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Post by Nth on Aug 15, 2022 19:12:26 GMT
When I applied to the plant there was a lineup around the building. The last two years our plant hasn't even been close to employment capacity. Now the company is offering employees a $500 bonus if they bring in someone to work and an additional $500 bonus if that person completes 6 months of training.
A lot of new employees aren't digging the call-in system and that first year of training pay. Company now has removed training pay and new employees will start at tier 1 employee pay which is good for them, it doesn't affect me though.
The call-in system has now been adjusted. Instead of a 12 hour shift, call-ins will only be required to work 8 hours. Secondly the Monday call-ins have been completely removed due to that fact the scheduling works out so that whoever was working the day and night shifts on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday weekend would be on call for Monday making it possible they will have to work four shifts in a row, get 24 hours off and have to be back at work for another two shifts.
Glad they changed it, but we're still petitioning for the call-in system to be completely removed and replaced with the voluntary overtime sheet, which we already have, but that should be the default system in place.
My crew has had a spate of retirements over the last few months with another one coming up September 1st. I just realized that with September being my ten year anniversary I only have about three people left in my crew, in my shop, with higher seniority than me. To me that's an insane realization. Especially with how much effort was put in to getting me removed the plant over my first three years.
People kinda wondering why I haven't moved on anywhere else in the plant and I always have to explain to them that promotions in the plant work based on your social credit score in the plant. Not even joking.
The system in place is a point based system where by doing more work and taking on more responsibility, you don't get paid more, you earn points. Then when you want to move to another position they look at your file and see if you have enough points to apply for another position. Absolutely sinister. It's no wonder our plant is now hiring people directly off the street into management positions instead of promoting people from within. Not a lot of people are interested in playing that game. The guy currently running my shop has never built a tire, knows nothing about tire building, has been here less than a year and will be giving me a performance review this fall; hilarious.
It's not that I'm not willing to move up in the company, but I expect to be compensated in cash, not magic beans. We have these mini-boss jobs called Spoke Duties. I've been asked multiple times over the years to take on one of these jobs. Sure, when you're willing to pay me.
We have an internal emergency response team made up of employees in the plant who have to give up days of their free time to take training courses and first aid training. I've been asked to join that multiple times.
Sure, when you're willing to pay me.
Quality control, metrology, machine repair, all jobs that require more work and training, but the company refuses to compensate in anything other than imaginary points. So you get enough points to get 'promoted' to another job then you get some more points so you can apply for another position up the ladder in the future to earn some more points to move up some more. They literally developed an internal promotion system based on a score card and you get compensated with a higher score. Fucking amazing.
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Post by Shadow Master on Aug 24, 2022 6:27:09 GMT
Lately, my physical well being hasn't been the greatest. Nausea, lack of appetite, increased heart palpitations and anxiety. Yet, I found the one thing that has helped me cope (and reduce my stress levels)
is by distracting myself with writing.
In my teenage years, I worked on and off at my dad's home renovation business. With the help of one other assistant, We mostly fixed up homes around the city's middle to upper class neighbourhoods; practically
the only areas where a contractor could make an honest living.
Besides working nonstop from the early hours of the morning right into the evening, my biggest problem was travelling to work. More often than not, I would show up to the job before daylight. 1 bus route, 2 rail
transit stops and 27 stops on the subway itself. Most times, not eating breakfast or getting a full night's sleep in the process.
For this particular story, I showed up to a job near the city's waterfront. The homeowners were a pleasant Ukrainian family that needed their living room and upstairs bedrooms painted. As per my usual custom, I would
change on the job before work began. With work clothes in hand, I ended up changing in the basement out of view of the family. Conveniently, the basement was located below the house's small kitchen with the doorway
imposed over the breakfast nook.
In full uniform, I walked upstairs, passed the family enjoying their breakfast and headed for the front hallway. Picking up a paint brush, my dad glanced over at me and quietly gestured for me to lean in closer. In a hushed
aggravated tone, my dad murmured:
"fix your f*cking pants"
Being sleep deprived, I had just proudly paraded past a family having breakfast ....with my work pants on backwards.
So, the moral of the story? A cup of coffee goes a long way in the morning.
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Post by kokushishin on Sept 4, 2022 18:26:35 GMT
I have a lot on my mind about our opportunist suddenly "changing their mind." Of course, due to the person who okayed this now being gone there's probably a ton of shit heading their way that they can't sidestep now. But as usual other shit happened.
Derpy has a new plan. It's stupid and will probably backfire.
The third (or turd I should say) similarly has no concept. Literally griping about losing hours in the same breath as trying to go home early.
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Post by Nth on Sept 4, 2022 19:46:14 GMT
Just watching this video on twitter:
I've pretty much subscribed to the idea of 'Quiet Quitting'. That isn't to say you're not doing your job until someone notices and fires you. It's doing your job exactly to the specifications of your employment contract and no more and no less.
I remember my father giving me the advice that whatever job you have, be the first person to volunteer or be the first person to offer to go above and beyond and that by being pro-active in your career you'll find yourself moving from the bottom, upward fairly quickly.
This was probably some of the worst advice I ever got. Probably because Meritocracy doesn't really exist in most modern work environments any more. I'm sure it did at one point and still might in some places, but I've been working since I was 13 and have never experienced it. In fact it actually worked against me over the years. Being the guy to volunteer to do the dirtiest jobs only meant I was now defaulted to doing those jobs permanently, because a supervisor wouldn't have to go through the hassle of designating an employee who will complain about it.
The breaking point for me was seven years ago when the same supervisor who used to constantly threaten my job and call me in to work on my days off even when I wasn't on call and who I skipped all my breaks and lunches for and came into work sick or injured, called me into his office and told me "So I hear you're not doing any work." Whether this was someone else in the shop trying to get me in trouble or him just finding another way to harass me, I don't know. I had speculated that a lot of his hostility toward me was because he couldn't fire me so he was hoping to get me to quit.
That event completely changed my mentality to the work place. I'm killing myself for what? My wages aren't going to go up. I don't get a production bonus if I have a really good shift. Whether I build two units or two hundred units a shift I don't see a penny more or a penny less and the last five years the company has hardly promoted anyone from the labor force into management and have just been hiring people off the street who don't know anything about the business.
Our plant hasn't been at staff capacity in almost three years. There used to be people lined up around the building applying to get in here, but the wages have not kept up with inflation and the disparity between us and car builders used to be a wage gap of $4 and now it's around $20. They kept up with inflation over the years while we haven't.
The most we get is if we have perfect attendance for a year, we can wait six months and get a $200 pre-paid Visa card as a thank you. But it's always nice to hear the news about the executive branch of the company getting their multi-million dollar bonuses because profits were so good that year.
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Post by faulknasty on Sept 5, 2022 17:50:17 GMT
Just watching this video on twitter: I've pretty much subscribed to the idea of 'Quiet Quitting'. That isn't to say you're not doing your job until someone notices and fires you. It's doing your job exactly to the specifications of your employment contract and no more and no less. I remember my father giving me the advice that whatever job you have, be the first person to volunteer or be the first person to offer to go above and beyond and that by being pro-active in your career you'll find yourself moving from the bottom, upward fairly quickly. This was probably some of the worst advice I ever got. Probably because Meritocracy doesn't really exist in most modern work environments any more. I'm sure it did at one point and still might in some places, but I've been working since I was 13 and have never experienced it. In fact it actually worked against me over the years. Being the guy to volunteer to do the dirtiest jobs only meant I was now defaulted to doing those jobs permanently, because a supervisor wouldn't have to go through the hassle of designating an employee who will complain about it. The breaking point for me was seven years ago when the same supervisor who used to constantly threaten my job and call me in to work on my days off even when I wasn't on call and who I skipped all my breaks and lunches for and came into work sick or injured, called me into his office and told me "So I hear you're not doing any work." Whether this was someone else in the shop trying to get me in trouble or him just finding another way to harass me, I don't know. I had speculated that a lot of his hostility toward me was because he couldn't fire me so he was hoping to get me to quit. That event completely changed my mentality to the work place. I'm killing myself for what? My wages aren't going to go up. I don't get a production bonus if I have a really good shift. Whether I build two units or two hundred units a shift I don't see a penny more or a penny less and the last five years the company has hardly promoted anyone from the labor force into management and have just been hiring people off the street who don't know anything about the business. Our plant hasn't been at staff capacity in almost three years. There used to be people lined up around the building applying to get in here, but the wages have not kept up with inflation and the disparity between us and car builders used to be a wage gap of $4 and now it's around $20. They kept up with inflation over the years while we haven't. The most we get is if we have perfect attendance for a year, we can wait six months and get a $200 pre-paid Visa card as a thank you. But it's always nice to hear the news about the executive branch of the company getting their multi-million dollar bonuses because profits were so good that year. For me I saw my dad give everything he had for every job he had and they would just let him go whenever struggling times happened until he died unemployed because people thought he was too old to hire. So for almost the entire time I've been in the workforce the only time I put in the extra effort has been to keep my coworkers from having extra work and sometimes even then I wouldn't because it was just higher ups making us fill the place of 3-4 jobs for minimum wage or just above. That's also why I went into teaching because my work isn't about making someone else money it's about educating kids. I'm giving back to the community as part of my job. Some of the issues of higher ups putting more on us as they make all the money while not doing the real work is still there. I also have to put in extra work because I'm new to my subject and my school so I have a lot of lesson planning and what not to do. I'm all about the idea of only doing what you're required to do. You're doing the real work while they make the money. Fuck that. |
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Post by jameshilliv on Sept 6, 2022 9:49:16 GMT
It's the people that get friendly with management that get the promotions. I'm not that kind of person. I don't come to work to make friends I go there to work, and I believe my work should speak for me. I didn't get a promotion once and was told it was because I didn't have enough experience, even though I had worked several different positions in the front and back of the store and at one point was a supervisor. The guy who got it had no supervisor experience and had only worked overnights, and mostly in the backroom. I didn't care that he got the position, but I hate that they lied to me.
I can't help but work hard. My goal at a job is to outwork everyone else. Not to impress anyone, just to be the best. But it has backfired in the past. I was on the truck crew, and eventually the truck crew lead. Every day we came in we had to clear the floor and set up for the truck. Then I went on to become the backroom supervisor on days. At that point the manager decided me and my crew needed to start setting up for the truck crew because it helped them to get the truck unloaded faster. Then, after spending several years working hard, I was exhausted and went to receiving. Before I went there, there were two ladies working receiving and they spent a good portion of their day sitting back watching me and my crew work and management never said anything. So I thought when I went there I would get to relax a little. I was wrong. Anytime I sat back to rest a little it seemed like there was a manager making me do the things I did for my previous position. Sure enough I had to start setting up for the truck crew because the new backroom supervisor couldn't get all of his work done. The worst part is the girl that I worked with in receiving got to sit around and nothing was said to her.
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Post by kokushishin on Sept 29, 2022 17:50:47 GMT
I have the feeling they put it off to try and weasel out of something else but the problem child is running into deep shit now.
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Post by kokushishin on Oct 6, 2022 12:35:49 GMT
So yeah, they didn't seem to learn anything about how their laziness is costing them. Add in some other general WTF moments and I'm just done trying to deal with them.
The other I feel a lot of disappointment. They are still trying to cling onto a bad idea and while a change of scenery might help other things, carrying that baggage is going to drag them down again.
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Post by kokushishin on Oct 15, 2022 14:19:04 GMT
A decision was made but nothing really changed with those two, if anything I'm just waiting for the next screwup.
On that note, someone was a little salty all week and honestly were pretty lax in dealing with a certain "TFG is here again" They tried to blameshift us but I guess my mood shifting from casual indifference to "ok, next time I will just go straight tol your boss instead" took the wind out of their sails.
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Post by kokushishin on Mar 11, 2023 14:11:46 GMT
Honestly been mostly more of the same for a while, but another "maybe there's a chance this isn't as terrible an idea as it looks on paper" is limping along.
The problem child in particular is stuck with someone with nearly identical habits so it's both amusing and sad to see them react to the same exact shit they pull.
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