Everyone at my job is unhappy and has been for some time. I have had no fewer than five colleagues contact me out of the blue to tell me they're hating their roles, and hate how leadership are running things. Usual stuff.
We had a colleague survey done about half a year ago. Worst scores we've ever posted on topics like contentedness, engagement with work, pay, etc. We're already paid well below market in our sector, which colleagues have raised for many years. We've had a pay freeze for three years. Leadership took the revolt away for FOUR MONTHS and came back today with 2.8%. Reported inflation in my country is 11%, and of course the reality is much worse than 11% in the real world.
Barely matching reported inflation by a quarter..? Four months worth of executive pay for a remco to fund those deliberations, for 2.8%..? We've had four people (~a quarter of the team) leave in two months, and nobody to replace them. Workload is continually increasing. Leadership won't sort our processes out even though they're not fit for purpose, which makes that additional workload next to impossible to actually manage.
Their excuse, that they made in the announcement (which goes to show they know it's shit), is that when they started deliberating the economic situation was much better. They literally state they started deliberating in March. Inflation even then was reported at 8%, so I don't know where the fuck they get off with that excuse when they come back with 2.8%… 'We wanted to dramatically underpay you then, but it turns out we did even worse because of how long it took us to agree'.
Just fuck off… What the fuck are workers expected to do with this sort of continual burdening on their shoulders…?