so first off I work in the funeral industry, I'm a licensed funeral director and embalmer but mainly a embalmer, my funeral director license is mostly for show, strictly I'm a embalmer(BOH)
I work for a local funeral home and we recently got bought out by a corporation, the owners were just tired of running the business, wanted out, kids didn't want to take over, so had no choice to sell. one day we had a meeting and I honestly thought we fu**ed up somehow and just didn't know, we went into the chapel and all of a sudden were informed of the takeover by our new corporate overlords. at first everything seemed fine, but more and more of their corporate goons lurking around like occupied france and keep showing up, things have been feeling different and the incentives we've been getting for 1. first call removals after hours, 2. holiday bonuses and other small incentives are out the door because they aren't “compliant with labor laws” which I can guarantee you is grade A sneaky corporate bulls**it for they don't want to pay overtime. now the ones who were there for 10 years plus and since the funeral home started have left because the new regime didn't want to prorate their tenure or vacation time (surprise surprise) and now are just unloading all the responsibility on the rest of us of course with no new incentives. I can't stand it anymore I'm honestly one foot out the door and can't take it anymore, I came to this place to get away from the corporate big business b/s and somehow followed me there.
this is the problem with the funeral industry, once nice kind, humble family/single location owned funeral homes are slowly being acquisitioned by big corporate giants and are just smearing their corporate feces, upping prices, funneling all the workload on care centers and embalming facilities and making funeral directors nothing more than used car salesmen with state issued licenses. it just sickens me that we have to work so hard, for a profession that's so demanding and yet watching what made it good slowly being snuffed away. I almost want to call it quits completely for the funeral industry all together but I really do enjoy embalming and restorative arts.