• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world
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    We just want everyone here to ask themselves “can I do more for the company”.

    We’re a big family here.

    Overtime isn’t required, but we really encourage it.

    Here is your bonus this year, thanks for your hard work (bonus is literally less than yearly inflation).

    And other fun company bullshit that we get to experience.

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      3 months ago

      But think of the free, cheapest pizza around you’ll get to share with all your colleagues once a year! A $1 slice for everyone, yay! We really care about you!

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    I, as professionally as I could, laid into an interviewer recently.

    Spent the first 15 minutes gassing up this company “x growth over y years, we have z offices across n countries, we did a bajillion in revenue and were just getting started. So what’re you looking for for a salary?”

    I responded "wow, it sounds like you guys are doing really well. Considering what I bringing to the table, market averages, and the fact that if sounds like you all are doing quite well I’d say a ballpark of 10 to 12 thousand a month makes sense.

    Guys face dropped. He countered with 60k.

    “Alright dude, listen, you just made me sit through 1t minutes of you telling me how much money this company has and how dominant they are in the field, and you’re going to legitimately give me the lowest offer I’ve ever heard in my professional career? I went from impressed by to embarrassed for your company in an instant. Let’s not waste one another’s time here.”

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      I’ve had interviewers tell me they wish they had known i had quality certifications before the interview started.

      Glances at previous employment, list of certifications, cover page, previous employment #2, previous employment #3

      The HR people i encounter during contract interviews that aren’t literate is staggering.

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    Be me, 2021, leading a team of energetic people and rebuilding the department I inherited into a productive, dynamic team focused on creating solutions and training up new people. Get awarded employee of the year, get told thanks in part to me that the company will be set to see its strongest earnings ever. Widespread praise and appreciation. Develop strong bonds with team and feel rewarded going to work.

    Get laid off suddenly, told that it was part of the deal with selling the company to private equity. It was the plan all along to make the company “appear” profitable and successful so it would fetch highest value. Spend two years unemployed and depressed as covid ravages the working world and nobody wants to hire anyone over about age 28 or so, because it’s cheaper to hire younger people willing to fill any role than spend a lot on someone with specialized skills and management experience.

    We need to overthrow capitalism guys.

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    Would we ever have a chance of tying employee termination to a “reason”? Eg, if the company has decided to end a certain venture, downsize, or is down in revenue, each could be a reason - but if investor releases contradict those, then they could be investigated for it and possibly have the termination reversed, much like many of the recent DOGE firings (because no one in Congress said to downsize)

    Probably a vague and incomplete thought.

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      Yeah, it’s called employee rights and strong laws. Those exist overseas, most European countries are good examples. The USA is ass backwards when it comes to our employee protections.

      As an example, in many countries they need to give a reason for terminating your employment - pay out x amount of time depending on the reasons given and since your healthcare is NOT tied to employment you don’t need to worry about that going away. That’s not even discussing their paid vacation time or other legal protections.

      Basically, you can’t just fire people for some janky made up reason. As you can imagine this also leads to better hiring practices because the companies can’t just cut a person out of nowhere so they need to make sure they’re hiring good folks from the get go. Plus it means more job security and that the companies do a better job forecasting labor demand since they can’t just hire a bunch and fire whatever percentage as a rule of thumb.

      Anyways, I don’t know if we would ever have a chance as Americans, but I can tell you what you’re asking literally already exists.