To preface this a little, I do love the place I work for and am treated very well. I work in the construction industry, but I also work very long hours. Around 65-90 hours a week. I love the people I work with which makes it even better. All I want is for my brother to at least enjoy who he works with. But sadly he only deals with his management over the phone ( he works from home taking calls from people trying to get permits to dig. ).
Yesterday was his 90 day review, and apparently he takes around 20-30 more calls than the average rep each day, and his accuracy is around 97 percent, so he’s doing very good. He thought he was gonna get around a $2 an hour raise from $15 an hour to $17 based off his performance. What they actually gave him was a fat fuckin slap in the face with a .25 cent an hour raise.
He desperately needs to go to the doctor for a checkup for some health issues, and he needs to go get new glasses as well. But they “ don’t have the availability “ to let him go do that stuff on top of not paying him jack shit. And the company he works for wonders why they can’t keep people.
His poor soul was so crushed when I talked to him about it all. He works 40 hours a week only to make enough to feed himself and pay rent. He doesn’t get to keep shit to himself. It’s so heartbreaking to hear.
I myself didn’t get to a good place workwise until the past 6 months, and a big part of that is that I’m a convicted felon. That’s a whole different story though, but I sympathize with him.
People need to be able to live, not slave away and have nothing to show for it. And even than to not be absolutely insulted on top of it. Fuck these big corporations who don’t give a single fuck about the one thing that keeps them in business.