https://imgur.com/a/Fk9ZnnP

This has soo happened where I am employed, I think I’ll tell them to shove it up their butt. I have personally watched such greed and lack of integrity spread like cancer. Maybe time to retire!

I told the HR lady to F off six months ago. No paycheck for six months.
I'll probably have to get another job for a few years. Six month vacation has been nice

I’m really happy I work for outstanding people. We pay more than a fair wage for what people do. We take damn good care of our employees as without them, the company fails to exist.

You are fortuanite. My company babied new employees because the turnover rate was so high. Treated the old timers like crap. I'm so glad I'm gone.

An awful lot of incompetent higher management around these days

I think these types of actions tend to find a balance over time.

My company shifted staffing from 4 technicians per production line to 3.5 and tightened up on available overtime. Predictably, production numbers dropped off enough to the point of failing to make business plan.

We lost some experienced techs so downtime increased and lost new hires who started, didn’t like the grind vs pay and went somewhere else. People started to hate being at work so the available overtime stated going unfilled and the numbers continue to dtop.

Now, a few years later, they have realized the 4 techs per line is actually the minimum staffing and a pool of floating techs are needed as well, Overtime is opened back up as needed to staff the lines. They just jumped all technicians pay by a blanket 15% across the board and are adding a 2.5% inflation compensation increase next month.

In a semi free market, companies that play the minimum games tend to get a reputation for it and spiral into oblivion.

I had a bad experience where I was hired at a very decent rate.

One day, one of our tool vendors came in asking why I was still there. A few of my peers snickered as he explained that NO ONE lasts more than six months in my position. Sure enough, at exactly six months, I was laid off.

The observations from this experience...

I was hired for a specific task (without being told so). Once that task was done, so was I. Even with assurances of long term employment, HR lies just to get a hire.

This company had less than 100 employees. Very high turn over of shop personnel. Office guys have been there for decades.

You know it is a bad sign when their own delivery truck has "employees wanted" ad painted on it as part of the graphics.


Back to the OP...Another way of taking advantage of employees: one place I worked for would rather have mandatory OT, so that they wouldn't need to hire more people and pay for more benefits. This mandatory OT kind of masked the lower pay and lack of raises as the paycheck seemed good at the time.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
An awful lot of incompetent higher management around these days

Incompetent management is why you have incompetent workers aka non management.
Trickle down economy.

Spent the last 20+ years as a management consultant.

Working both private and public sectors. I’m so glad I left early; there’s no way I could work in the current environment in that field w/ F’d up travel, hr, and mgmt.

If anybody were to mention the words intersectional, DEI, etc I’d just bust out lmao.

My wife is still trying to wrap her head around “intersectional” being dropped in a meeting just the other day. She’s a very kind and generous person… But even she’s like WTF?

HR are pieces of excrement.

My wife applied for a job as an RN case manager. She has her BSN and 25 years of working ER/ Surgical & Medical units, and 16 years of Charge Nurse/Director of Nursing in LTC.

Goes for an interview. Gets a call back, 'we think you'd be really suited to the RN Unit Manager position, come in for another interview'. Goes in, meets with the DoN and HR. During the interview, she's told, 'well, with your experience, you'd be ideal as a FT overnight charge nurse on the floor. You'd have to work weekends and holidays tho.'

She told them to eat a bag of dicks. Lying sacks of crap. They were just 'bait & switching candidates' because they couldn't get anyone to take the shitty shifts. They still haven't found any RNs to fills their floor positions.