The CEO of my company announced we're "investing more in R&D", but what he meant was that US devs get laid off and twice as many devs hired out of Bangalore.
We didn't get bonuses this past fiscal year, instead select people were given "vested restricted stock awards" for shares of the company stock. You don't actually get the stock until 3 years after the plan starts though. This was timed right before the layoffs, so it's a strategy to keep other employees from resigning out of disgust by dangling the carrot over their heads. It's literally called our "Long-Term Incentive Program" and we had a whole WebEx meeting where the greasy white hamplanet HR ladies squeaked excitedly about it for half an hour. It's supposedly a "sign of growth" for the organization and "proof that the company values our developers".
It's not even worth that much, like $15k over the course of 3 years. That's assuming the stock price will even be the same in 3 years, it's been on a downward slope for the past 5.
MAGA Call Donald Trump and get this ceo's ass kicked.
Elijah Powell
there is nothing wrong with Bangalore
Kayden Sanchez
how much do you normally get for your bonus? im a literal wageslave so the concept of a bonus is just a gift card and a bunch of chocolates lmao
Jack Torres
They know they have a toxic work culture. They’re trying to keep people around for the least amount of money possible for consistency. Unfortunately they will probably not succeed with a massive culture change. Upper management just wants their quarterly bonuses. Other than that they don’t give a shit about the company.
Ian Perry
Usually around $2-3k. Are your benefits really good to outweigh the lack of bonus? What about yearly merit increases? It's usually 3-4% for me which is pretty low
>Upper management just wants their quarterly bonuses. Other than that they don’t give a shit about the company. Yeah pretty much. We've seen a rash of resignations lately despite the long-term incentive plan. It's a big fucking company so it won't affect shit though, if anything the suits are happy about it. Let all the overpaid seniors resign and fill the void with underpaid juniors eager to work 50 hours a week.
Ryder Ramirez
Also for some reason wagecucking in a corporate cubicle culture for so long has really made me appreciate classic vaporwave (it's not just a meme) like pic related. Something about this dystopian alternate future/fantasy really resonates with me. Maybe I'm beyond help at this point.
I hear webex calls like that all the fucking time. Fuck my life
Chase Smith
>Start a new job in March >Literally in my first 1-2 weeks about five people quit >Whatever, I was unemployed and it doesn't matter now that I have a paycheck >May comes, head of sales gets fired, about 6 more people quit between that time period >Starting to realize companies a clusterfuck and people around me are retarded. No processes in place and the people around me arent smart enough to teach themselves >Taking on larger accounts and get 3 direct reports in start of June >Boss telling me im doing a great job and Im likely going to get promoted in July >June 15th rolls around (my birthday unironically) and we get an unannounced calendar invite from the CEO at 4PM >Mfw its called company update >I go up to the third floor with about half the company. The other half stays on the 2nd floor and they got a separate email >About half company laid off on spot for missing revenue goals. Completely gets rid of engineering, marketing, and analysts who do the bitch work >Company quarterly bonuses and raises are frozen until Jan 2020 now, so I got no Q2 bonus >Morale sucks for next few months, we have another team update last week >CEO announces he is leaving (likely got fired) >My last analyst quits, about 15 of us now >Merging with the parent company. My new boss tells me in our 1:1 that he wants me to train 2 new hires and have them report directly to me >Still havent received Q2 or Q3 bonus, doing multiple jobs.
Should I tell this nigga to fuck himself? He said he could get me promoted asap but its too uncertain with this merge, no ceo, and the fact I didnt get fucking paid money on big businesses I won. Im thinking of telling him I want a raise to reflect the misses bonuses and a title change, by x date. Already interviewing on the side, have a pending offer, and if its not met Im leaving
Thoughts, wagies?
Hunter Cooper
For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.
One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".
Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.
Aiden Scott
I would seriously email/tweet trump asap. Unironically.
Asher Gonzalez
You get bonuses every quarter?
Kevin Thomas
yes based on upselling. Should have gotten about $10k by now
Blake Harris
Be wage cuck Don't want to work go to the outside bathroom and hide in their from around nine to lunch browsing the internet on my phone No one notices do this for like two weeks until someone notices and I get fired
Lets put it this way. I've been in the workforce 3ish years, even though I graduated college over 3 years ago. Every job I've had has made.me less tolerant of putting up with a business pushing me around. Was looking to waste my sick time and non redeemable vacation time. Make up a lie. Suddenly this woman is willing to let me use the company car. Lol no I'm not putting a cent worth of gas for driving with it. Make up another lie. Family emergency and try to keep it private. Her busybody self keeps asking questions. Says something that basically means that it is more important for me to be there/she needs me more than my family. Was ready to quit on the spot even though I was lying. Was holding my badge ready to pull it out. Wasted my paid time for the most part but they screwed me over in not putting the correct hours I actually had. Nonetheless used most. Went in one day after a holiday so they'd pay me for a holiday. Quit that day with no 2 weeks notice and supervisor wasnt there lol. Left at a time when there was a lot of work too. Very tiresome getting taken advantage off for a hard work ethic, given lip service, and then when performance evaluations come...average on almost everything except 1. Slap in the face excyse she gave me, "Thats how my boss did it when I was in your position" garbage excuse, just makes me look bad too any other company that van dig up this evaluation. New job I quit on my second week. No longer interested in doing two weeks notices.
Basically if I were you Id ask for the pay before the end of the week (do it on Monday). If their response is anything but a paycheck quit on Friday while smiling inside because I began slacking off on Monday expecting this.
Jayden Jackson
One of my jobs pulled passivw agressive stunts anytime I was gone for over an hour. Even had a supervisor who was utterly suspicious of me yet depended on me at the same time. Quit on her and did barely any work leading up to the day I ontended to quit without 2 weeks notice.
Update your resume and start looking for a new gig quietly. Your odds of getting hired is better if you're currently working. $5k a year in hopium stock is bullshit. They're just deferring payroll, because they can't afford to raise wages, most likely. If you don't get AT LEAST a cost of living raise every year, that tracks inflation, leave. When they bring the HR pigs in to oink up "incentives", it's time to prepare your exit. Get out now, before the waves of people leaving starts. You might be too late. But don't quit until you have a new job lined up. Just do the minimum to not get fired, and put all your energy into a job search.
Grayson Wood
>be me and work for a large insurer with an 1hr and a half commute each way, office in an entire state away.
Get to work late almost everyday because traffic. Listen to crypto and financial podcasts during morning commute. Look all excel spreadsheets all goddamn morning. Have female boss who is an overachieving Jew. Takes her fucking laptop to work with outside in the parking lot during firedrills so she can take conference calls. Have a batshit insane director who graduated from an ivy league school who was also an absolute nutcase when it came to workloads. Would go to my car and trade crypto on lunch breaks and come back to office and slack off the rest of the afternoon swing trading eth from 140 to 420 in summer of 2017. Also cashed out half of my stack and sat in USD so I could give two fucks if I got fired. In the last few weeks of my job I would get to work hours late and I literally left early one day when I lost it and told my boss that I had a flat tire that needed to get fixed or I wouldn't be able to get home and just left the office so I could log onto an exchange and sell my crypto during the bull run in December. I put in my two weeks later and enjoyed a few months off to recover from that absolute shit experience of a job. NEVER EVER take a job with a horrendous commute. It will eat your soul alive. I put 45k miles on my acura in over a year.
Chase Gonzalez
conferencecall.biz tears at my soul
Brandon Bennett
I like long commutes because it forces me to get through my audiobook backlog
Jacob Bailey
I gained 15 lbs from that job from commuting by vehicle coming from a job where I'd walk and take the train to work everyday.
Jacob Clark
>Takes her fucking laptop to work with outside in the parking lot during firedrills so she can take conference calls Fuck I know that type. One chick I used to work with ALWAYS had one earphone in and seemed to be perpetually on a call, even while she was walking around office or making coffee in the kitchen.
Tyler Parker
The office also didn't have anywhere within walking distance where yiu could grab a bite to eat for lunch other than the shit cafeteria in the o
>Tfw when wagecuck and you go to bed so late because you just want to entertain yourself with the few hours you have after you get home and pay the price the next day with 5 hrs of sleep.
Josiah Torres
the shame is three years for 100% vesting is legitimately decent nowadays.
The whole thing is just a jewish tactic to trick people into thinking they're getting a good deal. I've heard of someone getting a 5-year vesting period, might as well just give them a "Don't forget, you're here forever" poster while they're at it
Asher Hughes
worked for terracon a couple years ago. big geotchnical/engineering/construction services company. our vesting was five years. for a fucking professional services company.
adn yeah, it's totally a false hope. stay an extra year and you go from 75 to 100%! enjoy that extra $700 (in thirty years).
Juan Collins
I stayed at a job years longer than I should have, because the office was 3 blocks away. You can put up with a lot of shit when home is 4 minutes away. I went home every day for lunch. I fucking miss it. I got gas like once a month, because I walked to work, unless it was raining.
Elijah Sanchez
I wouldn't mind if you could choose to opt into a deferred stock plan, if you planned on being around that long anyway. But they don't give you the choice - and you know they're expecting most people to leave before vesting, or they'll conveniently lay off a big percentage of them in 5 years. Me, I want cash.
Jordan Watson
yeah. our 401k matching if i recall was almost entirely stock, and the company was privately owned. which means the stock was reevaluated once per year by an "independent" assessor. oh yes, everyone, our stock totally is worht 20% more because some guy wrote a report saying it is.
Jaxon Allen
How do you even cash out stock if it private like who buys it? Am I a brainlet
Sebastian Morris
i remember asking that once, and dont recall the answer. im sure someone else here knows the procedure, but i think it gets sold back to the company, so essentially "burned" since the company doesnt sell shares to generate cashflow. it's all a fucking scam, like giving your employees tokens to buy groceries at the neighborhood company store.
Noah Gonzalez
Cryptollionaire now, so I don't have to wagecuck. But back in the day I had internships in big banks. Working time was OK but because of Jow Forums I still ended up oftentimes with 5 hours of sleep or even less. Probably like 2 times per week. These were my horror days. I tried sleeping on the toilet for like 20 minutes a time or had my eyes closed and was just clicking and hitting keys randomly so it would appear like I was working when in reality I was just too tired to do anything.
> Work for private logistics provider > About 1000 employees > 800MN in annual revenue > Family owned and operated Things were great. Loved my job, loved the company, had close relationships with board members and executives, very employee centered, every employer got a turkey for thanksgiving. Then came the Canadians. > Father of family dies > Children have no interest in owning a logistics company > Instantly sell their dads life work to Canadian venture capitalist firm In the 3 years since > Immediately stop turkeys for thanksgiving > All employees used to get a bonus day on top of their PTO > That's gone > PTO gets 'restructured' which gives bottom shit stain employees as much as management that has been there decades > Bonuses have been 'restructured' > Might be harder to hit, but you can potentially get so much more haha! > Haven't heard of a single station actually qualifying for this > Fast forward to last month > Massive layoffs, more than 100 people so about 10% of staff > Truckload division out of San Diego has been sold off > March a recently promoted VP leaves for competitor > Last month President of Domestic Operations 'retired' > Have confirmed wasn't following marching orders from Canadians and forced out > Sr. Corporate Operations Manaher gone, no notice if fired or quit but abruptness makes me think fired > Just got word 2 more rounds of layoffs coming Anyone else been on a sinking ship? Had an interview today, hoping to jump ship ASAP.
Mason Howard
Tell us your tale of crypto success. I don't care if you're larping I just need a comfy bedtime story
> Immediately stop turkeys for thanksgiving yup thats the first warning sign. i left old place when they stopped letting people take a half-day on christmas eve. but hey, you get christmas day off!
stay calm and collected while you search for antoher job. steal as much cleaning supplies and coffee on your way out
Cameron Morales
I used to do self destructice passive aggressive avoidance behavior too. Fapping on the job, taking 2 hour lunches, pretending you don't see your boss calling.
I thought I'd grown out of it but I was playing slay the spire in a meeting with the CEO just today.
Camden Kelly
I've been working at the same company for 8 to 9 years, I signed a non-compete after the first couple years and only now do I understand what I've done to myself.
I'm 37 and I manage a team of four programmers and barely make 110k, I know that I'm being underpaid but my skill-set is so specialized to that I'm going to have a hard time finding work someplace else and not violating my non-compete.
At least I got myself into a potentially comfy remote work situation that's starting in a week, we'll see how difficult it is to manage the team from 100 miles away.
They fucking destroy everything they touch. The real shitter is, ultimately there's 3 possibilities, with no real fucking communication about what their motives are > They want to take us public Awesome, I'm with it, let's make this bitch the #1 name in e-commerce delivery and business to business truckload services > They want to sell us off Okay, brings a lot of uncertainty, but could be a good thing as much as a bad thing > We're Sears and they're stripping our assets while paying themselves bonuses Bad, and where I think it's going. The day the Canadians were announced as owners they gave us all nice bonuses. Now it feels like it was a bribe.
Gabriel Bailey
Fuuuuck I got a big bonus back when my company got bought out too. That was when I had just barely started out of college. I even bragged to my mom about how my career was meteoric while my dad (also a programmer) just gave a silent stare
>new job making 1/3rd of previous salary at carbon fiber manufacturing plant >need this to make ends meet doing retards work in an inclement environment >demold department >quality assurance manager does not like me >try to steer clear and act cordially, autism doesn't help >QA manager goes out of her way to nitpick my work and bitch >who fuckin cares, haven't destroyed a mold or part unlike the retards who have been here for 5+ years >QA manager bitches to owner about me >Owner comes out with all of his engineers, front office cronies >asks me to demold the most difficult part with an audience of 20+ people and the QA manager >begin, QA immediately bitches to owner about how I use my tools like a poodle waiting for attention >owner reams me for how I use my tools, how I place my molds on the table, and for "beating" his molds during my demonstration in front of 20+ people >my team lead jumps in realizing that this is a crucifixion, finishes the part >QA Manager bitches at me while my team lead finishes the demonstration >afterwards, team lead tells me that he spared me of being humiliated even though all I did was how he trained me to do it >still no broken parts or molds >"be prepared for lots of overtime!"
Wagecucking makes me want to die. I don't want to be an NPC in someone else's dream...
Well before they were 'restructured' i'd get bonuses equitable to your own every quarter, usually between 2-3K. Since then I took a promotion into an area that has never qualified for bonuses, but it's just another brick in the wall of fuckery going on at the board level.
Brody Lopez
>conferencecall.biz/ . > large party webex > "let webex call you" > fucking WebEx goes straight to voice mail after conference call begins > voice mail ends > presenter proceeds with call / presentation > one participant puts group on hold
There's always the one guy breathing or chewing loudly into the microphone. The most embarrassing, guttural, animal sounds that you unconsciously make when you think you're alone and nobody can hear you. Sometimes that person was me
Connor Howard
I'd quit after that.
Owen Hill
Eh, not really, in our case it's an extra 10,000 in one year (8% match). Compounded over 35 years could lead to at least a reasonable backing
