Look… I've been working at my call center job for well over 5 years. And I do mean well over. I fucking hate it but I'm really good at it. It's boring. It's annoying. And it's making me miserable. Which is why I decided to finish my degree at the beginning of the pandemic. I actually only have about 2-3 semesters left. The company isn't so bad. The work is mindless enough and they work with my course schedule. And the pay, I thought, was adequate. Plus tenure so nice bit of vacation time. Oh and health insurance is nice and so is remote work So I wanted to stick it out.
At first I thought I'd try and move to corporate in a department for my field. Then I was like fuck this company, I'll stay until I graduate. As I get more and more depressed and fed up, the sooner that timeline moves up. I have to stop myself from yelling I quit every fucking day I log in. I just had a pep talk with myself about how I need to stay until the end of May, save my money, choose the best paid internship for my field, see how much summer aid I'll have to supplement and then never look back.
Solid plan, right?
I made the mistake of checking our job postings to see if we're hiring (we almost always are) after suggesting the role to a friend. It's not a bad job really. And that's when I saw, right there in the fucking title, that the company is hiring new associates for less than $2 less than I make. It took years of company wide pay audits and annual raises for me to get this pay and you mean to fucking tell me you're just hiring people in at the same fucking rate just about?
I'm not mad at new associates making this much. I love it for them. But I've never felt so fucking insulted in my life. How fucking unvalued is my labor? Any fucking idea I had about sticking it out is gone. I am beyond done. I'm throwing my application just about everywhere looking for a position that pays significantly more than I make and is remote. I'll stick a call center job out for 3 months at another place. I don't want to spend one second more at this gd job.
Folks keep talking about a great resignation and how people don't want to work. This is not how you keep people who want to work. What the fuck do I look like staying now that I've found this out. Like do they think we are stupid? You want more employees? Cool. You're gonna need at least one extra on top of that.
Fuck this job