We had some big storms near where I live this past weekend, tons of trees fell. I happen to be in front of one that blocked the entire street, it was a site to see. This really nice guy runs up and starts taking photos, to which I say “insane, right!?” And he says and smiles “I know , really crazy. Taking pictures for my boss to show her why I’m late 10 minutes today” … then he sprints back to his car. Not sure that he was even aware of how sad and toxic that is. Completely ruined my day.
In May, we received an email from an employee no longer here, that we will be paid for holidays and to add them to our timesheets. We did and all timesheets were approved by manager and payroll. It is now nearly March of the following year that we were not supposed to get paid those holidays and we have to pay it back. I THINK THE FUCK NOT. They’re now saying that the original approval was too grey and interpreted incorrectly. Now, you’re going to start deducting a day’s pay every paycheck until you get your money back for not writing a policy correctly? I’m a college student, this is my rent and tuition you’re messing with. Hate that the law protects the employer in this when it’s literally their fault.
Imagine your compensation being completely stifled because your company won’t promote you to the next level. And the level of effort to reach the your salary range cap becomes increasingly more difficult to achieve (due to expectations to go above and beyond what you currently do, which happens to be a lot to begin with). Companies love exploiting and playing with employees livelihoods because of power dynamics. It’s disheartening when you put the majority of your daily life into a job, just to continually be fucked with by upper management. And for what? What’s it all for? Why mess with people who want to make money to live a decent life? I don’t get it.
