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I suspect that HR for the company I work for is not verifying employment. I work in IT. All offices in the building have voip phones. Also, all employees are given cell phones. About 4 years ago HR tried to return their voip desk phones to me saying “we don’t need them. We have cell phones.” I told them that they needed them because the company number is public and people that don’t have your company cell phone number might need to contact them. They relented and I had to plug them back in (smart enough to unplug but not smart enough to plug them back in). Now their desk phones sit on do not disturb and voicemail box not set up. Before that they would just send the call back to the receptionist who doesn’t have the authority to verify employment. I have lost so many opportunities for other employment elsewhere because of this. It doesn’t help that I am practically doing my job by myself, handling about 500 employees (most are in the field), only had 2 small raises over almost 10 years totaling $3, making $20/hr, no overtime allowed or risk writeup, took inclimate weather pay away because I can work from home but can no longer work from home regular even though most of my job is remoting into someone’s computer, no upward or sideways movement in the company, and no more raises because I’ve reached the ceiling. I feel like my only way out is to change professions and not look back. Won’t be giving 2 weeks notice when I do leave. Will wipe work phone and work laptop when I leave. Won’t be my problem at that point. Also, all employees contact me by call, text, email, walk into my office (former storage closet) or stopping me in the hallway as I’m running to someone’s office to press a button because most are too afraid to turn it off and back on again when it stops working. I just want to work somewhere with a ticketing system, more pay, more help, and regular raises. Company makes $1.5 million a day.