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submitted 10 months ago by RotaryKeyboard to c/workreform@lemmy.world

Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.

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[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like I get how you feel in your current job, because I've felt that way a few times before. But at all but one of those jobs, the environment slowly changed as the companies started to focus more on the bottom line than their employees. In my current job, I felt amazing, it honestly felt like the company cared about us and it showed, all the people I spoke to loved it there.. Until we laid off 2k people last month.. Now I just feel betrayed and angry.

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's with any position. Things change. More argument about loyalty being a transitory thing. My second job was like that. Was really good and then the company we third partied for was sued by a US State for fraud. When the contract wasn't renewed I thought we'd move on, but I was surprised by how many of our eggs had been placed in a single basket. The vast majority of the company I worked for relied on those contracts to supply jobs, so when that went away the company went from thirty software developers to one. 90% of the company I worked for's value evaporated within two months.

It was this that I also became aware of what the WARN Act was.

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