I’ve been with my company for 8 months. I’m the only one who knows how to do my job with my skill set while I have a college degree under my belt. I have asked for help with my tasks by training another so in case of emergencies or vacations, that hasn’t been done and probably won’t occur any time soon). A few months ago they hired fresh faced 18 year olds to do some very basic stuff (they communicate with our clients and dealerships on relaying messages to upper management, essentially messengers for the company). One of them was blabbing about making so much and with no care mentioned their salary. They make $10,000 more than me. This was brought up with management and they decided to give me a raise but didn’t explain much of the details, until today when I claimed that I didn’t see any changes…
Author: Olivia
I'll try to be short because I'm texting from my phone. The company I work for suffered a huge hit past year because of the increasing energy price in Europe. We are a hight tech R&D company, and we run multiple labs and a clean room, which consumes a lot of electricity. Also, labor is very specialized (physicists, engineers, scientists, etc.), which drives the cost even higher. With the war in Ukraine and the rising energy price, the company had to shut down some research lines and lay over a significant number of employees. It's was a hard decision, but seeing the numbers, there was no alternatives, it's was either that or bankruptcy. My research was discontinued, and I've seen very bright colleagues being let go, and it was distressful. I was spared and allocated to a different project. Fast forward to last week. I went to visit one of…
So it's been playing on my mind for a long time but my company closes at a set time but then the next shift is less than 11 hours away which means if we are closing, we can't then be scheduled on the open. In the past, it is negated by putting people on a mid shift or a week of early/late shifts. I've discussed it in the past but it seems to be then some other poor person gets screwed and it's a never ending cycle. I understand whistleblowers have immunity but who on earth do I report this to because it's not exactly fair on the staff who get forced this way.