This is something crappy I've never understood.
So Joe gets hired in 2015 when starting rate is $15/Hour. He works hard. He's never late, never misses work except for once a year if he gets sick, and always gets his job done and does great quality work. He helps his team but doesn't care for leadership roles and stays a team member. He's a true Rockstar. Eventually he gets raises for his hard work, and over the years works his way up to $20/hour.
Zoomer gets hired in 2020, along with 2 dozen other new recruits. The starting rate is $19.50 an hour for the first 90 days, with a 50 cent raise after he gets full time. He works hard, but not too hard, and doesn't plan on staying with the company longer than a year or so. Sometimes he is late, but not very often. He misses work for vacations, seems to get sick 5-10 times a year, and he makes quality errors an average amount of time, but he makes his 90 day probation and gets his .50c raise to $20/Hour.
In what world is it justified to treat your loyal employees this way? Why do companies do this? I've never been on Joe's end of the equation, but I always feel bad when I get a new job and vets are like, wow you're making how much? It took me 3 years to get that rate of pay and I'm barely making more than you!
Wouldn't it make more sense to have some kind of a "sliding scale" so this doesn't happen? I'd like to think if I was in big business I would treat my mid-long term employees better than this.
Does anyone have an explanation besides "the job market became more competitive and the cost of living went up"
So Joe gets hired in 2015 when starting rate is $15/Hour. He works hard. He's never late, never misses work except for once a year if he gets sick, and always gets his job done and does great quality work. He helps his team but doesn't care for leadership roles and stays a team member. He's a true Rockstar. Eventually he gets raises for his hard work, and over the years works his way up to $20/hour.
Zoomer gets hired in 2020, along with 2 dozen other new recruits. The starting rate is $19.50 an hour for the first 90 days, with a 50 cent raise after he gets full time. He works hard, but not too hard, and doesn't plan on staying with the company longer than a year or so. Sometimes he is late, but not very often. He misses work for vacations, seems to get sick 5-10 times a year, and he makes quality errors an average amount of time, but he makes his 90 day probation and gets his .50c raise to $20/Hour.
In what world is it justified to treat your loyal employees this way? Why do companies do this? I've never been on Joe's end of the equation, but I always feel bad when I get a new job and vets are like, wow you're making how much? It took me 3 years to get that rate of pay and I'm barely making more than you!
Wouldn't it make more sense to have some kind of a "sliding scale" so this doesn't happen? I'd like to think if I was in big business I would treat my mid-long term employees better than this.
Does anyone have an explanation besides "the job market became more competitive and the cost of living went up"
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