Pretty USA#1 of companies to save all this money in long term office leases and accompanying equipment, and then write into job descriptions that employees must pay for paper and pens and monitors.
Of course they must - they have a responsibility to their shareholders to extract max value.
Even in higher Ed I have to consent to inspection of my home office. And lol ain’t nobody coming to my house.
Because fuck you you aren’t coming into my house
The share of the population in retirement from February 2020 to April this year was higher by 1.5 million people than it would have been if the 2019 retirement trend had continued, according to the Dallas Fed.
The proportion of Americans 16 and older who weren’t in the workforce because of retirement reached a seasonally adjusted 19.6% in the third quarter this year compared with 18.5% in the pre-pandemic fourth quarter of 2019, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
I mean, I could certainly make an argument that not nickel and diming employees for expenses you have always borne would maximize long term shareholder value.
But more generally, LOL that they were maximizing shareholder value leasing thousands and thousands of square feet of office space for $25, $50, $100/sf that we now know isn’t needed.
During “The Great Resignation”
- I found a new job at a new company
- I am at the same company, but with a raise/promotion
- I am basically at the same place I was two years ago
- I retired
- I am now in a worse employment situation
0 voters
Does “with a raise/promotion” include company-wide raises?
If it’s not just a normal annual cost of living adjustment, yes.
Poll needs a “bastard” option for those of us who quit but haven’t found a new job yet.
2 Likes
Yea, my company had one of those “oh shit, everyone is leaving, we better pay more” realizations and made large adjustments in pay… and people kept leaving, so they’re doing it again 6 months later. Lucky me I guess.
Same
I’d classify that under “worse employment situation”.
Same here, got a 10-15% bump but no promotion or anything.
“All of the above”, except retired?
Was laid off a few months into Covid, found a new job but would probably classify it as a “worse employment situation” (I wouldn’t have left previous job for it), got an across-the-board raise at new company, then found a new job at a new company.
We all got a 3% raise after getting frozen during covid.
My boss was talking about a promotion for me but during our last few 1-1 meetings she hasn’t mentioned it, which might be a reason for concern. But I plan to quit soon anyway.
Except that quitting my job was a step in the right direction.
2 Likes
Got a 10% bump at some point but that was a realignment of the pay band, so basically I was already underpaid. I have been at the company for 2 years, 2 months and don’t really care about a promotion, just more money.
I want to start looking for a new job but two blockers I’m faced with is I’m starting to search for a house to buy so don’t want to rock that mortgage lender boat too much and tech interviews are such a pain in the ass that I will need to spend some non-negligible amount of hours preparing.
Interesting poll. I’m not sure how much my change actually was driven by the pandemic and related job market turmoil. For me, I went to the head of a business unit in 2019 and pitched a brand new role for myself. He bought it and I joined but then early in 2020 he transferred departments and his replacement didn’t support the role the same way. So I decided to bail, and it took me 4-5 months to find a new role.
Some commie should make a “how much are you paid?” thread
Somehow not an Onion article:
1 Like