Typical corporate shortfalls
Severely under-paying workers, management being vague but friendly during the interview to find out a month down the line that the department flies into emergency panic mode during every holiday
Neglecting to warn interviewees that team members don’t cover your work during an absence- in effect forcing you to work further ahead than what’s practical and developing resentment when supervisors ask you to pick up extra work as “part of the team”
Not being paid for on-call work, nor being reimbursed for being chained to internet access from Friday night - Monday morning
Having disciplinary forms slid across my desk for not answering my supervisor the first time she called at 11:47pm on a Friday night, 4 hours after I’d clocked out, returning her call ten minutes later with no answer, coming into work and being wrangled into a 4-supervisor meeting with HR to discuss how unacceptable it was that my boss had to take care of a problem she caused herself, instead of expecting her unpaid on-call editor to handle it remotely without disturbing her time off.
Being directly mislead about performance scores equaling pay raises, being bullied into dropping the conversation at the end of each performance review despite consistent high scores.
