11mo ago

Employers

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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.
- That's 100% intentional.
  Hire less workers to cut costs, and squeeze as much profit as possible from what few workers there are.
  Less free time and higher employee turnover also means it's harder to unionize, which is definitely a plus for CEOs.
  
  I've never thought of it like that
  And that makes way more sense then I'd like it to
- Exactly the same as the store i worked at. No money to have more people scheduled in, plenty of money to ask for OT and call extra people in daily.
  Before I quit there had not been a single day in half a year where the evening shift had enough people scheduled to do the amount of work we knew was going to be there. Not a single day the managers didn't have to beg for more people to come in. So when my options came down to become a manager or leave when my contract expired, I bolted.
  
  And in the care taking sector. Three people needed per wing for a proper job. Two are scheduled, one of those calls in sick and for some strange reason nobody is picking up their phone. Well folks, looks like today has sub standard levels of hygiene on the menu.
  
  Factories run similarly in my experience
  It’s dumb as fuck but we have to reduce manpower further
- 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.
  
  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.
- I used to work at Taco Bell and the manager that hired me got fired for scheduling one "extra" person a shift. Every other metric was great, of course.
  
  It's astounding that modern management is all just metrics. Here are your target numbers, we don't know how you will hit them and it's easier for us if we don't know; if you can't hit your targets we will fire you for underperforming and will do the same until we hire our divine sociopath that will achieve our metrics by any means necessary.

This time I don't mind being Rick rolled.
- The game
  
  Man, got rick rolled and lost the game...
  
  I JUST LOST THE GAME
  
  Be assured, I will remember this pimento64.
- Should have made the hog laying down in the last panel for loss
  
  Wouldn't it be the cat?

- Damn, it's pretty crazy how far we've come considering how nobody has wanted to work anymore for over a century
  
  It's sort of true, but not in the way they mean it. Most people don't want to work or they would never retire. But we're also mostly willing to work. Even work really difficult and/or dangerous jobs.
- Meanwhile I love doing volunteer work with no problems whatsoever (free work most of the time) and at the same time I have problems keeping my mental health stable for a longer period of time when working for a wage...

Love the coffee cup, so true
- Motherf
- Came to the comments specifically to see if anyone else noticed it. Glad to see it wasn’t just me.
- Was I just Rickrolled?

Do employers actually care about being understaffed or do they only wish that that staff would stop complaining that the company is understaffed?
After all, an understaffed company is a lean, efficient company that doesn't give out money all willy-nilly to the sort of people who have to do undesirable work and thus ensures good value for the C-level end-of-year bonus and stockholder portfolios, which ought to sound like a win from their point of view.

You're lucky if someone sees your CV/resume at all.

I feel like you'll just let me down and desert me.

What's a cv?
- Curriculum vitae
- I think it's a type of honda
  
  No, that's a Civic, you're thinking of the integer between six and eight.
- Depending on what country you're in, it's either a resumé, or a supplement to a resumé that summarizes academic achievements for an applicant with a graduate degree.
- Curriculum vitae. It’s basically a long résumé. The résumé gets your foot in the door with the “best of” highlights that are tailored to the specific job. The the CV is what you bring to the interview; It’s longer and has a more complete work history, instead of just the bits that are relevant to the job you applied for.
  So when they ask you “can you explain this gap in your employment for these two years” you can go “yeah, if you look at my CV, you’ll see that I was working/freelance in a tangental industry. But it wasn’t very pertinent to this application, so I left it off of my résumé when I applied.”
  And for tailoring your résumé to each job, you just copy/paste the relevant info from your CV to make a one page document.
  
  I don't think this is correct. Assuming you're American then a CV is the same as what you'd call a résumé. Unless a résumé is more like a cover letter (as in the intro paragraph where you summarise what you do and why you want the job)?
- 105
- A 2CV was an awesome Citroên car.
- It's what Brits (and maybe others) often call a resume. It's also sometimes slightly longer. than a resume (2+ pages instead of 1).
- Lebenslauf