I'm currently working for a branch of a really large company. This branch used to be great, the top performing and best employee rating, all that jazz. But management let that all get into their heads and started to treat people poorly. Denied promotions for arbitrary reasons while still expecting them to do the work. Pitting employees against each other in reviews. Taking on more and more clients while not increasing headcount. And so people started to quit, and by the time someone new was hired, two more had quit, and so on. Eventually it got to a stage where there was never any training or resources available for long term employees as they were all given to new hires, and because you couldn't get training, you couldn't get promotions. And so the cycle kept going. That was a year ago, and I kept holding on on the chance things…
Just the title. Its day 3 now and I'm just so stressed already and my body is already hurting.
Coming off the post yesterday asking if everyone really makes over 115k…I have so many questions. Post after post of people saying they make 32, 35, 38, 41k, often that they have for years. What professions are these? I get that I have always lived in high cost of living areas, but I am curious to see what roles people have that pay this. Very few posters with these low wages actually posted what they do. Service or part time work would make sense but the stats don't add up if its full time, non service work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median wage for workers in the United States in the second quarter of 2022 was about $1,041 per week or $54,132 per year (assuming 52 weeks of work per year). Wages were 5.2% higher than a year earlier. What's considered a good salary in…
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A More Honest Take On Return To Office
Why do companies want people back in the office? Study after study shows that working from home can lead to more efficiency and higher quality work. Here are 3 possible reasons Downsizing (Layoffs) Collaboration Paranoia
There are so many things about my career that make me angry. I don't feel like I have ANY control over most of it. A lot of failures happened for petty and vindictive reasons. Yes, I played a part but why do I have to get punished so much?? Every office I've been in feels like one of those mouse mazes. How have you addressed anger about your career?
TLDR: my old boss called my new boss and asked why I opened an unemployment claim against them before I started working for my new job. Now my new job doesn't want to keep me. I worked for Company A full-time for over a year. Company A decides they no longer can afford to keep me on as an employee and outsources my job to Company B which is a contract company. Company B agrees to hire me, potentially to return to Company A's facility and continue performing my role with Company A. In the meantime the expectation was I would work as a subcontractor for Company B, performing other roles as directed. Before I began working for Company B, as a fallback, I opened a claim through the state for unemployment benefits against Company A just in case things with Company B didn't work out. I did not complete…
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100% Commission
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed an uptick in 100% commission sales jobs I’m genuinely curious because I’m trying to feed my family and these people are shamelessly leading me on to all these zoom meetings for me to wait for the base rate and they’re like “BE YOUR OWN BOSS WORK YOUR OWN HOURS” It’s really discouraging
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New Hire Hijinks
So I work in a security monitoring / call center of sorts. My employers contract was terminated and a new security company took over, and is hiring new hires to the team at $27.50 while experienced operators are making $25 as the base wage (max $28 for people with years of tenure), while stringing us along with the “idea” of getting raises eventually, maybe.. some day. Morale has plummeted and many have quit for greener pastures. How can a company be this stupid? They've successfully turned the existing team against them in an incredibly short amount of time. What possible scenario could this actually work in their favor? Why not just raise everyone's wages at the same time? Myself and my coworkers are gobsmacked.