Update on the job offer front
Last week my supervisor pulled me into her office to talk a bit more about the job offer and it turns out that they're only gonna be paying me $10/hour. Huh. I was definitely expecting closer to $15. This changes things radically because I didn't even feel like working there in the first place and the only reason I'd stay was the money. Sigh. Now two of my coworkers are leaving and I'm getting a better picture of what the small problems would be in taking this job.
One: there's nothing in writing. Getting paid for personal and vacation days and comp time is completely up to the people in charge. What you don't use by your year anniversary is lost and won't be paid out if they don't feel like paying it. At the university there is a definite procedure for everything and there's no question about what you will or won't be compensated for.
Two: Things are really messed up on many levels of the company. From the apartment complex managers to the company executives there is this trend of spending lots and lots of money without there being enough in the budget to justify it. There's no real accountability for this and a lot of time spent at work is wasted just trying to fix the numbers to add up right for our auditors. I've seen a great deal of book fixing in order for numbers to add up right and have been thoroughly pissed about it for a while. On last month's AmEx bill there was a "working dinner" that came to over $1000 that a bunch of execs took part in. There were over a dozen individual drinks consumed along with three bottles of wine. This kind of stuff is common.
Three: Everyone hates each other. I'm not kidding. There's an rivalry going on between two of my coworkers the likes of which you'd expect on a sitcom. There's backstabbing you'd expect from a group of teenage girls. The whole atmosphere is clique-ish and it's really pathetic. I overheard someone say to a new guy that he should be nice to "Jane Doe" because she parties with the higher ups. Sad.
Are other workplace environments like this and I've been sheltered from it all this time? My supervisor seriously wants me to accept the job offer but now I'm wondering if it's because so many other people are jumping ship and she wants someone to take up all their slack.
One: there's nothing in writing. Getting paid for personal and vacation days and comp time is completely up to the people in charge. What you don't use by your year anniversary is lost and won't be paid out if they don't feel like paying it. At the university there is a definite procedure for everything and there's no question about what you will or won't be compensated for.
Two: Things are really messed up on many levels of the company. From the apartment complex managers to the company executives there is this trend of spending lots and lots of money without there being enough in the budget to justify it. There's no real accountability for this and a lot of time spent at work is wasted just trying to fix the numbers to add up right for our auditors. I've seen a great deal of book fixing in order for numbers to add up right and have been thoroughly pissed about it for a while. On last month's AmEx bill there was a "working dinner" that came to over $1000 that a bunch of execs took part in. There were over a dozen individual drinks consumed along with three bottles of wine. This kind of stuff is common.
Three: Everyone hates each other. I'm not kidding. There's an rivalry going on between two of my coworkers the likes of which you'd expect on a sitcom. There's backstabbing you'd expect from a group of teenage girls. The whole atmosphere is clique-ish and it's really pathetic. I overheard someone say to a new guy that he should be nice to "Jane Doe" because she parties with the higher ups. Sad.
Are other workplace environments like this and I've been sheltered from it all this time? My supervisor seriously wants me to accept the job offer but now I'm wondering if it's because so many other people are jumping ship and she wants someone to take up all their slack.