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Hopefully find different employment (with hopefully better pay and room for advancement) but based on all the rejections this year (between a previous bankruptc
by ryanmercer 8y ago
Hopefully find different employment (with hopefully better pay and room for advancement) but based on all the rejections this year (between a previous bankruptcy and no degree I'm effectively an undesirable) I don't hold much hope. Last year I had one company hire me, never once ask about my financial history, then terminate me while I was asleep the night of my first day of work after they discovered my bankruptcy (seriously, no document or paperwork even asked unlike every application I've ever filled out that specifically asks, nor did any of the people interviewing me or onboarding me) and this year I didn't get notification either way from a half dozen companies and rejected after interviews with several others, one of which had me do three video interviews which may be common for tech type jobs but here in the Midwest anything past 1 interview means "unless you're a wanted fugitive, we're hiring you", that was pretty defeating.
I just can't do this job much longer and my primary employer keeps doing annoying things:
- This is the first year they didn't give us a Christmas card and as a Christmas gift they informed us food trucks will no longer be allowed to come here as it violates the corporate solicitation policies... despite the fact they are food trucks we've been finding for years and inviting them to come out because we get tired of eating microwaved food and 30 minutes isn't enough time to drive anywhere, get food, drive back and eat it and eating at desks is forbidden.
- They told us they'd be bringing more jobs to our location... I went from having 1 manager and 1 team lead to having 1 manager, 3 team leads and what is basically a 'jr' team lead. All 3 of my team leads have been here half the time I have. They did this for every team and in every single case promoted people with considerably less time at the company/in the industry than a good chunk of the applicants.
- Banned most decorations for holidays
- Made our insurance worse yet again
- Gave us a Trump tax break 'bonus', except to our pensions, and gave us an out-of-cycle cost of living increase (which if you read the fine print, did away with our next merit based increase meaning instead of 6ish months away the next one would be 18 months away).
- Continues to highly discourage any talking or socialization by placing a team lead or the 'jr' team lead-like individual in every single row to watch every single employee.
- Etc
- bdavisx 8y agoI hope you have left a Glassdoor review for them.
- ryanmercer 8y agoIf I ever leave I plan to but even if I was fairly vague, there aren't a lot of people that have been here as long as I have. If I mentioned most of the stuff that's progressively gotten worse it would put me on a list of maybe 8 people that had been here that long and only 3 of us in my position. Griping without directly mentioning them is one thing, complaining on something specifically linked to them is another.