Just give us more of the value for your one existence on earth, surely we’ll be more generous and not take as much value as possible, like we’ve done at every previous opportunity. Just work harder slave…
The stories here are crazy.
I’ve seen it (not personally, but observing) at the higher end of paid professionals too, like doctors/dentists. Outstanding work, treated like cogs, squeezed harder and harder. In one instance, the local monopoly who bought their group out literally committed fraud.
Come to think of it, everyone I’ve known working corporate got screwed.
…Feels like things can’t go on like this.
Too bad there isn’t anything else to do but keep going like this until it ends the world.
So, 30% of people are basic fucking rubes.
I did a massive project back five or so years ago. Put in a lot of work, and since the work is something I’ve done for 20 years, the work was flawless.
I got a one time bonus.
The same year I didn’t get a cost of living increase. And every year I did get one since then, it’s been half or less of inflation.
Everyone is treated this way at my company. They recently installed AI-based Spyware on all computers that takes regular pictures of the screens and monitors all clicks and mouse movements. I guess everyone is demotivated, so this is how they are handling that. Few people know about this, it was done secretly.
I will never work hard for these people again. I don’t think I could even if I did try at this point. There’s zero trust, and a pattern of exploitation.
Same. Had a supplier unexpectedly close down. The company makes medical devices, and the design on some components was quite old. We’re talking hand drawn designs, no CAD files. I got new sourcing for roughly 500 components. Long hours, saved the company from having any production stoppages. I busted my ass and kept the multi-million dollar per day revenue generation production line going. As a thank you for my efforts, I got some points equivalent to like $500 on a company incentive site where you can get gift cards and shitty TVs and household goods. Annual review came up. 2.5% raise. Fuck right off.
As a thank you for my efforts, I got some points equivalent to like $500 on a company incentive site where you can get gift cards and shitty TVs and household goods.
This sounds like a parody you’d see in fiction, but here we are.
I bet the poor souls who made that site were underpaid, too.
Cuck. Except the cuck gets a chair.
Maybe the company incentive site has them?
Good job not being a mark again!
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
When I first graduated, I worked for a series of small start-up companies. Most of them ended up failing, which is normal for a small company. But, at least when I was working hard there I was given stock options so if the company had done well, I could have shared in the success.
I’ve always wondered why that isn’t more common. I guess the answer is that some people are willing to work really hard even if they’re not given a slice of the ownership of the company. I never understood that. If I own part of this startup, I’ll work hard to make sure it succeeds because then I’ll get rich too. If you’re just paying me a salary, I’m fulfilling the terms of my contract and that’s it.
I literally saved my company twice. We were a small company providing contract programmers to a huge cable company (rhymes with Bombast), producing their mobile apps for them for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. When I started, we had just lost the Android gig because of the sheer ineptness of our offshore team (ironically enough, the gig was given to InfoSys who managed to do an even worse job). We were about to be shitcanned completely because we unable to produce a working TV guide-type application for Blackberry, thanks to the fact that no built-in control for Blackberry was able to handle a moving grid like a TV guide app requires. I produced probably the best mobile app I’ve ever written because I had experience with using Graphics classes for Java and was able to write an entirely owner-drawn control for this.
Unfortunately this was in 2011 as Blackberry was going through its death throes, so this really achieved nothing other than making Bombast want to keep paying us to stay around. A year later we faced getting shitcanned again because we were way behind schedule on the iOS app, thanks to an estimate that I had nothing to do with (our company very intelligently never involved actual programmers in these schedule estimates). I spent an entire week literally living in the Bombast building, coding all day and most of the night, sleeping a couple of hours a night in my George Costanza setup underneath my cubicle desk. We barely made the release schedule and Bombast kept us on again. The vulture capitalist who originally funded us had been ready to stop operations and fire everybody for some time, but this was put on hold.
Shortly after this, we were acquired by a west coast tech giant and us programmers were all laid off. The C-suite got millions in stock options, and I got … a very nice letter of reference when I applied for my school bus driver job. I’m thankful at least that I never had to deal with AI.
Such a mark.
The work environment, for the vast majority, in the USA simply sucks shit. It’s basically, work until you croak.
This is so 'Murican
In civilised countries, we see the way you grind yourselves into dust for the benefit of people who despise you and we see it as an illness
It’s a societal illness. Most of us are just paid slaves at this point. We can’t survive without the paychecks from these awful employers.
A single medical bill can break most working class families here. If you try to tell your employer you’re not happy, you end up being seen as ungrateful - you’ll be the first to be laid off in the next wave.
We’re not allowing this, it’s being done to us. And if we love our families, we will continue on.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
The greatest trick capitalists ever pulled was convincing the world that hard work pays off.
Never work more than you are paid. No company will ever reciprocate. They’ll just take your labor and give you a token “reward” worth almost nothing.
I saved a hotel chain millions during an outage. I got $1,000 bonus.
The second time, I got a pat on the back and no raise that year.
Fuck corporations
Bonuses are bullshit because they don’t touch your salary, and they get taxed extra. When I got mine, I was far more insulted than happy. Same situation as you, they didn’t give me a raise that year.
Where do they get taxed extra? To my understanding, it’s considered regular income in Canada and the US.
The US handles it in an incredibly stupid way. Bonuses typically get a larger amount withheld as tax and the government pays you back when you calculate your total income at the end of the year.
When my huge, multinational company announced one year of total grind for everyone, they said there would be rewards to make up for it.
Fast forward one year and the #1 top performer received… a diner with the CEO. And nothing else.
I wish I was joking.And this is why you should always consider any bonus structure that isn’t in writing to be completely worthless. If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen.
Ah yes, my leadership told us we’d all be managers.
A few months back, over half my team was laid off instead. They’re now replacing everyone with AI.
Technically, they’re managing to stay alive without a job now.
CEO probably has main character syndrome is he thinks his presence is enough of a prize.
At always was a scam.
We should start co-ops, and spread them out, to save everyone!
Would be funny if the CEO got the shits later.
Yeah cause they put eye drops in their water.
I can’t even enumerate the times I’ve saved my company from turning into dust
I was the single person responsible to ensure our database had no issues deploying by writing end to end tests that used real workflows, guess what ? surprise ! lots of database locking issues, issues with database transactions, issues with the application straight up crashing.
Fixed that days before our live deployment to a handshake.
TBH eventually they did give me a huge raise and at the moment of writing this I do think I’m being paid accordingly, but back then I was like damn shit is cringe.
I worked at one place working may ARSE off deploying a solution. Pulled all nighters regularly to get it done. I got a 20$ Xmas voucher to KMART. FUCKING KMART.
That was when I decided I’d work just enough to not get fired.
ugh
edit: I should note, it was a face food place (I was in IT), and they had a SHORT deadline, because they were selling the business and needed it brought into the 21st century. Before that, the stores were using a 25 year old BOH system.
And how many of us are working paycheck to paycheck still?
Wonder if that might correlate a tidbit.
I have one of these moments at every job. I always start overachieving, then something happens that turns me into a minimum effort employee.
At my last job I saved the company while working 70 hour weeks during crunch time, then on my performance review my boss blasted me for not being willing to work overtime, despite me having proof of his boss thanking me for all the overtime. When I objected he removed it and added three more false bad things instead.
At the previous job, I volunteered to come it at midnight to help the inspector process some units coming in late which needed to be shipped out by 2am. In a meeting of upper managers and me, I was congratulated for going above and beyond, and my direct manager said “Don’t thank him, he only did as he was required by his role.”
Brah, what a bunch of dicks. Hope you didn’t stay for much longer after these events.
Longer than I should have, unfortunately.
