TL/DR: I left the military and entered the management world and was sickened by the management culture. My health deteriorated to the point I had to quit.
Caveat this was a few years ago during the height of the pandemic.
I served in the military for years did the NCO track left with plenty of awards and paid to have my resume put together well.
Got hired for a large national corporation, this is one that is everywhere. I worked in one of thier Distribution centers as a manager.
It was there I got to learn how bad it really is for workers in the Civilian world. Between Time on Task sliding pay scales, anti union training and performance tracking/repremanding, mandatory overtime for all, and trying to keep employees under stressful conditions. It was a huge strain to try to help my team.
What made it worse though was the mentality and the culture of the managers. Between them wanting to play good cop bad cop with employees to coerce them or being told in “training” by the depth head I should learn about my team members personal lives so I could use it to “motivate” them to perform better. Reminding them they have a newborn or baby on the way and if thier performance slacked they would be let go and it could make it difficult to care for thier child or pay thier rent. It disgusted me to my core.
Had a new hire who didn't tell me till after he started that he was colorblind and couldn't spot the difference in the label colors to know when we were changing stores. This caused him alot of difficulty and he was not able to perform well. He also didn't have a formal education so struggled with some of the other complex tasks. When I tried to talk to my boss about making acommadations and moving him to another team that didn't rely on labels, I was denied and told that “the great thing about that employee is this is the best job he is ever going to get so if I trained him well he will never leave.”
The business steam rolled over all new hires and no matter what I tried I couldn't get them to slow down enough to retain my employees I had no one there who had worked there longer than a year. After I had several workers leave I was investigated for if I was at fault for why employees were quitting.
The stress and toll on my physical and mental health eventually put me in the hospital several times in just a few weeks. It aggravated my injuries from the army to the point I had to quit and go on full disability.
That place didn't even care the day I had to leave. Aside from HR no one had a thing to say to me.
I hope someday that place can unionize its the only way corporation will ever be made to take care of thier employees.