Morning manager meeting.
Due to inflation, 45 hourly employees asked for a raise. Non-Union if anyone wants to know.
They're getting it. $5.40 an hour. Good news, I thought for once. Then I went about my work day. I work in R&D as lead material scientist. HR and Finance aren't my purview.
Cue 20 minutes ago. Call from the HR head. He'd like it if I met with welders and press operators at 5pm when they go off shift. My day ends at 3pm.
Because people. He's a man, and I'm a woman. As a man, he doesn't want to be seen as a “boss that gives raises.” He's worried It'd ruin his image. Since I'm a woman, I can do the “soft work” of giving people good news.
I'm stumped, like what the hell?