I’m a nurse. I work for a large hospital chain 8 hours a week. Used to work there full time but they’re just one giant piece of shit. The other hospital I work for is a small private set up. 2 weeks ago was nurses week. I didn’t get anything from either hospital. the big chain has had problems with keeping staff because they work us short basically every night, and all they care about is patient satisfaction scores, while continuing to cut down on money they spend. So during the past two years they’ll have mandatory pick up shifts for everyone. So with the 8 hours once a week in a six week period I work 48 hours, which is 12 hours over my 36 hour six week minimum requirement. It takes care of the extra shift, my last three bosses said that was ok(Yepp I’ve now had 4 different bosses in 2 years). The newest one texted me telling me I had pick up an actual 12 hour shift for it to count because the new managers decided they would be the fairest thing. Meaning I’m doing 16 hours instead of 12 like everyone else. This kind of short sidedness is why they are hemorrhaging staff.
Cracker Barrel breakfast is fire the grandpa’s country fried breakfast is a Sunday hangover delicacy. I miss living 2 miles from one. Don’t think I’ve eaten a non-breakfast meal there since I was a kid though
I like their breakfast where the egg is in the middle of their toast. Try to avoid it though I like local places better And I never got shit from my old job, was only employee and worked there for over 17 years. When I recently quit my boss was actually emotional about it, I assumed he didn't give a shit (I didn't). On my last day he gave me a present in the shape of a watch. He's a Rolex guy so got a little excited for a second bc I would immediately resell it. But it was a gold money clip lol. I don't carry much cash and I can't sell it bc my initials are on it. Dude paid like $500 for it too If anyone has same initials it's yours for $100 obo
We gave everybody a 10% raise Jan.1, in addition to generous year-end bonuses. Nobody gives a fuck about parties or awards
I agree with the overall sentiment of this - but have to admit we got a ton of pushback from staff on eliminating the Christmas party and company outings. But obviously hospitality industry I'm sure is dramatically different than almost any other on that front.
Honestly a huge bonus structure right now for employees is referring new employees. Obviously it's extremely difficult to hire right now - we have bussers/servers/cooks/etc that have referred like 5 new employees and received an extra $2,500 for bringing solid employees to the business.
I worked at Burlington, a rug mill, that would give you $5 if you went the whole year without missing a day. $5. This was in the 90s.
Me and my wife actually met hooking up when we worked night shift in an ER 14 years ago. Everyone was screwing someone at work during that time. Fun times.
We got an employee survey recently. The CEO announced it and followed up by listing all the good things administration had done the past year. Very odd. Do you want honest answers to this to improve the company? Why are you trying to put your finger on the scale as these surveys go out? I know the answer but your'e not supposed to make it obvious.
My company handed out 2-5% raises whilst announcing $4b in stock buybacks. Despite the $4b buyback our stock is in the shitter this year We have about 100,000 employees according to google so they could have literally given everyone about $40k and they probably wouldn’t be dealing with mass turnover and probably would’ve improved the stock price organically by having happy employees
At least they are buying back the stock when it's in the shitter and not when it's at all time highs like a lot of companies do.
this isn't hard pay competitive wages staff appropriately don't micro-manage acknowledge above and beyond work provide ping pong tables
I worked at two different companies that had ping pong tables. Both companies made you feel guilty for playing during work hours. I’m absolutely not about to hang around after work to play ping pong with coworkers.
It's so incredibly mind numbing how it's just perfectly legal for companies to continually buy back their stock instead of just helping out their employees then being shocked when they experience turnover.
Before VPN when I would have to go in after hours a ping pong table would have been nice to sleep on.
Now that my office is at home I have a ping-pong table in my office. Spoiler I have nobody to play ping pong with. Would someone like to come over and play ping pong?
My office is a ping pong table. Spoiler We bounce you around til you hopefully don't care anymore or forgot what you wanted and go away.
Worked for an oil and gas tech place that had a massage chair and ping pong tables. A few months in we had an all hands on deck staff meeting where the bosses asked for our feedback. Multiple people brought up the shit pay and they straight up told us we wouldn’t get any pay increases because 1. They were content for us to use them as a launching pad into bigger/better/high paying jobs and 2. They priced in the “quality of life” of living somewhere as “vibrant and fun” as Austin Needless to say I got my ass out within a couple of months to go to a better paying job in an industry that wasn’t actively killing the earth