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
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.
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.
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.
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?
They paid me really well for my first job out of college when I didn’t know anything about anything.
I’m not OP but I’m sure they generated significant value for their stockholders.
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.
Last year we got a new GM. The first thing she said was “everyone is coming into work 5 days a week”. We lost every one of our senior staff in under a year and the rule was never enforced anyway. We’re back 2 and 3 office and home again now.
A few months after our company got acquired the new HR rep came to our city for a pep talk. The highlights of which included:
- We’re trying to jack up the value of this company as fast as possible at the expense of all of you
- If you like the idea of job security this isn’t the company for you
Those weren’t her exact words, of course, but that’s what everyone took away from it. I had already given notice at this point.
Been through that. Frantic home staging for quick resale. Meaningless kpi’s on every wall( so colorful tough) and Gambia walk where the suits get to pretend they care about your opinion once a month.
Good guy HR rep affirming what everyone is thinking and giving the green light to leave.
They cut our pay twice and promoted an inexperienced manager all the while telling us how much we sucked.
They killed the canteen. The food went from bearable to shit. That was their way of nudging employees to quit.
Lol I work for Unity
Oh boy, what can you tell us about how things are going there?
They routinely held an end of year meeting at the start of December that was a bit of a Christmas party. The meeting was always a show of appreciation that ended with the boss handing out bonus pay.
One year the boss finished thanking us for contributing to the busiest and most profitable year in company history. He then announced that all that big profit would be used to open up a new location! And for that reason nobody would be getting Christmas bonuses because the new location was really expensive. The next year he sold to a corporation who immediately fired most of the senior staff due to their high salaries, myself included.
I’ll never forget the day they wheeled the beer fridge out of the office.
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.
Furlough team for one week
Remove all the walls and cubicles. Get all the desks as close together as possible to create empty space.
Upper management told us to stop clocking in a minute early, then accused us all of time theft.
