Personal story so if you don't care I'm telling you at the top here now.
So I work at a big tech job. Test technician engineer for microchip wafers. Way underpaid with how cost of living has accelerated and what we do.
We had our ramp up just like all jobs did last year which was totally artificial if you've been a person alive your whole life. It was pretty fucking obvious what was going on politically and economically. Yet, our place hired everyone and anyone, no degrees no skills.
It's been a shit show since. We made 60 billion profit and they're saying we're out of money. How the fuck. HOW THE FUCK. Do you run out of money at 60 billion profit??
These greedy assholes are now reaping what they sow. So now they laid off way too much earlier this year after that 60 billion profit. About 75% of the people I worked with.
Now, they're scrambling and are telling us to work more and people keep going home and calling in sick and they're freaking out. They're moving people from other departments to come work over with us but it has been chaos because they don't know the tools and have been causing massive damage and rework. They used to require training but management is saying no training just do it. It's all so hilarious. I'm just standing back. They've been asking for my help and I'm like nah I'm good, you guys didn't want to give me a raise. I don't need to go above and beyond.
My last job was as a calibration tech at a company that made a unique instrument that was required to be re-calibrated once a year, twice a year if it was used by a pharma company. After a few years, 'someone' in management congratulated me and said of the 15 techs I did twice and many units a month as the next 'best best' tech. Asked my manager for a raise, sorry your a tech, this is what techs get paid. I watched the other techs and paced myself to just do slightly more. Boss told me he was disappointed in my performance lately. I pointed out I was still doing more that any other tech getting paid the same.
gimpyoldman 27 points 5 months ago
My last job was as a calibration tech at a company that made a unique instrument that was required to be re-calibrated once a year, twice a year if it was used by a pharma company. After a few years, 'someone' in management congratulated me and said of the 15 techs I did twice and many units a month as the next 'best best' tech. Asked my manager for a raise, sorry your a tech, this is what techs get paid. I watched the other techs and paced myself to just do slightly more. Boss told me he was disappointed in my performance lately. I pointed out I was still doing more that any other tech getting paid the same.