My partner, whose been a supervisor to one employee, handled many tasks that created the identity for this brand and has found itself in a very tough situation. The job being fully remote (we reside in CA) and having employees all in different time zones reporting had always put a lot of pressure on working all hours of the day and night. The last six months the company has gotten a bit flipped upside down with 6 executive roles terminated, and 2 high-level execs terminated. A promotion has been in line for 6 months but the good ole moving the goal post has been at play for a while.
Now my partner has absorbed one of the executive roles and is overseeing 5 employees now. My partner's mental health is absolutely shot at this stage. They were thinking a promotion or a significant bump in pay could at least help but this has all been denied by the new high-level exec and is only looking at a 5-10% bump with all these new expectations. However, the new expectations have become so unrealistic as to what has to get done or else consequences arise and everything falls on my partner's shoulders.
Is there any way out of this with unemployment as my partner looks for a new job? I feel awful for them and trying to help provide guidance. Oh forgot to add the new exec bragged in private about a former employee they had who they worked so hard they ended up having issues with their hand and had to go on medical leave and was proud of it….