This is going to be super long and a bit of venting because I’m just so flustered and beyond belief with how the business I work for is ran.
I worked at this job previously for 3 years and I was damn good at it. It’s a production setting and I worked on the production floor. It’s highly stressful, hot as hell, and extremely physical. I enjoyed it in my later 20s because it kept me in shape and I got satisfaction from producing things and seeing the fruits of my labor. It’s also a skill set that is rather different and doesn’t really cross into any other industries. The first two years of the job was really almost like an apprenticeship and I learned all the tricks of the trade and they showed me an appreciation with many raises and bonuses sporadically. There were always some problems with the husband owner, but I always attributed it to the job itself being stressful, but also because it’s a small married couple ran business that was starting to boom and we were in a small shop busting at the seams. Because of the skill set it was always also hard to find other employees that could hack it and they had very high standards for their product. Also, we had got rather friendly with each other I always gave them the benefit of the doubt, especially when it came to husband owners behavior on the floor. Before I had got this job I worked in the restaurant industry, so streams of cursing or general ranting never really bothered me, you see and hear worse in a kitchen usually. But it began to escalate, he’d throw hammers across the shop, punch things, etc I would go to owner wife and tell her this wasn’t acceptable, and he’d bottle it up and it wouldn’t happen again until a few months.
Towards the end of the three years i ended up with a knee injury because of being overworked (7am to 7pm of just intense physical labor) and told owner wife I was having some serious problems. We were still short staffed and they were overloading production. I made the decision to leave because my knee just wasn’t improving, I tried for weeks to “get over the pain” and finally walked in on a Monday with my letter of resignation and told her I couldn’t even give her an notice because I just physically couldn’t do it. She understood and we remained loosely in contact after I left. They eventually got to buy a new shop and expand. I even landed her huge accounts after I had moved on to other jobs.
So this past spring, she makes me a terrific offer to come back, especially for my area, $18 an hour, 2 weeks PTO, and Quarterly Bonuses. I was only making $15 at the marketing/e-commerce job I landed and Covid and shutdowns were looming, the marketing part of the job dealt a lot with bars and clubs so I was extremely nervous I’d get laid off. I arranged a meeting with husband and wife owner to discuss the offer. I explicitly told them I would only accept the offer if they understood I wouldn’t be quite as fast as I used to be, that I could not push my Knee past a certain point, that if I have to take a break or rest my knee that it would not be a problem. They looked me dead in the eyes and said it’d be a nonissue, that I wound still be faster and obviously more experienced than the newbies they had, that they would work with me and that things were drastically different since I left.
Drastically different is right but it was not in a positive way. I come back during quarantine, so orders are slow and it’s a good way to ease myself back in. But next thing you know, they lay off all the extra help, leaving only me and owner husband doing the actual production. Ok, it’s Covid, she’ll probably bring those people back...she did not. Summer begins and production kicks up full swing and she provides us with 2 teenagers and tells me not even really train them just let them do the dirty work. It was a rough summer, I was still getting used to being back after being gone for 2 years. I was going the fastest my knee would allow, and then the comments from owner husband start about my speed. I immediately go to owner wife and reminded her rather bluntly about our agreement and what I was capable of, she then throws “how much they’re paying me” in my face and essentially just ignores the stipulations I provided.
My closest friend/cousin got diagnosed with cancer shortly after and I was a wreck. I told owner wife the situation (she knows my cousin and how close we are) and had to take some days off to help my cousin and her son out. I asked if I could use some of my PTO for these days, she informs me I won’t be getting it until after a year! Not what we agreed to at all! The week of her major surgery to try to remove the cancer I made 2 mistakes at work, they were not even substantial or huge mistakes. 1 was actually husband owners fault because he’s become such a micromanager that he’ll take over what you’re doing but not even inform you why or what he did. Owner wife takes me aside that day and tells me “I’ve always crumbled under pressure” and basically lectured me and accused me of not being able to handle the job at all. At this point no where is hiring and I can’t just not have a job, so instead of telling her to go F herself I just explain again that I’m sorry I’m distracted about my cousin but I can handle the job, I was just having a bad week. Nevermid the fact if owner husband makes a mistakes he literally shuts down production to throw a hissy fit, some days he stops when there’s still hours left of the shift and then leaves me to catch up his work.
By this time now 2 quarters have passed, the first quarter was during the shutdown stuff so I wasn’t expecting a bonus for that one, but second quarter I was there was booming, along with multiple huge orders from one of the accounts I had brought them. I have never received any of the quarterly bonuses we agreed to, she’s not even mentioned it. This leaves me To believe it was all bull or she’s justified not giving them to me because my work hasn’t met their now impossible standards.
I had got so depressed and felt so bamboozled that I just didn’t care any longer, even on days I’ve killed it owner husband has become a ranting tantrum throwing lunatic talking to himself saying things about his own business like “this is all bullshit, I ducking hate it here, I don’t want to do this anymore” and it kills morale. We finally got an new assistant after the teens left and she’s already miserable and seeking advice from me regarding his awful toxic energy and attitude. Owner husband HIT HER WITH A MACHINE, (accident but due to them not having the safety feature any longer because they’re too cheap to fix it, like hello OSHA) started yelling at her instead of asking if she needed medical attention, and when she needed a moment to compose herself, owner wife comes up to her and in an accusatory way asked “do you even like your job here?” That’s when I knew I had to leave again. I cannot believe they handled the situation that way.
So what felt like the universe responding, my previous marketing job asks me to come back and tells me they’ll match what I’m making now plus the benefits the always offered and an extra week of PTO within the year I’m back. I accepted in a heartbeat to start fully after the new year and am helping them a bit on the evenings until then. I have barely 20 days left here because they close the shop from Xmas to New Years. I’m not counting on them paying me for it since I’ll be leaving. I haven’t even told them yet because I’m just trying to milk more money from working both positions and want to get the Xmas bonus owner wife gives out since they haven’t given me any of the others I feel I’m owed.
So I guess after this novel and you know just quite how awful these people are, should I go out in a glorious fashion and rip her a new one on the last day and tell her exactly why I’m leaving and how awful her and her husband are, or be nice and still inform her I won’t return after the new year, or just send a text after Xmas, or even just ghost them?
TL;DR I’m working a job I had previously years ago, but they basically bait and switched me to get me back, will be returning to a former position elsewhere after the new year, should I give them a piece of my mind when I quit considering how toxic and awful They have treated me?
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