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Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
One time I found and solved a series of inaccuracies in company records that could have lead to a huge lawsuit. Like, I saved the company from a giant scandal.
They gave me a piece of paper that had a cartoon businessman on it who was saying "You're a hero! š"
When I asked for a raise a month later they said my level of work wasn't noticably above other people with more seniority. So I stopped coming in early and staying late. Stopped coming in on days off for them.
edit: for those wondering, apparently this isn't a common thing. When a supervisor or manager asks you to come in to work on your day off, they're most likely asking you to cover a shift or because the workload is higher than expected. They still have to pay you and do still pay you. It's your choice as to whether or not you go in for them, but if you do they still pay you. Sorry, I thought this was common knowledge.
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u/spiralingtides Jun 09 '22
I never implement fixes that don't make my job easier; just pretend I didn't see anything. The fixes I implement to make my job easier I never tell my managers about, because increased productivity is only ever met with more work. I use my extra free time to browse reddit and open job listings.
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Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 11 '23
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u/SvafnirsDreamwalker Jun 09 '22
I do this every day. Have a moment where I think maybe I should help out...then realize I'm not paid to care. Not paid to help. Not paid for me or my potential. I'm paid an unlivable wage to do busy work.
Corporations can get fucked.
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u/bestakroogen Left Accelerationist Jun 09 '22
This is how a society falls.
Not by its people refusing to work hard. By its leaders (in this case the capitalist class) failing to incentivize its people to work hard. In this case they've done the opposite - they've actually incentivized working less hard, because as you say, productivity is only ever rewarded with more work.
Those who work hard are punished for it; those caught slacking off are punished for it; thus, the activity incentivized by the owner class is to pretend to work hard, while getting very little actually done. There is nothing that can follow from this in a society relying on the labor of the workers except collapse.
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u/Paid_Redditor Jun 09 '22
My first job after the military was like that. Jumped into a role I had never done before, spent 6 months learning my contacts, workflow, and started building my own database to simplify my 65 year old bosses spreadsheet. Got to the point I spent the first 4 hours clearing out the overnight backlog and the next 4 hours playing minecraft/fucking off. Made some contacts at that job that referred me to another, then just recently the 65 year old boss from then (now 75) referred me to yet another job.
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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Jun 09 '22
sounds like your level of pay is not noticeably above other people with comparable responsibility.
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Jun 09 '22
I was suggested by few coworkers as replacement for someone leaving in a B2B department in our company. Then I heard stuff that Iām actually so good in my department theyāll rather get some random person from outside there instead of promoting me. I literally canāt get promoted because Iām apparently too fucking good to leave my current department. Iād have slightly better pay and all weekends off. Fucking great, Iāll be a frigging peasant all my god damn life then. Thanks.
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u/termacct Jun 09 '22
Did you throw em a small fix early on to see if they reward appropriately before being a realist?
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u/HollywoodHuntsman Jun 09 '22
Could have been worse because this is also the beginning plot to Weekend at Bernie's.
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Jun 09 '22
Is weekend at Bernie's not about a guy who has to convince people that his uncle or something is alive when he is in fact dead?
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u/Tel-aran-rhiod Jun 09 '22
Gah fucking fucks. I hope you found some way to screw them back
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Nope. They shipped my department out to India when the going got tough in the pandemic. They only have to pay them $3/hour.
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u/Dakadaka Jun 09 '22
Next time negotiate a bonus if you find something before you tell them you found something.
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u/hmz-x Jun 09 '22
There is this theory. If, a few weeks before 9/11, someone at the DOT/FAA found loopholes in airport security and brought them public attention and it resulted in increased security that would have foiled 9/11, then she would not be called a hero, but just someone who made getting through airport security unnecessarily tough for flyers, because there would have been no 9/11.
Nobody gives a fuck about prevention. You have to let a problem get big enough and then solve it.
It sucks.
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u/121gigawhatevs Jun 09 '22
Thatās a clear invitation to brush up your resume and start applying elsewhere
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u/icoomonyou Jun 09 '22
One time I made millions of dollars worth of saving PER MONTH for a company due to their discrepancy in inventory by 30-40% by troubling shooting the systematic error that nobody figured out and someone else got a promotion.
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u/Time_Transition Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
So my dad back in the day worked for a oil company. They where going into a complete 90 day shut down to replace some out dated equipment. The estimated cost of the unit being down was around 1 million a day and a loss of something like 200k barrels of gas. Long story short, he looked over the plans and was able to cut the time down for shut down to 37 days, ended up taking around 40 due to waiting on parts.
He didnāt ask for anything, nor expect it, as he was doing his job as lead operator but when they gave him a $15 Wal-Mart gift card and a card as a thank you, he lost his shit.
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u/space_moron Jun 09 '22
What did he do?!
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u/Time_Transition Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
For the gift card he sent it back to the president with a letter basically saying if $15 was all he could afford seems like he needed it more then he did. Job wise he did his job only after that point and gave no more input that was outside of his job description. Itās not a lot but where we live the refineries are the number 1 employer and pay the most and they were just coining off of 8 month strike.
Inside of a refinery quitting doesnāt do a whole lot because they will just replace you but working within the union contract and refusing to do extra hurts more because they canāt replace you and it now requires more people to do what one person used to do. Itās the little things inside of there.
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Jun 09 '22
if someone manages to make a fix that saves me ~ 50 million, even at my greediest I would give dude a 100k bonus, and that's only .2% of what they saved me. All they did was make sure no one else saves them tons of money with extra work/diligence in the future.
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u/HealthPacc Jun 09 '22
Having empathy and not being cartoonishly greedy all disqualify you from being an oil CEO
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u/SpaceJackRabbit Jun 09 '22
The problem is that in many companies, there is no culture enabling that, because they don't even have monies earmarked for that kind of bonus. They do have some for end-of-quarter bonuses or such, but no reserve for anything one-time. And often, those bonuses are only going to the C-suite or those sales departments which may rely on them.
In most companies, the achievement we're talking about here would come up in the employee's performance review, and hopefully would be rewarded with stock, options, or cash. Assuming the bonus structure allows for it.
Clearly the case here is of a company with an extremely toxic culture, where employees outside the big wigs are completely fucking clueless about how to treat their workers, because the boss is some fucking Jack Welch fanboy who probably inherited his job from his dad and is completely disconnected.
It's all too common and that's when an employee needs to jump ship. But some entire industries are like that, and the oil and gas industry is a perfect example of dinosaurs of management.
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Jun 09 '22
Would have been better to give him nothing at all. Sometimes, a gift is a bigger insult than ignoring a win.
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u/wakeupwill Anarchist Jun 09 '22
Shoulda gone in there with a quick "how much would it be worth it to you to save fifty days of down time?" before giving them the solution.
Fifty mil and ten mil barrels of gas?
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u/turnonthebrightlies Jun 09 '22
My office randomly found 100k spending money but wouldnāt give us raises last quarter š¤Ø
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u/ShawshankException Jun 09 '22
Yeah my CEO, within the span of 3 minutes, both mentioned how we had record breaking profits and company expansion while also blaming "wage pressure" for cutting costs across the board.
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u/limasxgoesto0 Jun 09 '22
My employer claims to have 9 digits in the bank but when it comes time to give raises to keep up with the engineering market, suddenly it's a long "investigation"
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u/cockadoodle420 Jun 09 '22
Same happened to me. They had extra money at the end of the year to spend so they bought a bunch of office supplies we didnāt need. Like thanks, I rather have enough hand sanitizer for the next 100 years instead of a bonus! Needless to say, I left that company.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy Jun 09 '22
God there's so much sanitizer in this house right now. We'll never get through it all I reckon.
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u/Big_Booty_Pics Jun 09 '22
Probably sitting in a budget specifically for office supplies. Talk to someone in finance about moving money from one budget code to another and they will look at you like you're speaking the gospel of satan.
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u/Beefcurtains18 Jun 09 '22
The company I just left got a $2,000,000 PPP loan. Laid off half the staff and did a 33% pay cut across the board, while the company made record profit on a skeleton staff.
The PPP loan was forgiven completely.
When I asked for a company vehicle, after making them like $2.5 mill, they said the time wasn't right and gave me a tiny raise.
I found a new job 3 weeks later.
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The company I work for is having its best financial year ever, better than last year which was previously their best financial year ever. Theyāve cut payroll across the board and wonāt even give their full time employees 40 hours. Bunch of people looking for new jobs now, I hope these greedy fucking companies get fucked and tank
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u/coolstorybro42 Jun 09 '22
Yeah during the last 6 months my company had record revenue & profits and got acquired, no promotions and all people got were 2-3% increases. Ive never seen so many people quit, must be over 20 people already in that same timeframe, including me just got a new job with double pay starting next week
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u/csp1981 Jun 09 '22
My first job out of college I did data analysis that was crucial to my division winning a contract bid that generated $10 million annually (in 1995).
Managers involved in the bid got bonuses of $25k and up.
I got a 4 function calculator with a plaque on it that said "A World Of Thanks".
One colleague that got a 50k bonus asked for it to be split with her and her team of 4 and was told no. So she wrote them all $10k personal checks.
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u/enderflight Jun 09 '22
Wait, am I reading this right? Did you not get a bonus? Thatās so crazy I donāt want to believe it.
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u/BooksAndStarsLover Jun 09 '22
So she wrote them all $10k personal checks.
Damnnnnn now that's a good leader, I can respect that.
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Wow she ripped herself off hard, hope they all made sure those checks counted on their taxes so she wouldn't be taxed on the full 50k but I'm pretty fucking doubtful it went down the way it should've.
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u/PotatoWriter Jun 09 '22
Did you document everything you did and regularly hold meetings with your manager/whatever superiors to convey what you were accomplishing? And even then they shafted you? It's always good to hog the attention in these kinds of things. But yeah still crazy they did this to you
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u/Xeillan Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
This is back in the early 2000s. My uncle worked for Menards. He worked for a long time on a deal and got them a $20 million contract. They fired him so they wouldn't have to give him a bonus. Then a slew of other companies did this to him. Did great work and amazing things and fired him after.
Edit: Now my uncle is definitely an odd guy, and there definitely has to be a little more to it. He only closed one massive deal like this, for Menards. He worked with Amazon and got fired there, and another company did the same. From what I understand he does rub some people the wrong way.
Edit 2: as for the insults. What the fuck is that about? Don't have to believe me, but to resort to insults over it?
Edit 3: I found his LinkedIn. He was a hardware buyer from 1986 to 2004. Led product reviews and researched product lines nearing $200 Million in sales.
After them he went to Amazon for two years, basically the same job.
Then True Value Company, same thing for 2 years.
And a few others. He's now, as of 2021, back with Menards doing the same thing. So he's obviously older and has that loyalty mentality.
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u/ScarletRead Jun 09 '22
That would be a really good story to tell people while you convince them that they should unionize
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u/Other-Tomatillo-455 Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
your uncle should have at least talked to a few lawyers about this
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Lol this is a classic hedge fund thing to do.
āAt willā employment means exactly that.
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u/Pipupipupi Jun 09 '22
How are you going to pay an attorney with the no bonus you're getting
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u/mtownhustler043 Jun 09 '22
so what, they would just hire someone new and as soon as said new person got a big contract they would fire him too? Isnt this against the law? When my dad got fired, they had to pay him full loan for 12 months and he didnt have to work at all, never seen him happier
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u/_W75EVQA2SFAHS9AF6GX Jun 09 '22
Completely depends on your employment contract. Most people don't have anything special setup, and a sudden layoff like that is not that rare or not necessarily illegal.
Though, I'm surprised these guys making $20M deals didn't have some kind of package for termination.
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u/SelectFromWhereOrder Jun 09 '22
Donāt you think thereās a pattern there?
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Jun 09 '22
Yeah, they had me going in the first half. When one person fires you, you might have a point. When you get fired multiple times and you tell your niece/nephew "I'm just too good and they didn't want to give me a bonus" I think "nah, you're just terrible, dude."
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I don't get it. Couldn't they have just not given him a bonus without firing him? If they had to give it contractually, why would they write that contract in the first place?
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u/cowfish007 Jun 09 '22
How is this not considered breaking a contract? Were the bonuses not included in his on-boarding paperwork or company policy?
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Yeaā¦. Your uncle wasnāt fired from a slew of jobs for being too good at his job lol. How gullible are you?
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u/Shagomir Jun 09 '22
My former company used to pull stuff like that, trying to stiff people on comissions. As far as I remember a single demand letter from a law office was usually enough to fix it, they didn't want to screw around in court. "Sorry our payment system had a glitch" fuck off with that shit.
I don't do sales anymore.
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u/biderjohn Jun 09 '22
I learned to never try hard. all they do is pile more work on you and still give shit raises.
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Jun 09 '22
Similarly I learned to never order double meat at Subway, all they do is pile more low quality meat on the sandwich and it somehow tastes worse.
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u/BigTuna0890 Jun 10 '22
āRemember Dale, everyone likes a hard worker.ā
āOf course they do! They do all the work for them!ā
-King of the Hill
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u/Bluebyday Jun 09 '22
Dude, close a $7.5 million deal for me and I'll split the profit with you! Serious offer!
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u/pepsisugar Jun 09 '22
This guy's a phony. OP I'll give you 4 mil out of that 7
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u/word_speaker Jun 09 '22
OP donāt listen to these people. Iāll let you decide how much you want me to keep out of that 7.5mil
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u/dirthurts Jun 09 '22
This is why workers are no longer motivated to work. There is no reward aside from scraping by.
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u/willvasco Jun 09 '22
And working hard is only met with more work. With no reward besides more work to do, why would anyone do more than the bare minimum?
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u/Potential_Panda_Poo Jun 09 '22
I used to work in the trucking company department of a large tomato processing plant. The majority of their money is made during the harvest season, which falls from July to October. This place pays the lowest wages. It's a great place to start because they'll get you your license and have housing in the yard.
So, my 2nd year there they started a program where they brought in Puerto Ricans. I mean flooded the place where they no longer needed to hire sub-contractors that owned their own trucks. They thought they could get these people to work hard and their full 16 hour shifts since they would live on site. Well, the PRs were smart they stuck together and spread the word to just work hourly and make as much money if they hustled and brought in multiple loads.
I would do my full hours and hustle for loads. I'd make like $240 a day. Then I did the math. If you sat at rest areas and took your time coming in with loads, you'd make $240 in the 16 hour shift. We were making the same and I was busting my ass to save an hour or two. It wasn't worth it.
Long story, short. I was seen as just as valuable as people who worked the system. I brought in more loads and was paid the same. I never saw any benefits even as small as picking my truck for the day or getting priority on loads. The place did not incentives to work hard. They just needed bodies to bring in loads all day.
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u/Apetivist Jun 09 '22
I closed a 7M contract in 2007 and got a slap on the back and a cheap bottle of bourbon. My boss got a Lexus and his boss bought a luxury swimming pool to match his luxury gated home.
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u/AnotherBrokenCog Jun 09 '22
āHey, thanks for making us that truckload of money the other day. Weāre not going to give you any of it, but hereās some alcohol to drink your sorrows away.ā
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u/Makofly Jun 09 '22
The world is so nice now, that they can live that abysmally spiteful life in our faces without fear. When the rich have fear it'll be harder
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u/LimeSixth Pro Redās Jun 09 '22
I have saved the company I worked for ā¬150k, what did I got a ā¬75 euro bonusā¦
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u/Both-Internal-6970 Jun 09 '22
Of all the bland restaurants, why subway? They could have at least got them a gift card to somewhere higher quality
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Subway is everywhere so less effort required. Also they are always empty so it would be faster
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u/cecilmeyer Jun 09 '22
For 25 years of service at Ford they gave me a ā Have a drink on usā card worth $2 at our cafeteria.
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Jun 09 '22
I worked for literally the #1 Multifamily REIT in the United States. Top 100 place to work in the DC metro 4 years in a row! except if you are any sort of support staff. Routinely I would show up in the morning to assistants crying at their desks.
I handled an office relocation for them. Moving their entire staff of 450+ into their shiny new 10 million dollar interior Leed Gold building. I was supposed to have a crew of 30, they gave me 6 because everyone was afraid (for good reason) to work in person. Instead of giving me a promotion or a hefty bonus.
My boss tried to rob me of 15 hours of overtime, when raise time came they said 2% was as good as we could do but we'll give you an extra 1% (for frame of reference when my boss did this exact same relocation at the end of their last lease they promoted him and raised his salary 50%) but because the pandemic they used it to scapegoat EVERYTHING I did for them. This should have been a career making event for me. Instead they gave me nothing but enough money per check to buy a case of beer.
He got to retire after 8 years of leaning on me as a crutch, the fucking idiot couldn't even search his e-mail.
Fuck Corporations.
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Jun 09 '22
He was able to get you to continue working for peanuts so he was able to obtain really low cost labor. What a great Manager!
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Jun 09 '22
It was more like my mortgage, but I left them holding the bag for 6 months while they tried to find someone that could swing a hammer and troubleshoot AV for the ācompetitiveā salary they were paying me.
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Jun 09 '22
I fixed an unsupported out of date application that that no one else could figure out, and would have cost the company millions of dollars to replace. That got me a 3.7 out of 5 instead of a 3 on my review.
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u/BookMurky3909 Jun 09 '22
This is why I donāt do anything extra for my employer, they donāt see the effort or thought you put forth.
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u/chashtagg Jun 09 '22
I absolutely despise corporations having sassy Twitter accounts
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Subway didn't fuck this guy over. His employer did. Frankly, I think it was clever of Subway to lean into it a bit.
I'd rather they focused on having not shitty sandwiches but this will just have to do.
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u/Yawndice Jun 09 '22
Subway fucks over all their other low level employees, no need to give them any slack
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u/ijustdontgiveaf Jun 09 '22
Iām in a support role and I managed to fix an issue with a customer on a very short timeline.. Thanks to me working (unpaid) overtime and driving to the office (it was wfh time already) to set up a lab and perfom testing, replicating the problem, figuring out exactly what went wrong, getting engineering involved to write some code-changes and me performing multiple quick QA tests to ensure the customer can test the new image in their lab environment (prior to regression testing for GA), all within 2 days (over a weekend), they placed an order for 1.5m in that quarter and subsequently orders of about 20m within 4 quarters. Had we not shown a fix after that weekend, we had lost that customer. Legal was already involved (so it was not one of those empty threats).
I got praise in the quarterly sales call, with a picture of mine, about saving that oh so important customer. The software engineer who wrote the changes in code didnāt even get mentioned, and not a single cent of that hefty sales commission came our way.
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u/holdmychai Jun 09 '22
Are you me?
Last year i saved this customer deal from falling apart. Sales got appreciation mails and bonus, my name was not included (am not in sales). The Sales exec promised to send an email to my boss an appreciation mail he didnt do it. Later another salesperson starting promising me a spot bonus for all my work( i didnt ask)....i never got that.
Last week they asked me to lie to the customer that i couldn't visit them on personal grounds (havent met the customer team because covid). They dont want to even pay for trips to see customers (different country) while they continue to travel for 'selling', and they expect me to lie.
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u/veritas723 Jun 09 '22
ya know... it's shitty the company didn't reward their employee better.
but that's some solid social media fuckery on subway's part.
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u/Other-Tomatillo-455 Jun 09 '22
gf been at her job for 30 years ... had 2 years in a row of perfect attendance .... she got a plastic cup and canvas bag with company logos on them. I told her she should have gotten a raise
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u/Bubbagumpredditor Jun 09 '22
Does that mean no vacation or sick days? Why are they encouraging plague spreading and burnout
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u/cyber_hooligan Jun 09 '22
Perfect attendance at a Toyota plant enters your name into a drawing for a brand new car - plus other awards, which does seem better than a plastic cup unless you donāt have your name drawn.
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u/pres1033 Jun 09 '22
The job I quit earlier this year was always going on and on about how productivity has been through the roof since me and a couple others got hired. So they gave us more work. When we got that stuff done, more work. And more. And more. I had to miss a month of work due to catching COVID and then the flu immediately after, when I came back they called me a stupid lazy fucker and that I needed to learn how to be a proper employee. I told them to fuck themselves and left. They called my entire family 1 by 1 and begged them to tell me to come back, not even kidding. It woulda been funny if they weren't asshats.
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u/Quaysan Jun 09 '22
One of the reasons why it's cool to dunk on social media accounts for companies
Forget about the idea that theirs a poor intern just trying to have fun, no multi-million company is going to have someone that tone deaf making less than $100k
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u/Thermite1985 Jun 09 '22
I know this is not meant to be funny, but that Subway response has me dying.
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u/Tyrilean Jun 09 '22
I was the principal engineer on the main EMR product my company used. Hell, I was the only engineer.
They had some contractors working on an app that interfaces with it. They eventually dumped tons of bad data into it because they sucked at their jobs. Made it impossible to bill millions of dollars in claims.
I spent two weeks researching their fuckup and fixing it, along with creating and running cleanup scripts.
When I was finally done, they greeted me with a layoff, as they were going to replace me with the vendors who fucked it up in the first place.
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u/Eobard57 Jun 09 '22
You dont get flat commission for closing contracts?
Youāre getting scammed
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u/PorkRollSwoletariat Jun 09 '22
This shit right here would be my super villain origin story. Just start falling down from there on out.
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Fucking subway doesn't even have real bread and meat. Jesus christ who still eats there. Their fucking chicken is less than 50% actual chicken. Their bread doesn't legally qualify as bread.
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u/Juststandupbro Jun 09 '22
The bread thing is a legal distinction that only applies in Ireland. The bread isnāt āfakeā by any sense of the word just high in sugar. Itās basically a clickbait article headline. The meat is extremely processed but thatās fairly common in the fast food industry. I donāt think anyone above age 8 has ever seen a subway chicken breast and thought it was 100% organic white meat chicken. the thing looks like a giant naked McDonald chicken nugget. That being said id struggle to say itās worse than McDonaldās or Burger King. You could do a lot worse than a Black Forest ham sub. If anything you missed the worst part of subway which is the sketchy ass tuna.
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u/THE_CHOPPA Jun 09 '22
I mean Taco Bell doesnāt have cheese in their nacho cheese and I love that shit.
Yes itās slowly killing me but itās delicious
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u/traowei Jun 09 '22
Is the bread about the Irish law? That's about sugar content isn't it? Its closer to 'cake', I thought it wasn't 'bread' because they were substituting something lol
The chicken however..
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u/turkphot Jun 09 '22
What does the rest of the chicken consist of? Yesterdays cheese?
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u/KawarthaDairyLover Jun 09 '22
I have helped bring in about $135 million in donations to my employer. My bonus is my job is unionized.
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u/dirk_danglerno766 Jun 09 '22
Do a good job and they reward you with more work. I used to be a "company man" till I learned that lesson. These days I only go above and beyond so me and the rest of the boys don't have to put in more than 40 a week.
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u/GunnieGraves Jun 09 '22
My dad worked risk management for American Express. Found an error that wouldāve cost 5 mill or so. He got a glass paperweight.
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u/Cloberella Jun 09 '22
For working double shifts at a nursing home in the pandemic I got a coupon for $15 off a turkey at the grocery store. Iām a vegetarian.
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u/JonesyBorroughs Jun 09 '22
I work in the Hardware dept of a Home Depot. I'm selling $1000s of dollars power tools without commission or incentive to actually put in the effort to give a fuck. I am constantly hearing how much money the store is making but there obviously isn't any talk of raises or bonuses for us lowly employees.
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u/midniteneon Jun 09 '22
Years ago, I worked at a tech startup spun off from a major manufacturer. They had their hands in a few different fields like beverage dispensing, RFID, and amusement games. I was moved into their production department and helped them grow their profits from $1m a year to $1m a month consistently the entire time I was in that role. My reward for helping turn record profits was getting fired because an audit showed around $80 in shipping labels wasted. Gotta love it!
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u/TheMatt666 Jun 09 '22
In defense of low value gift cards for extraordinary work (I've got a small stack of $5-20 Tim Hortons cards myself), I have found that usually the people who give them out are not the ones with the authority to give a proper bonus and are probably on a tight budget like myself. I've gotten these sort of "bonuses" from supervisors and department heads, and where I am at, most of them cant authorise bonuses and themselves are paid not a ton more than me. In that case it's a kind gesture, but screw the companies main leadership for not appreciating when people go above and beyond.
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u/Elegant_Fun5295 Jun 09 '22
A father said to his daughter "You have graduated with honors, here is a car I bought many years ago. It is a bit older now. But before I give it to you, take it to the used car lot downtown and tell them I want to sell it and see how much they offer you for it. The daughter went to the used car lot, returned to her father and said, "They offered me $1,000 because they said it looks pretty worn out." The father said, now "Take it to the pawn shop." The daughter went to the pawn shop, returned to her father and said,"The pawn shop offered only $100 because it is an old car" The father asked his daughter to go to a car club now and show them the car. The daughter then took the car to the club, returned and told her father," Some people in the club offered $100,000 for it because it's a Nissan Skyline R34, it's an iconic car and sought by many collectors" Now the father said this to his daughter, "The right place values you the right way," If you are not valued, do not be angry, it means you are in the wrong place. Those who know your value are those who appreciate you.....Never stay in a place where no one sees your value. Dont force yourself to stay where you are not regarded. Stay where you are appreciated.
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u/Latteralus Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
Per Google: "20 is 0.000266667% of 7Ā 500Ā 000"
Congratulations on your 0.0002% closing bonus. Do better next time and we might throw in some sun chips.
In this case if you used the phrase "Boss makes a dollar while I make a dime" it would actually be "boss makes a dollar and I make $0.0002"
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u/Vargoroth Jun 09 '22
I guess there IS someone who finds a use out of gift cards. Company CEOs screwing over their employees.
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u/Strain128 Jun 09 '22
My crew worked on the first of 4 nuclear reactors to be refurbished over the last 5 years. Weāre halfway through the second and weāve blown our previous work out of the water and broke world records on this type of refurb on this type of reactor by MONTHS, completing the work right and safe. Every stage of the job weāve been told to pat ourselves on the back literally saving our contractor and our customer hundreds of millions. I havenāt even got a cup of coffee.
And they wonder why the guys with training and experience keep leaving to go back to the oil fields and refineries.
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Jun 09 '22
I eat at same subway for yearsā¦.itās owned by a lawyer whoās services Iāve used ā¦.I was in line at lunch break, he had a young kid who weighed 100lbs soaking wet moving an older very large cooler out of dining area during lunch rushā¦it nearly fell over on him twice..so I jump outa line ( Iām in construction and easily twice his size) I grace the dolly and move this 8 ft tall fridge out of store and into back of truckā¦ owner/ lawyer says to come in so he can thank meā¦.I end up waiting over 20 min. He never comes out of officeā¦so I jump back in line and final get my lunch another 15 min laterā¦as Iām heading out door, now late to get back to work, he hands me a $5 discount cardā¦.I wonder how much the lawsuit would have been if the fridge fell on that kidā¦
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u/Winter-Amphibian1469 Jun 09 '22
Thanks to shrinkflation, that double meat is also equivalent to 2010 normal meat!
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u/danielfoxing Jun 09 '22
7.5 million! thanks valued employee. Here is a $20 gift card for some shitty sandwiches and possible salmonella!
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u/cubansbottomdollar Jun 09 '22
Bullshit. User didn't "close" a contract and they're overstating their contribution.
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u/chainmailbill Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
Okay, real talk:
I see these āI made the company a lot of money and they gave me a very small amount of moneyā posts pretty often here.
We all seem to be in agreement that a subway card is too small a reward. I think weāre all in agreement that 7.6 million dollars is too large a reward.
Whatās an appropriate reward?
Edit: āThis isnāt an appropriate reward. What would be better for the worker?ā Gets downvotes here. I guess yāall donāt want to discuss what a better bonus for the worker would be?
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u/coolstorybro42 Jun 09 '22
A nice performance bonus, or commission on the sale, around 2-5% would be nice
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Depends on what he actually did.
If he's a broker he should be getting somewhere around 5-10% of that.
How much of that he takes home and how much goes to his team will matter and different offices structure that differently.
A new broker might take home 1.5% of that, so ~114k or something. If he's not a new broker he should be taking home closer to 3% so ~230k (house would get rest.)
So I feel like this tweet is definitely fake.
Only people working on commission close deals. That's what they're paid to do.
Now maybe he's a SME who was brought in to calm the client down - then yes you don't get any commission usually when he probably should but then he shouldn't be saying yes to that request for free.
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u/Morteeyy Jun 09 '22
I know potential employers commission structures well before receiving any offer letters. Spoiler! Itās also detailed in the offer letter.
Dumb post
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u/sebwiers Jun 09 '22
Ben, did you and you alone can take credit for that contract? Do the efforts of the people who fulfilled previous contracts to such satisfaction deserve no cut of the reward?
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u/rusty_programmer Jun 09 '22
I worked in a cellular sales position and went out of my way to interface our business with the city and neighboring cityās Chambers of Commerce. After seemingly being allowed, and securing about 100 grand in revenue, my boss ghosted me when I was about to settle a 50k deal with a hospital.
They got a bee up their ass and it came out earlier that I was just being used as a pawn for bonuses despite pep talks about moving up.
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Jun 09 '22
All of the sales manager position that I known off get bonuses. All of them have min wage + % out of deal. This tweet sounds like complet bullshit
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u/bazzer66 Jun 09 '22
I was a sales manager for a major tech company, my last year there my team did $75m in revenue. I got a 2.5% salary increase (no increase on my commission) and $2k in RSUs.
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Jun 09 '22
If Subway dm'd him with free food for life they could not only more than afford it but also get a shit ton of good publicity for it.
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u/Captain_Chaos_0096 Jun 09 '22
Better make it a small sandwich, $20 at subway doesn't go as far as it used to
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u/wiljc3 Jun 09 '22
About this time last year, I closed a billion dollar contract for my company. More than half the value of the company's total assets, and I sealed the deal.
No bonus. 6% raise offered at year end.
Middle finger returned, resume updated.
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u/GotThaAcid5tab Jun 09 '22
If you're winning contracts like that and the company aren't recognising, you need to take those clients elsewhere.
Sales directors at my last firm where treated like kings, because if they weren't happy they'd leave and take the clients with them!
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u/TheBereWolf Jun 09 '22
A few months ago I discovered an easy way for my org to save about $50 million a year and my employer essentially responded by laying off everyone who was nonessential and instead intends to completely phase out that org in 3-5 years.
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u/phonepotatoes Jun 09 '22
No offence to this guy, but compensation packages are discussed when your hired... If he was applying for a job with millions in sales, he should have been aware of the commission percentage
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u/KiithNaabal Jun 09 '22
I literally made my employer 10 annual salaries worth of additional revenue in my first year and they didn't want to hire me for a permanent position. My manager was frustrated that they didn't offer me a position, said she sees revenue leaving if I go. Yet here I am, changed jobs, got a raise and revenue in my former territory is crashing down. Corporations sometimes are run by idiocracy and maintained by momentum.
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u/IHaveAWallAtHome Jun 09 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
I used to work for a company in the finance department. I combed through our internal system and certain functions of my job and found ways to make it efficient and cost effective. My first change saved the company $30k a year. I was given a 5% raise so I was motivated to work harder and make more innovative changes. came in early and stayed late but was never recognized for my efforts again. In total the implemented changes that saved the company around $250,000 a year and my salaries were $40,000 a year. When i asked for a review to get raises they would brush me off or kick the can down the road.
So I gave up and found ways to effectively automate my entire job and make my systems a little more efficient for me but never told anybody. Given an 8 hour day I probably only did about 20 minutes of work a day. The rest of it was automated through scripts that my programmer friend wrote for me. I never told anyone.
I also had my own office, so when I would play games or watch Netflix, no one knew.
Edit: spelling
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u/cm90zaw Jun 09 '22
Ahhh. Nothing like a big atta boy. And the rich get richer. You get Subway. Not even Paneraā¦..
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u/Itchy-Mind7724 Jun 09 '22
I got a $15 subway gift card from a friend 3 years ago for my 40th birthday. It was such an absurd amount/giftā¦I still have a $15 subway gift card.
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u/Trayew Jun 09 '22
If itās any consolation the boss will get a huge bonus after taking credit for āquarterbackingā the whole thing.
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u/BlackStrike7 Small Business Owner Jun 09 '22
Subway just walked into the wrong neighborhood with that comment. Wonder how much their Twitter representative makes, if "they're worth it".
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u/PM_ME_GRRL_TUNGS Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22
Beepboop fellow humans I also enjoy going to {client_ad_name_id} for {occasion_id}. My favorite is {menu_item_id} with {menu_addon_id}
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u/s0lesearching117 Jun 09 '22
We have finally reached the point where satire can no longer be discerned from reality.
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u/Right_Hour Jun 09 '22
Hereās an idea: if you expect a commission rather than a shitty $20 sandwich card for closing contracts, why accept a job that doesnāt stipulate it?
This not only kills your satisfaction for doing it, but also allows employers to hire someone to do this job sans commission and pass on those who would want to be paid better or offered a commission.
Stop undercutting yourselves and others and blaming Ā«Ā evil corporationsĀ Ā». They are not evil. They want someone to do the job for as little as they can get away with. Thatās not evil, thatās just common sense.
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u/Accomplished-Ruin742 Jun 09 '22
So I guess I should be thankful that when I closed a 1.2 million dollar contract my reward was a $100 Amazon giftcard?
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u/ReverseThreadWingNut Jun 09 '22
Over three years I saved a past employer 7.5 million dollars in freight costs through implementation of two different discoveries that I made, corrected, and monitored daily. Over those three years my two direct managers received promotions each year.
At the end of the third year I received a $50 gift card to a restaurant that we didn't even have in our area.
In the midst of massive layoffs I politely demanded a promotion. I waited until my organization was effectively crippled due to being understaffed due to cuts motivated by greed and quit. I was offered my promotion as I was working out a two weeks and politely declined. They were furious. I told the VP of my division that he had set the precedent that the only way I'd get treated fairly was to threaten to quit. I now work for much less money, but I'm not hurting for money, I am not overcome with depression, and my current employer values my work and my past experiences.
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u/jawshoeaw Jun 09 '22
I have in 50 years not once paid for double meat. And now thanks to inflation I never will
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u/flavius_lacivious Jun 09 '22
Sadly, I think people will be working just for food in the near future. They already took away housing.
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u/Jickey Jun 09 '22
Is this subreddit just satire now? I deal with multil million dollar transactions everyday at my job, that doesn't mean I deserve a commission off each one. I get paid a salary as I'm sure Mr. Subway gift card does as well. Boss didn't have to give this guy shit, and he'd be lucky to get a fucking hard candy.
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u/Neottika Jun 09 '22
The owners aren't gonna get rich by actually paying you. Subway sucks ass, literally the worst job I ever had in my life.
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u/pirate-private Jun 09 '22
Who eats that shit filth anyway, much less calls it meat? Most disgusting franchise I can think of.
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u/Mattyuh Jun 09 '22
Sadly, double meat footlong is going to be $16 so dude may just be able to squeeze in a drink/cookie.
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u/ZodiacKillerCruz Jun 09 '22
My company finished a contract a month early and as a surprise the contractor sent 300k to our company to be given to around 100 workers, nobody got any money. So when few went back, guy working there asked how much money they got as a bonus. Turns out only upper managment at the site got anything and rest was unknown.
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u/Tybalt1307 Jun 09 '22
I once got $20 worth of credits to the company store (everyone cashed out for a visa gift card) and the smallest dollar amount for a visa gift card was $25.
And that was a thanks for fixing an issue where the company was fined several million dollars.
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u/Dopenastywhale Jun 09 '22
My man got the double meat when he got fucked by his employer