Maybe it was a shitty question for me to ask out in the open in front of people. Public education uses a ton of high paid consultants to operate several corners from capital projects, to food service, to curriculum, etc. Anyway, I was frustrated because well, several projects have gone $500,000 to $1,000,000 over budget which impacts the rest of our budgeting, and ultimately students and teachers. This consultant probably makes 5-6x what I do and works 1/10th the time. He was upset that I asked and kept asking me what my experience is building a home, a building, renovating buildings, etc. to undercut my question. Thing is, at the end of the day, think he knew that he should have kept this high paid person on a tighter leash with their project management, but just couldn’t admit it to me in front of others. One of those days where…
Month: February 2023
I am absolutely sick of working for companies that have clearly incompetent leaders. They hire employees en masse with grand promises of work/life balance, great pay, great benefits, and a supportive and development focused culture. Months into the role, you get a clear picture that employees are not happy. They're overworked, underpaid, and walked all over by management. Bonuses/raises don't exist because of whatever excuse that year, and corporate strategy/policies are just completely fucked to the point any front line employee can confidently predict the negative outcomes. Despite all this, nothing happens to the executive leadership and all of the company problems are blamed on “underperforming employees”, who are then let go for missing unattainable goals. Those that survive the culling complain about being overworked as the company is now short staffed, but management deflects with “no one wants to work anymore”. This trend needs to fucking stop. Front line…
I want to bring up the issue because now I’m feeling to not care to keep family peace because I’m feeling taken advantage of and would like a compensation for all of the money that I should have been given for the work I did in the past. However, at the same time, I agreed to the initial very low pay. So, I understand that maybe I can’t do anything now since my new-experienced/unaware self agreed to the payment. Thoughts? Thank you very much.
I work at a dance studio so my shifts are in the evenings. We’ve had winter storm warnings for tonight in my area and other jobs are even urging their employees to leave work early to beat it. I text my boss asking if we’re still having classes tonight expecting her to cancel them, but she replied saying “classes are still on for tonight. Sorry you’re worried”. All us teachers are actually really close with her as we were friends before she started her own dance studio, so we were expecting her to actually care about us. She had every teacher texting her worried about the weather, yet she refused to cancel classes claiming “we have students and parents counting on us”. It’s fucking dance class, not like it’s something important. She even started to act like an asshole and tried to make us feel shitty for not being willing…