Ask Lemmy

They killed the canteen. The food went from bearable to shit. That was their way of nudging employees to quit.

Hired a contractor to lead the IT department. Months later, said contractor outsourced us to another company and promptly left.

They didn't even have the guts to do it themselves.

Gave the C suite the highest performance rating possible after laying off like 20% of employees.

I'll never forget the day they wheeled the beer fridge out of the office.

I work retail in a place which was a pretty chill. But lately management has been making minute changes, tiny ones to solidify their management dynamic. We used to wear any hats we wanted (provided they were tasteful and didnt have a competing brand but everything else was fair) but now we can't wear any headware. We used to wear personal pins, and yes some of us were a little political in our pin choices, but mostly it was happy fun nerd nonsense. But the pins had to go. Then visible stickers on things. So basically you come to work in only company designated attire now. They are also making changes to how we can personalize our breakroom which is a long tradition in the company.

Company started a commission structure promotion for an upsell add-on. Two weeks in they retroactively changed the commission to decrease the payout. Most people didn't realize this but I did the math and showed every manager I knew that if this wasn't fixed they would destroy all integrity in any future sales programs and people would start jumping ship. Told them that I would be among the first and that thanks to having half the local office on my Facebook friends list I would have zero issues telling everyone why.

With very little fanfare and no apology they reversed the new policy within three days, record speed for a company that size. One of the managers pulled me aside to let me know they couldn't say anything previously but I was absolutely right. I told them they were a spinless coward* for not saying anything earlier but I understood the need to protect their paycheck.

After that I mentioned to the people that would have been most impacted that they dodged a bullet and they didn't know what I was talking about. I explained the change and unchange. They double checked the math and were pissed that they didn't see the scam earlier. Most of them were gone within a few months because they didn't trust the company anymore even though the company fixed it.

• this person learned very quickly that I would read the birthday card and toss it in the trash. They started signing them with "you can throw this away now". They once said they really appreciated that I never once even pretended to not tell the truth.

Limiting how many positive yearly reviews managers are allowed to give out. Not M$ but glad it's finally in the news. The employees find out how the system works fast, no matter how secret they tried to keep it.

Meetings.

Installed tracker on our phones, trucks and Verizon dashcam tattlers

Furlough team for one week

I haven't gotten a raise in 10 years (since I turned 50). In fact, switching jobs often resulted in a decrease in salary. From 2018 to today, counting inflation, my effective salary has dropped over 30%.

And no, I'm not mediocre at my job. At one Major Internet Monopoly I wrote a script to refactor several million lines of code, to remove redundancy in some autogenerated structs, with only one major outage that I fixed in a few hours. I than proceeded to modify a data display and write a coefficient calculation engine for an inhouse experiment that ended up saving them tens of thousands of dollars. After the experiment I leveraged the ML platform to generate reports for the data scientists in hours, where they were prepared to take weeks. My evaluation for that period? One step below Meets Expectations.

At another Major Internet Monopoly I basically implemented a major feature to the mobile app, while still in my 90 day onboarding period. Under extreme schedule pressure. And while the other engineers "helpfully" redesigned my code in code review. Once I missed a release cycle because a reviewer blocked my submission because I forgot to add a period at the end of a comment. I'm still burned out from that one.

I'm at a much better company now, at $10k below the Major Internet Monopoly above. In 2 years I got one 5k bonus, but still no raise. And we're a startup struggling with the current economy fuckery, so no real point asking for a raise.

Sorry, that was 3 things.