This just happened:
- Wife was promoted to a managment position in the company 1 year ago.
- Was given a list of things they wanted her to accomplish.
- She not only checked off ever item on the list, but exceeded the expectations, sometimes by 10,000% and way faster then they expected.
- Told weekly by her boss how impressed they are, and how great she is doing, and how much of an asset she is.
- A meeting with the management team was held a month ago (mid August). Wife was not invited, despite being part of that team.
- Merit raises are given out every year, between 3% and 10% depending on performance, wife finds out yesterday (9/21/23) that she is only getting the 3%.
I’m more pissed then she is, and I don’t want to fight with her about it, but if it was me, I’d have quit on the spot.
Sounds like a bunch of stuff that should be added to her resume.
Either they’re giving bad evaluations to save on raises, or management is toxic and has unrealistic performance standards.
I agree on both points. Every time I’ve tried to talk to her about how mistreated she is at her job, we end up in a fight, so I’ve stopped trying. We don’t argue much at all, have been together 25 years, and next to no issues. But she feels that it’s just normal to be treated like crap at a job, and you just have to deal with it as it won’t be any better anywhere else, and may be much worse. The only job she ever had where she was treated well, and paid great got shut down for some tax fraud stuff no-one who worked there knew about. That doesn’t help her confidence in finding something decent.
You should* update her resume, shop around her resume, look at some job postings, and get her to talk to some recruiters.
Update her Linkedin too.
It’s one thing to talk about a theoretical possible new job that might be better. It’s another to present her with: “These companies will hire you at X% higher and their Glassdoor reviews are better than your company”
I was like that (comfy in my old job) and it wasn’t till I was confronted with job postings that were 50% higher pay that I was qualified for and at a better company that I realized I was underpaid and needed to switch jobs.
Edit:
* offer to or encourage her to. Maybe it’s a bad idea to go behind her back and update her LinkedIn and resume though you could still check out job postings and glass door reviews.
She needs to start acting her wage. Minimum raise, minimum effort.
A year into COVID they had an all hands where they congratulated us on exceeding our productivity goals after a year of WFH. Then they announced that everyone was gonna have to come back to the office, and that because a different OU screwed up and got their dicks sued off there wasn’t any money in the incentives budget and not to expect much in the way of bonuses that year.
Edit: ooh forgot to mention that a bunch of us pushed back because we didn’t think it was safe yet, we got overridden by upper management, then after we came back in our state set a record for daily new COVID cases and daily deaths. It swept through the office, a bunch of my coworkers got really sick and one lady’s husband died.
I wonder if she can sue them… like they forced everyone into the office and so everyone got COVID and that lady’s husband literally died… that’s pretty fucking horrible. There should be a way to “get back” at them (so to speak) for being so fucking negligent that someone literally fucking died.
I agree that there should be a way, but there absolutely is not.
There should be. Could get creative. Eventually the law recognized take home exposure duty for asbestos product sellers. The problem with going after the employer is that any action for injuries derivative from an employee-employer relationship is limited to the exclusive jurisdiction of workers’ comp., which absolutely does not cover take-home exposure.
There is always negligence, though. Everyone is liable for the foreseeable, actual harms of their conduct, or said another way, every person owes a duty to all other persons to use reasonable care to avoid causing injury. I guess that claim would get hung up on the medical proof of causation; how could a doctor say the work exposure was the one that caused the disease when the whole state was setting records. Maybe on the right facts, as is always the case for new precedent.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
Oof thats really bad. Was there at least pizza?
They offered to cater lunch and then didn’t buy enough burgers for all of us. It was an all-hands meeting and they know how many people worked there, but they somehow thought that only about half of us would show up to the meeting we were all required to attend in person.
Goddamn dude, can you tell us 1 thing they did right?
I’m not OP but I’m sure they generated significant value for their stockholders.
They paid me really well for my first job out of college when I didn’t know anything about anything.
Well the CEO just had a massive panic attack yesterday and said there’s no way we’re going to finish this major project in time and the company is now ruined. The company is only one person. It’s me.
… Do you need help?
What’s the project friend
They fired the social butterfly of the group. He was always good company. Most of us in the office were pretty quiet people but he knew how to bring us out of our shell. He would often organize lunch so we can all hang out together but there was a lot less of that when they got rid of him.
Why they let him go?
I’m not 100% sure but based on my observations and chats with him, his responsibilities grew and I’m guessing he wasn’t meeting the company’s expectations.
Former employer Introduced a bonus system that reduced the amount of the bonus for everyone for each costly mistake. Each bonus check came with a slip of paper that named the department, the mistake, and the amount deducted.
Boss couldn’t understand that attaching an arbitrary name, shame, and punishment scheme took away all of the bonus’s power to make everyone happier.
Limiting how many positive yearly reviews managers are allowed to give out. Not M$ but glad it’s finally in the news. The employees find out how the system works fast, no matter how secret they tried to keep it.
Furlough team for one week
“Remember those 3 years of 100% remote work during the COVID pandemic, where we broke record renevue 3 years in a row? Yeah, we need you back at the office twice a week. Why? Because we said so.”
Sure, boss.
I have a few complaints about my employer but I’m glad this isn’t one of them. Someone actually asked if we were planning to do an RTO during the quarterly town hall yesterday. Our CEO basically said, “We know there’s value to working in person, and that’s what I prefer to do, but here’s the thing: we have offices in 5 states and employees in 46 states. We’ve been able to recruit the best talent in the country because of our willingness to recruit outside our footprint. Companies that have mandated an RTO are not doing well. We’re not in that position and we have no plans to change our work policy.”
Try four days a week.
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They hired full time the contractor who brought down prod 3 times in his 6 month contract. I updated my resume that very day. Edit:spelling
I was once hired by a company to investigate what their front end team is doing and why. They had great ideas with a great implementation. I wrote a report that their front enders are awesome :) I hope devs got some heat off their backs, they were doing really good stuff.
Previous job. They sold off our main product in one industry so they could focus on the more demanding other product for another industry. The first product end users actually wanted. The second product, end users did not want it, but the manufacturers did… because it gave them all that wonderful spying on you data to sell. Then the company died during the shutdowns. The stupid apps they gave people didn’t entice anyone to use them.
I used to work in an animation studio, and one day the boss came down and said he had a zoom meeting booked with some LA producer who wanted to hear a pitch from us, and he needed ideas. So the whole room of animators all started pitching up ideas and it went super well, and after about an hour we had this idea that had us rolling on the floor that we all loved and the boss seemed really happy. So he went upstairs and got on zoom, but didn’t close the door so we could all hear him talking from our desks. He didn’t mention our idea at all, just pulled something out of his ass that sounded awful, which if it had been accepted we’d have to work on for the next year or so. Luckily they weren’t interested, but yeah we didn’t really pitch ideas with much gusto (is at all) after that.
Alright, bucko, let’s hear that pitch!
Haha I was being vague 'cause I still hope one of us will do it one day, but whatever! So we had this recurring main character who was like a big doofus type, and our idea was to have an alien invasion thing where the aliens come to try and steal Earth’s resources, but the twist was that they really needed carbon dioxide for whatever alien reason, so their plan was just to remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere and then be on their way. Our idiot hero would set out to stop them, while everyone else in the world was like “no!”
There was some other character-specific stuff that wouldn’t really make sense out of context, but that was the broad idea. Maybe he thinks that everyone trying to stop him is an X-files type conspiracy, that kind of stuff.
Removing all the CO2 would be catastrophic
Good God, the conspiracy has even reached Lemmy!
I’ll never forget the day they wheeled the beer fridge out of the office.
Docked an hour of our pay because, after we’d caught up on all of our tasks and had no chores or customers to handle, we played a bit of cards in the gift shop office to kill a bit of time. Corporate didn’t like that we weren’t doing stuff, despite the fact that we had literally nothing else to do, so they retroactively took away an hour of our pay.
I’ve already emailed the labor board about this since, looking into it, pay can only be docked before the time is worked, not after.
You were also being “engaged to wait” if you had nothing to do.
You weren’t free to go home, so you were on the clock.
Can playing a game of cards that you can drop in a second be reasonably said to not be “engaged to wait”? I mean, they were literally waiting with cards in their hands for something to happen but nothing did. It’s not like they had left the premises, were unreasonably distracted or negligent.
I think you misunderstood.
“Engaged to wait” simply means that you aren’t free to leave and must be paid. If you’re required to be at work, you need to be paid - even if you’re killing time playing cards.
I see, but the other commenter didn’t say that anybody left, that they were only playing cards.
Yes. I’m arguing that denying their pay is illegal.
I’m still confused, then
I think you’re agreeing with me.
I’m saying it’s illegal to deny them their pay because they were required to be at work. “Engaged to wait” basically means “Having nothing to do, but still on the clock.”
If they showed up to work 20 minutes early to play cards or we’re playing cards during their lunch break, then they’d be “waiting to be engaged” which wouldn’t require payment because they’re free to leave.
Told everyone that they needed to be in the office a minimum of three days a week. Everyone lost their shit and now they’re grumpy and combative all the time. Used to be a chill place to work.
