A bit of a background:
Recently, I decided to switch career paths from administration and management and into a more data-centric analyst role. I started taking part-time classes at a local college and self-studying SQL and Power BI in my free time. After receiving a job offer from this company as a business analyst, I thought I really had made my efforts worth it. However, things immediately went downhill the moment I started.
I was thrown into the job and assigned multiple duties including:
- Warehouse receiving
- Warehouse shipping
- Inventory management
- Miscellaneous IT tasks
- Attending meetings as early as 7:30 AM and as late as 9:00 PM without any overtime pay
My manager told me that in order to be a good analyst, I had to “get my hands dirty” and involve myself in the process. While I normally agree with this, I received very little training and was expected to be able to handle shipping and receiving processes in under a week. Employees in the warehouse would often take time off, and I had to cover some of them with very little experience (the shipper had over 20 years of experience and still makes mistakes, think about what it is like from my perspective).
On top of all of this, I was expected to take responsibility for tasks that were assigned to previous workers that have left, with basically no training or context. This includes a duties refund of an order that occurred over 6 months ago, well before I came here.
If any of you are business or data analysts at this point, you might be wondering, what the fuck was the job description?
90% of what I have been doing at this company had nothing to do with the job description given. I was told I would be given a slightly below market average wage because I didn’t have as much experience, but I never received proper training on analysis tools. I essentially taught myself programs like Power BI and how to do basic queries in SQL format and DAX, without proper support from the company, meaning I learned things on my own time outside of work without additional pay.
I had many conversations across departments in this company, and their positions are the same. Constantly people are assigned roles that have nothing to do with them, while they’re given very little training as to what to do. The procurement manager was tasked with spending several hours a day training the new receiver, a quality control engineer was doing warehouse work, etc. All this extra responsibility and people were not compensated for additional work.
Now for the infuriating part. The company takes away $6 per paycheck (equally $12) a month for social fees. However, according to people in the company, they did not have many events for more than a year and a half (obviously due to the pandemic). However, they kept taking this $12 a month off everyone’s pay and the money was just accumulated there. According to the procurement manager, it is about $35,000. This kind of money, just sitting there depreciating in value. The worst part about this is that people in this company make vastly different amounts of pay, and some of the production laborers make pretty much minimum wage. Despite this, they still deduct this amount from their pay.
To me, this is absolutely absurd. The company makes tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue on a daily basis. Depending on valuations that I can see, it is worth anywhere from 50 to 100 million dollars. Yet, they cannot shell out a couple thousand every once in a while for company events.
This is a google drive link of a censored version of my paycheque that removes information like my legal name and address, as well as the company’s name.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7whpxn-RBX0vMU3IgYPlqR306CQpErm/view?usp=sharing
Today, I basically just quit without notice and walked out the door. My mental health was severely deteriorating and I was overworked like crazy.
I am glad that I left this company and I hope that in my future job search, I actually pay attention to Glassdoor reviews.