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Personal experience: My company had record profits due to cost cutting in 2020, yet my department’s budget was frozen at the beginning of the pandemic and remai
by tomdell 6y ago
Personal experience: My company had record profits due to cost cutting in 2020, yet my department’s budget was frozen at the beginning of the pandemic and remains frozen. Two team members quit briefly before the pandemic and were never backfilled due to the budget freeze, no promotions or raises have been given (or will be given until at least the upcoming summer or fall, I’m told - though this flies in the face of what I’m seeing in other departments), and the workload for my team has increased drastically. I’m a middle manager with no real control over promotions/raises/etc. and it has been sad to see previously chipper and excited employees descend into obvious misery.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhy give raises when your employees have to be grateful for having a job at all?
- tomdell 6y agoThat seems to be the MO!
- Viliam1234 6y ago> Two team members quit briefly before the pandemic and were never backfilled due to the budget freeze I don't understand this. If the budget is frozen, that means it still contains money for salaries of those two team members that are no longer there, so I assume the salaries are no longer paid to them. Which means, the same money could be used to pay two new people... or maybe just one new person, if the new employees are more expensive than old ones. Eh, just kidding!