Had a conversation last night with someone about how they were working with a client who was so demanding that they were basically a one-man IT department in all but name, receiving the same salary they’d receive if they sat on their ass, and that coasting quite literally on intermittent naps for over a week had finally resulted in an email to their superior about this being untenable, with no real result. This is a lifelong workaholic, and the fact they even sent that email means it’s BAD bad.
I’d been nagging them about this for quite literally years and they admitted they were just beginning to understand what I meant now and were thinking about just…not working beyond the 40hrs they were paid for anymore. Clocking out. Work done. But that their coming review might suffer.
Asked them out of genuine curiosity whether they’d ever gotten more money from working so hard. Was told there are bonuses and how much, but whether those goals are met depends on the entire department, so…usually no. Which, if one has any inkling of how unhealthy their work ethic has been in the past, is atrocious to me, btw.
Asked if they were going to ask for a raise, then, since they’re easily one of the most billable employees and technically they’d be paid more in unsalaried OT than in this company’s continual missed bonuses. They balked at that and said while they could, management wouldn’t like it and would consider them “disgruntled,” and started listing off things like the company paying for licenses and weighing salary against “the cost of employing me.”
The cost of employing me. Motherfucker, do you mean paying you? Software you’re required to use? Reimbursing business travel that would otherwise still have to be factored into salary if you’re to afford getting to the job site somehow? The company considers it a net loss that they have to pay you for and enable you to perform work, and will say this to your face!? Not even joking, my ass would be escorted from the premises, holy shit.
“The company has to buy licenses so I can work,” like this is a legitimate pain-in-the-ass concession just for them that they’d otherwise not be doing for their replacement, instead of something the company legally has to do regardless in order to function as a business.
Last night was probably the most civilly I have ever lost my shit and I’m still mad.
Small but therapeutic rant.
Had a conversation last night with someone about how they were working with a client who was so demanding that they were basically a one-man IT department in all but name, receiving the same salary they’d receive if they sat on their ass, and that coasting quite literally on intermittent naps for over a week had finally resulted in an email to their superior about this being untenable, with no real result. This is a lifelong workaholic, and the fact they even sent that email means it’s BAD bad.
I’d been nagging them about this for quite literally years and they admitted they were just beginning to understand what I meant now and were thinking about just…not working beyond the 40hrs they were paid for anymore. Clocking out. Work done. But that their coming review might suffer.
Asked them out of genuine curiosity whether they’d ever gotten more money from working so hard. Was told there are bonuses and how much, but whether those goals are met depends on the entire department, so…usually no. Which, if one has any inkling of how unhealthy their work ethic has been in the past, is atrocious to me, btw.
Asked if they were going to ask for a raise, then, since they’re easily one of the most billable employees and technically they’d be paid more in unsalaried OT than in this company’s continual missed bonuses. They balked at that and said while they could, management wouldn’t like it and would consider them “disgruntled,” and started listing off things like the company paying for licenses and weighing salary against “the cost of employing me.”
The cost of employing me. Motherfucker, do you mean paying you? Software you’re required to use? Reimbursing business travel that would otherwise still have to be factored into salary if you’re to afford getting to the job site somehow? The company considers it a net loss that they have to pay you for and enable you to perform work, and will say this to your face!? Not even joking, my ass would be escorted from the premises, holy shit.
“The company has to buy licenses so I can work,” like this is a legitimate pain-in-the-ass concession just for them that they’d otherwise not be doing for their replacement, instead of something the company legally has to do regardless in order to function as a business.
Last night was probably the most civilly I have ever lost my shit and I’m still mad.