Working at a small family locksmith company, only 3 employees are not family. 10 employees total. Been there 2 years, I have seen 6 people leave the company in those 2 years.
Everyone in the company is doing the work load of 2-3 people at this point. I have reached my breaking point and have become aware of way the company is being ran due to the extra stress.
1- Owners/Leadership are working as employees when they should be leading. They don’t hold themselves accountable for their actions. Go back and forth on policies they put in place. Lash out at employees and try to push their stress on to us. One owner is always negative and toxic the other is manipulative and tries to creat a false sense of positivity. They don’t stay true to any values at this point because of built up stress. They try and throw basic benefits such as medical, dental, paid time off, yearly retainer bonus (200$) a year, in our faces when when we bring up not being happy at work. They have a policy where Charge on Account Jobs are not paid to employees until the company gets paid, leaving us wait 2-3 month to get paid for those jobs. It’s a commission based pay rate, 30%. No base salary, no incentive bonus for making sales, No yearly bonus.
Tried taking away said benefit of PTO, until a day ago when I told them I was leaving they gave it back to everyone. Favoritism for all family when it comes to work load or time off. The family members do less work and are not held to the same standards as non family employees.
I’m barely making enough money to just pay bills and stay alive, while taking on extra work and getting paid the same for it.
But now I’m at the point to where I told them I quit and they came back with can we just give you a Leave of Absence to think if you really want to quit. They asked what they can do to make me stay. I know deep down they are not capable of change as I have seen past employees try to make changes and fail. Should I stay and try to fight them over their issues like others in the past and hope I get through to them or say fuck it and move on from the their bullshit?