Boss responded my followup this morning and said we were on same page, that he would get with me today so hopefully no bullshit
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He got with me and heās talking about 19% and that came from his boss so should be good but still have to get it signed off on I guess from HR, everything looking good
Pretty ecstatic
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$11.90/h is goddamn fantastic. Congrats.
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This sure is an interesting take on resolving burnout.
This is just the dystopian capitalism version of āslumming itā.
Absolute trash journalism. Letās just give a tech exec a free column to do damage control for Amazon.
The article really isnāt damage control. Itās pretty damning about Amazonās conditions. The only positive he mentions in the article is the physical labor helped him out of depression which is possible. When worked in college, I liked working in a warehouse because you did get a good workout. The article should have had the additional information that Amazonās warehouse work isnāt typical of warehouse work so the physical warehouse stuff can still be done in a less demanding warehouse environment. A lot of less āoptimizedā warehouses are just daily shift work which varying hours based on seasonality, not the fast food emergency shift stuff.
The rest of the article is how terrible Amazon is. Hereās how it starts
On my first day, I was given a hot-and-cold compress, some sort of sports drink, a COVID cloth mask with the Amazon smile on it, and one serving of a pain medication ā all in a Ziploc gallon-size freezer bag. I contrast that with joining a place like Microsoft
When your job starts you out with a cold compress and pain medication, you know itās shit.
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Yeah, he still get to put a heavy dose of āI like the structure and zen-like fulfillment!ā on the piece. Like sure the job is hard but gee being a CEO is hard too and moneyās not everything, you know. idk to me, it came of as being very both-sidesy on the issue of exploiting workers.
Seems like another āIām pretty wealthy and have had a pretty easy life. Iām going to play pretend to be a normal working stiff to get in touch with how most of the rest of the world has to struggle to existā.
These kinds of stories always make me irrationally angry. Throw them in the bucket with āhereās how I paid off my student loans in 2 years (my parents gave me $200k, but I had to cut down my Starbucks consumption to only 4 a week.)ā
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Bout tree fiddy
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Non-paywall link
At first glance this article seemed like another ākids these days just donāt want to work,ā but I think itās actually about a shift in priorities, and is backed up by some data. Iāve also observed the trends describes in my own career.
Sure seems like a lot of complaints about unpaid overtime in there.
I know that in IT a lot of the willingness for unpaid overtime was the threat of shipping your job to India. Those days are gone. Developing countries like India, China, Philippines etc. no longer have a large reservoir of highly qualified IT people willing to work cheaply. Their universities canāt keep up with the demand and they know their worth now.
Since the onset of the pandemic, several employees have asked for more pay when managers asked that they do more work, she says. āIt was not like that before Covid at all,ā she adds.
GOOD LORD
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Everyone else is volunteering to get ponied, I might as well.
Itās not crazy, but it is new. I only got OT when more than 40 hours were billable. Obviously 0 now that Iām a contractor.
Shit is going to burn when the labor market goes back to normal.
At least somewhat lukewarm take incoming. I think the āgo-getterā mentality is a good thing.
The problem is not so much the uncompensated work, itās just that being a āgo-getterā doesnāt pay off the way it should. Going the extra mile to make yourself stand out is not a bad thing. Itās a bad then when there is no reward. If the people that did these kinds of things were appropriately rewarded, then I donāt think there would be a problem with the general principle. It is a problem if you donāt pay them immediately for the work AND you also donāt somehow reward them down the line (promotion, raise, etc).
Iām not sure why COVID was such a catalyst for this whole thing to fall apart. Seems like it would have inevitably happened pretty soon.
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It also assumes workers are powerless. Obviously there are huge power imbalances between management and labor, but if your company is treating you like shit and paying you poorly, then go somewhere where they still treat you like shit but pay better.
I agree. Theres this kind of unwritten agreement. Yeah. Iāll do the extra work and take on more responsibilities. But you have to invest in me somehow.
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