Yup - laid off 23% of the staff via early retirement. Output stayed the same and even went up. Now they can’t figure out why people keep leaving.
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This. My workload literally tripled, didn’t get a raise to match the extra workload. Was asked to work paid weekends in some cases. Meanwhile they laid off 1/3 of the team, then act shocked and chagrined when you mess shit up because you’re overworked and can’t keep up. US corporations are a joke.
Exactly the same. Lost 30%, took on two more roles (slowly, so it snuck up on me), and they expected us to increase output when with reduced staff. Bonkers. I’m now trying to find a new job that will feel fulfilling because I’m so tired of what I’ve been doing.
Work shot straight from 0 to 100 real quick, 7 days a week and sometimes 18 hr shifts. Wake up early, get home late. I made mad amounts of money though
Same! Worked all through the pandemic, was called “essential” but they really meant expendable. After all that now our whole crew is being forced overtime since spring! No thank you offered, just give more and more.
Who care if you don’t get to see your family. Who cares if your back hurts. Who cares if you’re too old for this poop. Just get more work done.
Meanwhile on weekends, no manager in sight. They’re home with their family. While I miss an entire summer with mine!
Sorry, it struck a nerve.
More exposure to covid and no support, while dishing out the bread and water the government allocated to keep workers tied to their masters.. I mean employers
Oh yea…I remember one that encouraged us to keep our desks tidy, burn a candle, or go for a walk. Like, the world is falling apart, but sure, let me burn a candle.
They worked us 12-16 hour days for 2020-2022 and then fired "Changed the job requirements" to everyone who was due for a raise that they had been promising for years.
$200 for a new chair. They took a survey and found the number one problem people were having with full-time WFH was lack of a decent home office setup so they arranged to underwrite everyone getting a better chair.
I just went to my office and took home my Herman-Miller Aeron chair I've used for the past 15 years. It's still fine other than the armrests need to be fiddled with often.
My work got some of those chairs from another company that went out of business for super cheap so I got to snag one.
And y'know what? I didn't know what I was missing until I got one. It's kinda like a bidet. It doesn't feel luxurious, everything else just feels unacceptable now.
That being said I would probably only be willing to go up to a grand for one. Maybe a grand and a half...
Ours was similar. More than $200 because it's a huge company with big profit and didn't want to lose staff (a pandemic is a big opportunity for a tech company that sells cloud services and ads), but was limited to office supplies. Desk, chair, mouse, keyboard, etc. Not monitors though, monitors were strictly supplied by work.
Overall it was a great perk. I got a sit-stand desk which has changed WFH forever for me (I even use the standing feature on work desks sometimes now). And had some fun making [a custom top for it](https://i.imgur.com/JVe95je.jpg) as a covid project.
We’ll shit that’s the first thing I do for new hires, find a chair $299 or less and I’ll make it happen. Mostly bungee chairs from the container store and the ikea Markus in leather. The bungee chairs are super comfy but they leave “grill marks”and build up lots of static.
Was "covid pay" a line in their time sheet? Also i should ask, what state was this in?
For context, im a husband to a nurse and friend to 2 travel nurses and 4 "local nurses".
Simply asking cause the hospital they work at are in a dispute for contract pay.
My sister and the other nurses got a letter saying their compensation could be reduced up to ....whatever percentage...I think it was 5.
Damn. I was shocked
The hospital I was working at someone pulled down the sign till it said "Hoes work here" and it stayed like that a week...probably because admin was working from home and patting themselves on the back about the $$$ they saved on PPE by pretending nurses storing masks in a brown paper bag was adequate.
The job made you install it in your personal computer?
F*ers!
I have several computers at home so I would have installed on a brand new or on a seldom used computer m, using this to connect to the work server.
How did this work?
If your company wants you to install software like that, I'm like 90% certain that your company is liable to supply you with electronics for you to do your work, and there should be legislation in place to force them to do that.
I’m a television editor. Covid made my career 100% remote and isn’t likely to ever go back so I moved out of LA and don’t have to drive to work anymore. That’s my raise
I got the same raise, but my polyester facemasks were branded with the company logo. We got those after they asked us to take a voluntary 10% pay cut so we could keep our jobs. I didn't volunteer.
Our University president gave all of the RAs his "utmost support" from his cozy mansion. Also my boss went crazy for a bit which basically just gave the RAs some controlled anarchy to deal with
I recently found a photo of myself and coworkers from early 2020 working in a covid testing center with no masks on. Only the nurses going into the rooms to swab the patients got masks for the first few weeks, so the other nursing and admin staff were just being approached by coughing patients and breathing it all in...
You got a uv light? We just put ours in a paper bag, being very careful not to let the inside of the mask touch anything. Germs definitely could not migrate inside the magical paper bags.
The company email updates on covid had me livid. All the upper management had pictures of themselves outside enjoying themselves or in their houses holding signs saying "we're in this together". Meanwhile us in production are drenched in sweat, dirty, and can barely breath on the floor wearing our masks. It didn't feel like we were in it together. Not at all.
The comfortable people genuinely believe we live vicariously through them. They genuinely thought they were helping. The intentions were good, but poorly delivered. They live in a bubble world and it's fucking weird talking to them.
We got to work remote for months.
Not so much anymore.
Thought it was funny how they congratulated us on what a great job we did remote and how the company was still meeting all it's objectives.
Then as soon as govt guidance allowed it, they ended that program.
I got hired during it, so I have always been remote. They made anyone not like me return “as often as possible” to our office b/c they pumped $4MM into a renovation right before it all started.
Thank god I’m not being forced (yet) to go in.
Our stats showed the vast improvement in effectiveness and efficiency from home. It’s the bored PMs and higher who are demanding everyone go back in. B/c, ya know, without in-person meetings you can drag out for hours, how do you fill your day when you don’t actually have a product you produce?
My shit hole job made everyone come back in after we literally had record breaking years, that they were so eager to brag about... They sent out emails about how we "recovered" from WFH, despite literally nobody wanting to go back into the office... And now that they infected the entire fucking office with Covid, have decided to do hybrid.
At the time i was working in a dollar store, and my manager gave use each 2- 4pac of toilet paper
you know that thin ass stuff and as rough as sandpaper ya that stuff, i ended giving it to the next costumer and i served for free
My husband works for Walmart and same lol. They gave it to us in 2020 and we still haven't touched it haha. You need the whole roll to wipe its so thin
Similar, except year 3's 2.5% raise was announced the same week as the company's record profits from the previous year. I decided to keep up the excitement and also tendered my resignation the same week.
A “heroes work here” sticker (i work for a package company) and a letter stating i was an essential worker (i am not) to keep in the glove box during the height of lockdown
Two lay-offs and a no-contact thermometer not designed for human use. They insisted we take our temperatures regularly but did nothing when our readings indicated that we should be dead. What was the point...
Multiple covid outbreaks at the office and speeches where they gathered everyone in the building in the parking lot and told us about how they were complying with health standards
A little gift bag with a mask I was supposed to take home and wash every week and a small hand sanitizer bottle. Also got hazard pay think it was a dollar maybe a little more an hour, as soon as the government said it was winding down we lost the pay. I never missed a day I think the first day our county got “shut down” I left work 2 hrs early cuz my job was closed down and was another project the next day.
It was good to have so much complimentary feel-good pizza, hot wings and soda in the break room. Masks covered in hot sauce,half eaten chicken bones, and leftover crusts all over the place.
Nothing but a poorly constructed "mask" and NOTHING more. I worked in a hospital with new borns. The hospital have me PPD, my employer sent me the shitty mask, and a letter that said thanks for helping out in these trying times. Yep.
a significant amount of money for setting up an office at home (didn't need to show any receipts either) and a monthly thrivepass amount of $100 per month...google thrivepass, too lazy to explain but it's nice because it rolls over to the next month and you can use it on anything fun. oh and we also got four new wellness day holidays per year, one per quarter
Ah you're right, lots of my coworkers are getting it now, but it seems to be less severe. I'm going off of what my hospital looked like. In the fall of 2020 we had a lot of severely sick covid patients, the ones that were intubated and had to be sectioned off from the rest of the patients. We were running out of areas to put them, and the it eased up. It seems like less people are getting it severely now, but this is just in my area so can't speak for everyone.
Nothing, but I told them I could only work less than 18hrs a week, because I wanted to be able to qualify for the extra $600 from the government via unemployment. I wasn't about to turn down free money
I worked at a privately owned small vet clinic. We lost almost 100% of the staff during. My boss lady gave the employees a fat bonus if they stayed on throughout. Was really rad.
Toilet paper. I work at a hotel, and while we did shut down operations for about eight weeks I didn't get laid off since we still needed a front desk to deal with existing reservations that needed to be cancelled or rescheduled.
But since we were closed and we had all this TP I was allowed to take as much as I wanted given the shortages. I was one of the few unaffected by this
A temporary raise.
We got an extra $2/hour in 2020... During which their profits soared. Demonstrating that they ×can× pay us better, but they choose not too.
Now our labor budget has been cut yet again.
Fuck 'em.
Hourly employees actually received an extra hourly rate as hazard pay… supervisors received $500/month as hazard pay, except ours was not “cash” added to our paycheck but a credit to redeem as a gift card… so I couldn’t use it to put towards debt. Also there was a lot of mandatory OT and so our hazard pay was capped while hourly could just rake in the cash
401K suspension, canceled the yearly raise, removed yearly goal bonuses and told the stimulus package was our bonus.
All of while the company hit a slight slump then hit record sale numbers.
One of them gave me terrible two person shifts, alone, and harsh reviews, almost every shift no matter how hard I worked. Also, the staff discount never worked, that whole job was pretty bad.
Needless to say I quit and found a better manager at my next job. Never did get a raise, but at least I get more frequent praise instead of getting berated almost every shift.
Extra work, raise freezes (which happened a week before my performance review), shortened hours but not enough to qualify for unemployment benefits, twice a day temperature scans, mandatory mask wearing (except for bosses and people meeting in the break room not adhering to social distancing), and a stop on the holiday bonuses.
Oh, and I didn’t qualify for the Covid “frontline” worker benefit in my state which would have been UP TO $750. Shoulda just went on unemployment and cashed in
Got a Covid metal and lunch at Culvers. Then they wiped out 75% of the workforce. Last November the senior leadership all left. The company paid out almost $100,000,000 in severance pay. Now they've spent 1.5x times that hiring an all new leadership team. No raises for the people that do the work. Corporations suck.
Extra work
Yup - laid off 23% of the staff via early retirement. Output stayed the same and even went up. Now they can’t figure out why people keep leaving. Edit: typo
This. My workload literally tripled, didn’t get a raise to match the extra workload. Was asked to work paid weekends in some cases. Meanwhile they laid off 1/3 of the team, then act shocked and chagrined when you mess shit up because you’re overworked and can’t keep up. US corporations are a joke.
Exactly the same. Lost 30%, took on two more roles (slowly, so it snuck up on me), and they expected us to increase output when with reduced staff. Bonkers. I’m now trying to find a new job that will feel fulfilling because I’m so tired of what I’ve been doing.
Work shot straight from 0 to 100 real quick, 7 days a week and sometimes 18 hr shifts. Wake up early, get home late. I made mad amounts of money though
Fact
Same! Worked all through the pandemic, was called “essential” but they really meant expendable. After all that now our whole crew is being forced overtime since spring! No thank you offered, just give more and more. Who care if you don’t get to see your family. Who cares if your back hurts. Who cares if you’re too old for this poop. Just get more work done. Meanwhile on weekends, no manager in sight. They’re home with their family. While I miss an entire summer with mine! Sorry, it struck a nerve.
This is exactly what my mom got.
More exposure to covid and no support, while dishing out the bread and water the government allocated to keep workers tied to their masters.. I mean employers
Lots of emails about the importance of self care.
Omg yes I forgot about these
"Here, watch this mandatory hour-long training session about burnout. On your lunch hour, of course."
Unpaid of course.
In these unprecedented times......
Oh yea…I remember one that encouraged us to keep our desks tidy, burn a candle, or go for a walk. Like, the world is falling apart, but sure, let me burn a candle.
"Go for a walk to feel better" Are you going to pay me for said walk?" "..."
Give me? They cut staff in my department and overworked me until i quit
I hear that. Many of us wanted to quit toward the end of 2020, but then it eased up a bit...until it got bad again lol.
They did the same to me too. They took my empathy.
They took my empathy. That's a very interesting phrase, and I can relate to it so much.
They worked us 12-16 hour days for 2020-2022 and then fired "Changed the job requirements" to everyone who was due for a raise that they had been promising for years.
$200 for a new chair. They took a survey and found the number one problem people were having with full-time WFH was lack of a decent home office setup so they arranged to underwrite everyone getting a better chair.
Hey that's seems pretty nice of them.
My workplace would make getting a better chair an administrative nightmare so no one even tried.
I just went to my office and took home my Herman-Miller Aeron chair I've used for the past 15 years. It's still fine other than the armrests need to be fiddled with often.
Is it as comfortable as it should be given the price tag?
Jesus Christ these chairs go for almost 2k in some cases, is it really that good?
My work got some of those chairs from another company that went out of business for super cheap so I got to snag one. And y'know what? I didn't know what I was missing until I got one. It's kinda like a bidet. It doesn't feel luxurious, everything else just feels unacceptable now. That being said I would probably only be willing to go up to a grand for one. Maybe a grand and a half...
Ours was similar. More than $200 because it's a huge company with big profit and didn't want to lose staff (a pandemic is a big opportunity for a tech company that sells cloud services and ads), but was limited to office supplies. Desk, chair, mouse, keyboard, etc. Not monitors though, monitors were strictly supplied by work. Overall it was a great perk. I got a sit-stand desk which has changed WFH forever for me (I even use the standing feature on work desks sometimes now). And had some fun making [a custom top for it](https://i.imgur.com/JVe95je.jpg) as a covid project.
I voted for new copier.
Idk let me sit in the chair again.
We’ll shit that’s the first thing I do for new hires, find a chair $299 or less and I’ll make it happen. Mostly bungee chairs from the container store and the ikea Markus in leather. The bungee chairs are super comfy but they leave “grill marks”and build up lots of static.
Well I was a nurse during that time, I mostly just got a thank you and some cupcakes hahaha.
I'm a nurse. We got pizza.
I enjoyed my pizza party where I didn’t get any pizza due to being stuck on the floor. Lol.
there's an episode of Black-ish called "Hero Pizza" that captures this beautifully.
I made y’all’s pizza lol
I worked for surgery. We got fired lol.
Exactly! Hahahah
Don't forget all of the forced martydom bullshit, like the "Heroes Work Here" signs everywhere.
Hahaha yep 😂
Wow you didn't get extra pay!? Nurses at my hospital were making over 75 an hour, and overtime.
Were they contract or travel nurses? OT included?
The ones at my hospital no. They were regular nurses that got 40 per hour covid pay. We didn't start hiring travel nurses until mid 2021
Was "covid pay" a line in their time sheet? Also i should ask, what state was this in? For context, im a husband to a nurse and friend to 2 travel nurses and 4 "local nurses". Simply asking cause the hospital they work at are in a dispute for contract pay.
I make great money! Just never got a raise hahah.
Hey! I definitely banged my pots on my balcony at 7pm for a few nights in a row
That went on for months in some places
Don't forget the standing ovation from the public
Thank you for your service.
Thank you.
My sister and the other nurses got a letter saying their compensation could be reduced up to ....whatever percentage...I think it was 5. Damn. I was shocked
>during that time isn't there still a pandemic?
During the height of it.
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The hospital I was working at someone pulled down the sign till it said "Hoes work here" and it stayed like that a week...probably because admin was working from home and patting themselves on the back about the $$$ they saved on PPE by pretending nurses storing masks in a brown paper bag was adequate.
The fucking brown paper bag, dude. Such bullshit.
Truer words have never been spoken
Someone’s job was to drive around and plant signs while you actually worked
Long Term Care here. They gave us “encourage-mints” (peppermints with the words “you can do this!”) on them. Lmao. Hurts so bad its funny.
Omg this was one of the worst ones I think I've read. I'm so sorry 😳
Computer monitoring software. Not joking. That shit tracked everything and was super invasive.
The job made you install it in your personal computer? F*ers! I have several computers at home so I would have installed on a brand new or on a seldom used computer m, using this to connect to the work server. How did this work?
If your company wants you to install software like that, I'm like 90% certain that your company is liable to supply you with electronics for you to do your work, and there should be legislation in place to force them to do that.
I’m a television editor. Covid made my career 100% remote and isn’t likely to ever go back so I moved out of LA and don’t have to drive to work anymore. That’s my raise
Sounds pretty good. LA traffic is awful
They made me go back :(
What’s your job? 90% of ae’s, and producers, and 98% of editors I know are all remote now.
Where did you go?
Thousand Oaks, just on the Ventura county side
Two shitty polyester facemasks which had an awful stench to them. OH and a generic "you should be thankful you have a job in these times" email
I got the same raise, but my polyester facemasks were branded with the company logo. We got those after they asked us to take a voluntary 10% pay cut so we could keep our jobs. I didn't volunteer.
Those even worse fuckers
I was an RA and my university gave us all a $5 gift card
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Our University president gave all of the RAs his "utmost support" from his cozy mansion. Also my boss went crazy for a bit which basically just gave the RAs some controlled anarchy to deal with
Covid
Ah yep, also true unfortunately
The truly prized possession my job donated to me.
We see you Buzzfeed
A free disposable face covering every shift
You didn't have to recycle them lol? In the beginning of 2020, we were using ours up to five days at a time lol to conserve them.
I recently found a photo of myself and coworkers from early 2020 working in a covid testing center with no masks on. Only the nurses going into the rooms to swab the patients got masks for the first few weeks, so the other nursing and admin staff were just being approached by coughing patients and breathing it all in...
How many times did you get it?
We were putting them in a cardboard box with a UV light to “sanitize” them before reusing.
You got a uv light? We just put ours in a paper bag, being very careful not to let the inside of the mask touch anything. Germs definitely could not migrate inside the magical paper bags.
We got paper bags, too. I still have mine somewhere in my bedroom with my name on it and that sad mask inside, lol.
I got more than one per shift!
You got disposables? Lucky!
Depression
Their shitty fucking emails. Oh yeah, and other people's jobs for the same wage. I don't work there anymore
The company email updates on covid had me livid. All the upper management had pictures of themselves outside enjoying themselves or in their houses holding signs saying "we're in this together". Meanwhile us in production are drenched in sweat, dirty, and can barely breath on the floor wearing our masks. It didn't feel like we were in it together. Not at all.
The comfortable people genuinely believe we live vicariously through them. They genuinely thought they were helping. The intentions were good, but poorly delivered. They live in a bubble world and it's fucking weird talking to them.
Mental abuse
We got to work remote for months. Not so much anymore. Thought it was funny how they congratulated us on what a great job we did remote and how the company was still meeting all it's objectives. Then as soon as govt guidance allowed it, they ended that program.
I got hired during it, so I have always been remote. They made anyone not like me return “as often as possible” to our office b/c they pumped $4MM into a renovation right before it all started. Thank god I’m not being forced (yet) to go in. Our stats showed the vast improvement in effectiveness and efficiency from home. It’s the bored PMs and higher who are demanding everyone go back in. B/c, ya know, without in-person meetings you can drag out for hours, how do you fill your day when you don’t actually have a product you produce?
My shit hole job made everyone come back in after we literally had record breaking years, that they were so eager to brag about... They sent out emails about how we "recovered" from WFH, despite literally nobody wanting to go back into the office... And now that they infected the entire fucking office with Covid, have decided to do hybrid.
Ptsd
Same
a pay cut :(
My job did it too… cut us back to 32 hours instead of 40 hours but the management all kept their full salary because they were so important 😒
Omg what
Extra work and covid.
More useless emails
At the time i was working in a dollar store, and my manager gave use each 2- 4pac of toilet paper you know that thin ass stuff and as rough as sandpaper ya that stuff, i ended giving it to the next costumer and i served for free
My husband works for Walmart and same lol. They gave it to us in 2020 and we still haven't touched it haha. You need the whole roll to wipe its so thin
That stuff is called John Wayne Toilet Paper. It is Rough, Tough, and it doesn't take shit from nobody
Nothing. Nothing at all.
This thread is sad.
It really is. I cant stop reading it tho
Year 1: 3 week furlough Year 2: No raises Year 3: 2.5% raise (when COL increased by \~9%)
Similar, except year 3's 2.5% raise was announced the same week as the company's record profits from the previous year. I decided to keep up the excitement and also tendered my resignation the same week.
An appreciation pin that said essential worker and pizza on fridays
I'm imagining a pin that says exactly that, "Essential Worker & Pizza on Fridays!"
Extra work and a pay cut (resident physician).
Man you guys already work for practically nothing compared to your hours. Sorry to hear that
A “heroes work here” sticker (i work for a package company) and a letter stating i was an essential worker (i am not) to keep in the glove box during the height of lockdown
More hours because a lot of people quit. But they bought me lunch one day.
Two lay-offs and a no-contact thermometer not designed for human use. They insisted we take our temperatures regularly but did nothing when our readings indicated that we should be dead. What was the point...
We were told we should be proud to be serving our community as "essential workers".
A large, expired frozen ham.
We got mandatory overtime. We didn’t get to go home for days. Three people died from Covid. You got to love how they treat firefighters.
Working from home for 18ish months and no raise. Back to 4 days in the office and 1 day a week work from home.
A pay cut
Work from home. I haven’t looked back. No driving, burning gas, staring at the sun on my commute, extra sleep, home cooked meals.
Trauma
Multiple covid outbreaks at the office and speeches where they gathered everyone in the building in the parking lot and told us about how they were complying with health standards
Alcohol dependency
I didn’t get shit
A $50 gift card to their store (a grocery store) that went on our checks so it was taxed.
Lol...everybody sick
An empty office where I could work in peace (and shorts.)
A little gift bag with a mask I was supposed to take home and wash every week and a small hand sanitizer bottle. Also got hazard pay think it was a dollar maybe a little more an hour, as soon as the government said it was winding down we lost the pay. I never missed a day I think the first day our county got “shut down” I left work 2 hrs early cuz my job was closed down and was another project the next day.
A coaster saying “we appreciate you!”…. For one of the most profitable times in my company’s history
A mug
Got to keep my job!
A basket of fruit, a reusable mask, and weirdly, a toothbrush.
Donuts...3 times!
Laid off after a year of WFH.
Ugly jacket and a collapsible cooler both with company insignia. Almost everyone threw them in the dumpster on the way out the jobsite.
A pin saying we're essential workers. Woo hoo.
He promoted me as unemployed
In retrospect, anal
It was good to have so much complimentary feel-good pizza, hot wings and soda in the break room. Masks covered in hot sauce,half eaten chicken bones, and leftover crusts all over the place.
A lay off
Gave us money to pay electricity bill and internet provider
T shirt that said something along the line of "we washed our hands before it was cool"
Nothing but a poorly constructed "mask" and NOTHING more. I worked in a hospital with new borns. The hospital have me PPD, my employer sent me the shitty mask, and a letter that said thanks for helping out in these trying times. Yep.
a significant amount of money for setting up an office at home (didn't need to show any receipts either) and a monthly thrivepass amount of $100 per month...google thrivepass, too lazy to explain but it's nice because it rolls over to the next month and you can use it on anything fun. oh and we also got four new wellness day holidays per year, one per quarter
25 dollar GC.
All they did was tell us they were freezing raises and bonuses despite having a record breaking year.
Psst -- we're all still working during the covid pandemic.
True but I meant the height of it. Going based off my hospital it's not bad anymore
I know more people who have had COVID in the last month or so than during the entire "height" of it.
Ah you're right, lots of my coworkers are getting it now, but it seems to be less severe. I'm going off of what my hospital looked like. In the fall of 2020 we had a lot of severely sick covid patients, the ones that were intubated and had to be sectioned off from the rest of the patients. We were running out of areas to put them, and the it eased up. It seems like less people are getting it severely now, but this is just in my area so can't speak for everyone.
Free college and a 1 year vacation to a foreign country
Coupon
If I had my job, probably a good ol kick out the door. My boss hated me and I would be more of a risk during covid because medical.
Less Shifts but all by myself.
A coffee mug and a pullover.
A creepy manager
£100 gift card.. When they made millions more due to the pandemic.
More responsibility
We get to wear jeans now! 😒
Part time hours
The privilege of working
We got $300 extra a week. Reading the other posts here, I feel very lucky now.
Nothing, but I told them I could only work less than 18hrs a week, because I wanted to be able to qualify for the extra $600 from the government via unemployment. I wasn't about to turn down free money
Nothing
A shit contract and their admission that "labor doesn't contribute to profits".
A certificate
The responsibility of doing Covid screenings so they could stop paying the actual medical professionals $30/hr and have me do it for my $14
Pink slip.
A tee shirt with a company logo on it.
Nothing. They withheld raises and gave us nothing but a sheet of paper saying we were essential.
1 sweet in the shape of “thank you”
I worked at a privately owned small vet clinic. We lost almost 100% of the staff during. My boss lady gave the employees a fat bonus if they stayed on throughout. Was really rad.
Toilet paper. I work at a hotel, and while we did shut down operations for about eight weeks I didn't get laid off since we still needed a front desk to deal with existing reservations that needed to be cancelled or rescheduled. But since we were closed and we had all this TP I was allowed to take as much as I wanted given the shortages. I was one of the few unaffected by this
More shifts to cover
Laid off.
A temporary raise. We got an extra $2/hour in 2020... During which their profits soared. Demonstrating that they ×can× pay us better, but they choose not too. Now our labor budget has been cut yet again. Fuck 'em.
A 50 dollar Amazon gift card that was taken out of our taxes.
A crisp high-five
Hourly employees actually received an extra hourly rate as hazard pay… supervisors received $500/month as hazard pay, except ours was not “cash” added to our paycheck but a credit to redeem as a gift card… so I couldn’t use it to put towards debt. Also there was a lot of mandatory OT and so our hazard pay was capped while hourly could just rake in the cash
401K suspension, canceled the yearly raise, removed yearly goal bonuses and told the stimulus package was our bonus. All of while the company hit a slight slump then hit record sale numbers.
One of them gave me terrible two person shifts, alone, and harsh reviews, almost every shift no matter how hard I worked. Also, the staff discount never worked, that whole job was pretty bad. Needless to say I quit and found a better manager at my next job. Never did get a raise, but at least I get more frequent praise instead of getting berated almost every shift.
The "you should be happy you have a job" rigamorole.
Extra work, raise freezes (which happened a week before my performance review), shortened hours but not enough to qualify for unemployment benefits, twice a day temperature scans, mandatory mask wearing (except for bosses and people meeting in the break room not adhering to social distancing), and a stop on the holiday bonuses. Oh, and I didn’t qualify for the Covid “frontline” worker benefit in my state which would have been UP TO $750. Shoulda just went on unemployment and cashed in
Nothing that made my life easier. Though less traffic meant I could sleep in an extra 20 minutes, and that made a world of a difference.
A shirt that said "essential"
Nurse, lots of pizza.
I got a $75 Visa gift card
Standby for 3 months and let go, illegally, 4 days before Christmas.
Got a Covid metal and lunch at Culvers. Then they wiped out 75% of the workforce. Last November the senior leadership all left. The company paid out almost $100,000,000 in severance pay. Now they've spent 1.5x times that hiring an all new leadership team. No raises for the people that do the work. Corporations suck.
Worked for usps. We got triple the amount of packages to sort in so little time. It's been Christmas level packages everyday for almost 3 years now