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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (11 children)

My SO works fast food. Corporate never allocates enough hours so they're perpetually understaffed, but the store manager has permission to call people in if needed. So there's a lot of "your scheduled 10-4, but at 3:30 I'm gonna ask if you'll stay to 6, or I'll call you 2 hours before your shift to see if you can come in early".

Its a lose lose, nobody gets the hours they want, manager can't retain workers, people hate being called in or asked to stay late, and the schedule is always shorthanded and mostly a suggestion. Of course nobody wants to work in that shitty mess of cost cutting and begging employees to pick up the slack that the MBAs at corporate have caused.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm a software developer and my company flat out refuses to hire graduates (if they didn't work as students here) or offer apprenticeships, even though apprenticeships are a great way to basically produce your own developers.

At the same time, there's a constant staff shortage basically everywhere and we even have to refuse projects because we can't staff them.

[–] Crisps 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your company isn’t planning on increasing their salary by 50% over the first couple of years then it is a waste of time. You take the hit of all the training and unproductive first year, then they go somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paying a salary that you would have to pay anyway shouldn't be controversial.

Also, not every country has this job hopping attitude. My previous employer had tons of "early hires" that were trained by the company and didn't quit the moment they were deemed "valuable" in the market.

[–] Crisps 1 points 1 year ago

I agree completely, unfortunately the company itself rarely does.

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