I got hired at a new job in December, a lot of my job can be done remotely (I sell products that can be written on an appointment basis) but we still have a physical office because there is a walk in clientele. For a large portion of my time here I have worked from home, I had licensing to obtain amongst other things and then I got COVID (and very sick as well as my partner) so I had to quarantine for some time. Anyway, recently I’ve started going into work which is fine, but every time I go in my older coworkers berate me for not being there every day (not my bosses so I could care less). Shit like “oh good job 2 days in a row is quite an accomplishment.” I don’t get mad at them, I genuinely just feel bad for them, these people are…
As title says, Hired on with Pride transport expecting to be paid little over 15 an hour give or take, granted this was barely anymore then the job I left for it with more hours and the expectation I'd be away from home for weeks on end. I originally was very excited to seriously get into driving since I've had my cdl since I was 19, but first week was about as good as I could've asked for, trainer constantly told me that I shouldn't have even had to go through the training because of prior experience that couldn't be verified. But that's a story for another day. Well fast forward to last week, I got a non local trainer to get my training hours faster along with my pay stub for the prior week. I was told in training and even have an overview of how their pay worked…
I guess it's all a big mystery to the upper brass. Today there was a meeting with heads of different departments. And the director of the company's call center announced the results of an employee survey that recently went out. One of the biggest gripes listed in the survey was ''below market compensation,'' which explains why the turnover rate is higher than usual. The head of this department then went on to say that she doesn't understand why this perception exists given that she checked the national average for this type of work, and apparently our company is “more than competitive” by that standard. Nobody (who was allowed to speak in the meeting) questioned this idiotic notion. My head almost exploded when she uttered these words. Seriously, NATIONAL fucking average?? We're located in freakin' California, where the cost of living is insane and gallon of gas is $5 in some…
