Antiwork

As the title says essentially. I work as head lifeguard in my facility (head guards have more responsibilities, such as managing lifeguard breaks, testing pool chemicals, dealing with incidents, have extra certifications, etc.) and as a result we get paid an extra $2 an hour compared to regular lifeguards. There are about 10 Head guards on staff, and 40 lifeguards. Anyways one of our bosses who is unsatisfied with our work ethic (ie doesn’t like when we take breaks for ourselves or give the guards breaks) and micromanages us to the point of watching cameras of us when she’s not in the office is now threatening to lower the pay of certain head guards down to the lifeguard salary ( a $2 an hour pay cut). I don’t know if I’m just venting or if there is something as a staff we can do about this.

Disclaimer: this is a burner account so my employer can't trace. The company I work for is a large (4k employee) R&D consulting company. The management structure is very flat: 1 EVP, 4 GMs, 20 Directors, 60ish Managers. The management structure, metrics, and culture reflects a 'turn the crank' type of operations; all employee hours are logged and management very closely monitors operational efficiency metrics like % time on project vs non-project down to each employee each time card. There is micromanagement of budgets, forecasts, strategies, etc from all levels of management. This creates an unhealthy underpinning of a lack of empowerment and trust for any front-line manager or individual employee. This approach is not uncommon to manufacturing or gov't contractor sectors. The core issue is we are an R&D services consulting company. No two projects are identical, and as such our SOPs are high level policies, not instructions. Being…