Un Fucking Believable

- you are paid a weekly rate instead of an hourly rate, therefore working 60 hours a week, you'll get paid the same as working 40.

- if you work more than 5 days a week, 3 times out of 4 you will get paid for 5 days a week because you're on a flat weekly rate. Getting paid for that sixth day is a generous bonus from companies that actually decide to treat their workers well.

The last time I was hired on a job, then told I'd have to work six days a week without getting paid for an extra day, I told them I refused to work the extra day unless I was paid for it. Somehow I not only didn't get fired, but didn't have to work the extra day.

This salary adjustment, which was promised to all of us months ago, and was supposed to go through at the beginning of February, not the end (no they're not going to make up the difference, sorry the paperwork took so long, thems the breaks) has been talked up BY MANAGEMENT to the point where we were assuming something like 5-10% across the board, depending on our current position in the scale.*

Nope. LESSON FOR MANAGERS AND MANAGERS-TO-BE: NOT NAMING A FIGURE FOR UPCOMING, PROMISED PAY INCREASES BECAUSE YOU'RE EMBARRASSED AT HOW SMALL IT IS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A GREAT WAY TO WIND UP WITH A STAFF OF EXTREMELY DISGRUNTLED PEOPLE WHO ARE PRIMED TO QUIT.

There are now at least 4 people in my office who no longer give a flying fuck about what happens to this project. On the one hand I realize I'm being a little bitch and I have very little to complain about but on the other hand I'm just kind of AMAZED at how asinine this company is about treating personnel.**

* We're all kind of in the middle or low end of the range, which is published for all to see on our corporate intranet. Except for this one dildo who was so incompetent they finally had to transfer him to a cushier job closer to his house. No pay adjustment for him, he was already close to the maximum anyway.

** The kicker is that this adjustment goes in the system as a "merit-based increase" and thus in October, when we get our regular annual raise for being good boys, it gets subtracted from the total allowable amount of increase. The size of this adjustment being what it is, we've effectively been given our October raise in March, and have nothing else to look forward to for the forseeable future barring all of us leaving and getting better jobs elsewhere. Which I think we were all planning on doing anyway.

Once again, would I like cheese with my whine, yes I would, PAY YOUR PEOPLE COMPETITIVELY AND DON'T STRING THEM ALONG, HOW HARD IS THAT? I'm not even that mad about my situation, it's the engineering staff guys who work 10x as hard as the rest of us most days who got totally screwed by this and when they take off for greener pastures in the next month or so the whole project's gonna be fucked right in the ass. I am apparently the only person who sees this, besides the engineering guys themselves. I am this close to writing my boss an email asking him what the fuck he thinks is going to happen now that he's effectively told his most talented and productive team members exactly how much he cares. GRRRRR.

Death Ray Technician
Z-Gen Research Labs, Skull Mountain (Baltimore)
$18,000 plus company bike (sidecar optional) and false moustache

PAY YOUR PEOPLE COMPETITIVELY AND DON'T STRING THEM ALONG, HOW HARD IS THAT?

This rings a few bells for me.

And naive little me thought the ability to discipline this sort of person and reward people who do their work effectively were reasons to be pro-private sector and anti-union!

Obviously my deluded thinking is why I have not been able to get a regular job. (But then how do useless tools of this nature get jobs?)

xpost - through family.

yes please!

mookieproof: not necessarily, that was just a test.

My response to this in order to avoid a bloodbath was to tell them "Oh I'll just work an extra two hours every day!" Apparently this is "Fine."

My other response, that I am not emailing to my boss, is that there is now a Word document open on the other screen that starts with my name and ends with my military experience.

Should I put each of the three promotions I received since being hired on here as a separate bullet? How do you document that?

And yes, you should put education on the bottom.

BTW after sending us the email this morning asking for our "plan" to "manage to zero" our "lost time" by "April Fucking Fourth, R U Shitting Me" neither of our bosses came into this office today at all. They are afraid of our kung fu!