OMG my future boss is an ETHUG.

 

neither is working in the mail room.........


my girlfriend started at her current job at the equivilent of the mail room, the photo copy room. her job was to make photo copies of legal documents all day long. she didn't like the job. not because it sucks but because her supervisor constantly gives her near impossible quotas and rush jobs after rush jobs. as well as jobs of other lazy copy room workers that never meet the deadlines to finish. she complains to me every other day that she is doing other people's jobs and constantly gets moved to other departments to do even more of other people's job while others are doing nothing. she wanted to quit. i told her no. told her to keep up her good work. when they put more work load on you that means that they value you and you will be rewarded for it. she kept at it and a few months ago when she returned from maternity leave, she was sent to see the owner of the company. He (the OWNER of the company. someone that she doesn't even see on a regular basis) has and has been noticing her work. she had no clue. she in fact thought she was getting laid off but was really getting promoted to company representative. from the mail room to company rep in under 3 years. her office is now upstairs one floor away from the company owner.


i started at my current job as a parts driver/shop help 6 years ago. today i'm chomping at the heels of the shop's lead mechanic to become the shop's go-to guy. in my 6 years of employment i have gotten 3 pay raises. one of $2.50/hour another of $3.50/hour and my latest pay raise of another $3.50/hour. one former employee of the company waited 3 years before his first pay raise. that raise was $0.25. he went on to work for the company for 9 years and that was his ONLY pay raise ever. he no longer works for the company.


so i repeat myself to the op and everybody that only performs what is only in their job title ............ Lazy Asss

if anybody wants me to say it to their face, PM me your number and i'll call you and tell you that people like me will be your boss one day. and on that day, i'll demote you to the mail room and hire that migrant mexican worker that busts his asss day in and day out to be YOUR BOSS.
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Jeggy,

In pops part's world, with a few employee's, this might work and clearly you have indicated it does.

Apply this, to someone, working for an organisation with 70,000+ employee's. NucoStr8, knows, that industry and organisations play a solid role in the reality of being noticed and promoted/renumerated accordingly.

Working at IBM (as an example), plenty of people might go that extra mile, there might also be plenty of managers between those people and the CEO, doing the same. Not withstanding there may also be plenty of people and managers between these people who simply don't see this.

I can from experience, say, plenty of people I know and worked with, for another large US company, similar to IBM, put in countless unpaid hours only to have their roles off-shored to cheaper labour markets. In that time, waited and hoped for a pay rise to cover the likes of inflation, to be told, sorry not going to happen.

So forgive some people for being cynical and simply working their job.

 

im not lawyer, but im pretty sure that your work can make up any hours they want for you. employment is at-will, if you dont like the hours, dont work them. if they dont like your performance, they can fire you.

 

I agree. Most "big" companies will milk you until you feel like you are being violated. They expect you to put in "Casual overtimes" and want you to work from 6 am to noon on Saturdays just because they want to be able to tell THEIR boss, "Hey, we shipped bunch of our products before the month is over...Give me a big phucking pay raise!" And what do they do when we are working on Saturday mornings? They are playing golf outside until they get nice tan on their faces.