Hideous treatment of Employees by Large Corporations

 

There has been a great deal of information posted about how Google and Apple conspired to not ever employ one another employees so they could keep salaries low.

Granted low is kind of a relative thing since the employees they were talking about were making quite a bit to start out with.

I strongly doubt that Google and Apple are the only companies that have done that.

The only thing that is important to many corporations nowadays is how much money they can make as fast as possible. They do not in way care about their employees. They actually make changes on the fly to what they want their employees to be doing so that a lot of them can be let go for not meeting the goals that change all the time. That then allows the companies to hire new people at starting salaries that in a lot of cases keep getting lower even though the profits are growing at rates that are obscene.

Many companies have no interest whatsoever in taking care of their employees. I am currently on Workers Compensation because I injured my back at a customers house. I was told that there was no guarantee that my job would be there for me when I was done on Workers Compensation unless there was an FMLA leave running concurrently with the Workers Comp. So there was an application for FMLA sent in and it was almost instantly denied so I am pretty much screwed.

There are ton of companies out there that conspire with each other to screw over employees. For instance where I work if you apply for a job at another company for the same position the pay scale is just as bad as it is now.

I work for the largest company making more money than any other company in this industry. I am currently 2 levels above entry level and the industry average is around 85% more than what I am paid.

I have been working with HR and requesting all kinds of information and all I get it’s the phrase “that is the policy”. No one has been willing to send me a hard copy of the policy which tells me the phrase “that is the policy” is just bullshit and they are using that phrase so they can just sit on their butts and not do anything.

I know a gentleman that worked for the company for around 15 years or so and started having back issues from a congenital problem that was not repairable. He got ready to apply for disability and was let go before he applied so it was instantly denied. He is in the process of suing the company.

We really need to get rid of every single politician that is up for re-election and get new people in here. If that does not happen then we need to start looking at the possibility of Socialism since none of our politicians give a shit about anyone in the country other than the 1% that throw money at them so they have the chance to stay in office.

Any of you out there that hate Socialism better start showing everyone that you give a shit.

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My Thoughts on Getting Older!

 

Getting older is a great thing and it certainly beats the alternative but there are some disadvantages.

I have been injured several times at the job I have while none of them have been life threatening the fact that I am older make the healing process take longer.

I am currently working through a back issue with a herniated disk and a bulging disk that are pinching some nerves.

I am a little perturbed at the way companies now handle things like this. I remember working years ago where someone got injured several times and at that point the company would come up to them and say would you like to move to another job so you can no longer get injured?

That no longer happens today. At least at large corporations where they make the assumption that every single employee that is injured is attempting to defraud the company. For instance I have an approved medical accommodation from corporate headquarters which is going nowhere. Even with the amount of local autonomy that is given I am continuously told that there must be a job opening available and that I can not move to another job until I am released for full duty at my current job.

Considering that I have a herniated disk which may make some of the requirements of my current job a bit difficult I just might be screwed. Maybe even more than a friend of mine who has had back issues which have been getting worse for several years who was just recently let go and denied disability.

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My Thoughts on the Weather

 

I truly hope that the upcoming winter will have temperatures as mild as what we have had this summer. We have had a few hot days but nothing extremely bad. Hopefully we will not see the hideous cold caused by the Polar Vortexes from last year.

I have no problem with some snow but I certainly hope any snow we get is at least something not extreme. I have no problem driving in snow but there are entirely too many people out there that believe that there vehicles traction is the same as warm and dry weather regardless of what is on the roads.

Hopefully there will also be a bit more thought going into what conditions outside workers are required to work in. Last year during the worst snow it was decided that we were not going to be working because it was dangerous just to get to the locations let alone do the outside work. About 5 of us were already at the shop and a bunch of others were on the road headed that way before the decision was made. I am very glad that decision was made but would it not have been better to make it early enough that no one was on the road? There was already like 11 inches of snow on the ground before I left home and the snow was to continue for several hours.

 

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