I’m a foreman at a tree company that maintains the trees around power lines. I’m paid $21 an hour to be a foreman, to trim the trees, and maintain an CDL and drive the trucks. Thats technically 3 positions at this company. I’m the best in my area if not company wide, I’m fast careful and I cut trees properly. I’m also very passionate about my work as I want to get my arborist license and start my own company.
The people I work with could care less about what they do. So I feel I’m not compensated for the passion I put in my work and the amount of work I do. I out out 5x the production others do. The others sit in the truck and try to do as little as possible and don’t get told anything by our boss. I also have the boss’s brother with me who is paid as a tree trimmer gut he said he never will trim. He also doesn’t
5 hardly do anything. He told me he wants to move trucks because he’s trying to chill and not work. They holler at me to slow down because I’m making them look bad but that’s just how I work because every time I’m in a tree I’m trying to get better.
My boss is also lazy and makes probably $10-$15 more than me. He doesn’t get us supplies, ask if we need anything, tell people sitting or sleeping in the truck anything and also sleeps in the truck himself all day. Then he wants to try and rush me because I’m the best he has. We also were supposed to go to a new company with more money and benefits but my boss got an offer to stay for like $15 more an hour so he took it while the rest of us are stuck where we are with no extra compensation for staying so he looked out only for himself.
So should I just stop caring and go down to everyone else’s level? I just don’t wanna be like that because I do care and I want to do a good job and be proud of my work.