I'm a licensed tradesman – here are the pertinent details
My foreman has his 2 weeks in already, called me aside to have a talk today.
I signed with this company 9 months ago taking a 15% hourly paycut to get performance bonuses.
The pitch: 90% of our jobs get a bonus. Your bonus is based on you beating the bidded hours, you get X % of the difference in hours you save!
The reality: Bonus calculations are split across the entire job including everyone in the crew (also including non-company employees IE temp workers (About 40% of the workers)) and are only calculated based on a hierarchy with whomever has the longest time on the site getting the bonuses first (IE whoever the office wants to have the bonus)
IE – (not based on actual time saved)
So after it became clear that the bonus scheme I signed on for was misrepresented, I've been just working a normal, professional 40-hour week.
No more breaking records. No more being the best.
So now, the foreman sees me, clearly annoyed with how things are and has his talk.
He just 'can't fathom why I would stick around” Leaning heavily on the idea of me quitting, even suggesting which companies I could go work for 'tomorrow'…
He says the replacement foreman is going to come and be rude and fire me for not doing my job.
But, that's just the thing – I AM doing my job. PERFECTLY fine. As a matter of fact, I'm not doing ANYTHING questionable at all…
So…assuming I just keep doing my job and refuse to quit if this new rude foreman gets loud…what recourse do they even have? Isn't this exactly what workers rights are? like…I work a job like a professional and I just…get to work the job…?!
Anyone have any insight/thoughts on this stuff? I'm thinking people just need to grow the F up and let people do 40 hours of work during the week at work.
I mean, sure, they can push unreasonable quotas, but if I just straight up keep on truckin, what's the possible endgame i'm not seeing?