Promotions aren't a thing anymore anyways, are they? Only if you switch jobs can you get a raise
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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Going to use this chance to vent about the fact that when the senior guy on my team left for another company it was basically all but confirmed I would take over his role I had been there the longest, was already doing a lot of senior work, and was the giy people on the team came to when they needed help, to the point we spent the month or so after he handed in his notice to train me on what he did and give me access to the systems he managed. Then a week after he left my boss announced that the guy that had been there 3 months would be taking on the senior role.
Who's kid was he?
I sure hope you are able to and are actively looking for a different employer. That sucks man...sorry to hear it.
A few jobs back, my employer promoted me once within a year of starting from a new college graduate position to a junior position, then strung me along for three years with "you're just not quite ready for a mid level position but you will be. Any day now!" This was all in spite of me doing the work of a senior position within the company for the last two years.
So I got a job at a different employer and went from a junior position to a senior position, like magic, nearly doubling my total income in the process. My coworker did the same, hopping from a senior position to a management position at my current employer. I've increasingly observed how corporate United States is painfully stupid and inefficient and it continues to boggle my mind
I've increasingly observed how corporate United States is painfully stupid and inefficient and it continues to boggle my mind
B-b-but capitalism! Will rule out inefficient companies!
Yeah. The world is broken.
This is not just the US, it is the norm world wide.
It’s also not limited to job relations either. “New customer? Let me show you this sweet deal.” - “Oh, you’re already a customer? Then it’s full price I’m afraid”
You need to regularly review/change contracts.
Back in my (born 1996) days, the longer you were a customer the sweeter deals you had. 8 years already a customer? Maybe we can strike a cheaper offer rather than you running to someone else.
I'm in Australia and we still do this? I have a loyalty discount for being a customer for 7 years, AU$57/month for unlimited data on my mobile and free calls to 40 countries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They got rid of it here, sadly. Or at least i haven't seen any loyalty behavior from the big brands lately.
I might be older than your dad and I don’t recall seeing an offer like this. 😊
Used to be the norm here in Czechia, maybe your country wasn't as progressive 🤔
Well, I think many people on lemmy don't live in country that once was one of 15-states multinational conglomerate for universal healthcare, universal education, universal housing and long term planning. Not that such planning was very good at the end of it. Or not that it wasn't occasionallly sidetracked with killing people.
I am their dad and I have no idea what they're talking about.
Yeah, idk of people actually just get promoted to a new job. I always have to apply to av internally posted position. If I get it I guess I technically get promoted.
Remember people, the power is in the workforce.
The greatest con ever conducted was to convince the largest population of people on the face of the planet, the middle class that we have no power.
We hold literally all the power.
All we have to do is collectively as a society stand up to these corporations and tell them that we will work only on our terms not on theirs.
It's not that the middle class has no power, it simply has too much to lose if they choose to revolt.
What if your revolution fails and you lose your money and your house? What if it succeeds and your new government decides you have too much?
That is why the middle class is a stabilising force in country's politics. And if they lose their stuff, and feel like they have nothing to lose but their chains, then some higher ups lose their heads.
Well, the revolt I was more or less referring to would be against private/public business.
We need to as a society start dictating how much things should cost.
Like inflation for example wouldn't exist if as a whole population we simply didn't pay the difference in increased price.
Business would eventually start pricing their good and services to where people wanted to pay as long as they paid.
Gotta keep on a tight leash, but not too tight. God I love capitalism ^/s^
If these companies were serious about on-site work and how much better it is, they would pay for time while commuting and transportation expenses.
A nice and public "fuck you" to C-level staff in tech. Remote work isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
womp womp
So the workers opted to continue remote work at the convenience of not getting promoted, and I bet my top dollar they lost any motivation they had and are all now looking for new gigs 😂
Looking for new gigs is currently the new normal regarding promotions anyway, according to HMW. Since companies have long shown that have no loyalty to their workforce and will lay them off as soon as they need their numbers to go up for shareholders.
And new hires to positions get paid better than promotions from within to the same positions. So it's better just to routinely keep sending out résumés to openings.
So the no promotions threat is mostly a paper tiger.
It's true, whenever I'm done with my salary I go for a new gig. Huge percentage of increase every time instead of this corp-speak "1-3%" bullshit. With job change I typically see around 30%
Sad trombone? Small violin?
They prolly knew the risk otherwise they would never give that choice. Good for dell wagies!
Dell Managers revealed as weenies.
haha get fucked dell
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