Backstory, I was already working two people’s jobs during the pandemic because there was a bunch of layoffs prior to Covid. Our company got sold last year and it’s been a disaster, half of our team (I work in accounting) has quit in the past 4 months. But they haven’t replaced anyone, they’ve been just dumping work on my other two team members who are now working till midnight most days.
A few weeks ago, someone had put in their two-weeks notice. Our acquiring company, which exists in another state, flew out to our state and had everyone come into the office for a week (we have all been working remote since the pandemic) So I’m thinking, they’re going to listen to our grievances and hear us out to why we’re all quitting, right? Wrong, they pretty much popped their heads in once and said “let us know if you have any questions about anything” and bought us Panera a couple of times. Then, the new accounting manager popped his head in and said “Hey! Heard you were interesting in AR! Nice man…” to which I responded “…oh yeah?…” since I had never said that to him and then he goes “Yeah! Great! We’ll get you set up for training soon!” Shortly after, the person who is currently working this position comes in to tell me not to take her work because the new software is a disaster, no one is giving her any training, and there’s several people she has to get approval from to get anything through.
So I ask if I can speak with my new manager in private and voice my concerns. He claims he can get someone from the temp agency to fill my role immediately so I can take the new one. And yeah… sure… it’ll be rough at first because they won’t know all the nuances of my current role, so it’ll be hard in February…and, well, March too… probably April… maybe even May. And hey! I might even get a raise “somewhere down the line”! I also disclosed I was already so far behind in this month’s work because this translation has been a catastrophe. His response was basically “so what? Don’t even worry about it, who cares if people are reaching out to you asking for payment, no biggie!” I told him no the next day and that they would need to hire someone else to fill that position.
The following week the woman who is quitting told me she had an interesting conversation with someone who has been working there a long time. She basically said that this company has a tradition of dumping work on other people when workers quit and never hiring anyone to replace employees. People work long hours and weekends trying to get stuff done.
Fast forward to today, I get a call from the manager to see if I had given anything thought to the new role, otherwise they have to start looking for a replacement, even though I said no two weeks ago. I told him I had not changed my mind, but he still pushed and said he could get me an immediate raise. I said I would think about it and let him know tomorrow. Then, I get an email from him, subject reading: “Now here’s that award” with the body of it telling me what a great job I had been doing and an award for $500 that will be submitted to the CEO, which is pretty obviously in lieu of a pay raise.
Anyways, I’ve been applying to other jobs and speaking with recruiters in the past week anyways. I just wanted to share to say don’t let companies pull bullshit on you. Go find employment elsewhere, let them fire you and collect unemployment, don’t slave your life away for some shitty job.