Recently spoke to someone who took my job at my formal employer. Its sales and in finance to save you all from going through my posting history.
When i first joined the company the veterans told me how they used to all have secretaries, how the coffee machine was free, how friday's and the summer was. How they were all regularly brought out to expensive lunches or how the company covered golf client business expenses.
When I joined many years ago we had group secretaries, the coffee machines were gone, pizza parties and commissions were half of what the veterans had and you get bet your ass everyone worked at least 50 hours every week.
Now this new guy who took my job, has to pay out of his pocket the group secretaries, has to pay for his cubicle/office every month, coffee machines are back but now require money, still have pizza parties but his commission schedule requires like 30-40% more work just to get the sales commission I had.
Don't get me wrong, its much easier now selling the financial products and it would be crazy to compare the 90's or 2000's with the 2020's. But the bottom line is every month the guy HAS to sell in order to cover his expenses to continue to slave away for them. He's paying my former company money to able to sell their products…..
I'm not even mentionning health programs, retirement programs, wellness accounts, vacations.. dental…
Employers are making it just slightly worse for the next guy every next guy. This guy can't even quiet quit.
*** apparently this is now industry standard, and apparently they are all pretty much independent contractors now ***