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Favoritism at work...
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
This new co-worker of mine just got hooked the up. He received medical benefits and a $1.05 raise (automatically, due to being promoted when you earn medical) without waiting for his probation to pass or 4 consecutive weeks of 20 hours of work.
There's no reason for this guy to deserve this special treatment. His work ethics suck and he really doesn't know about the job. The only thing I can think of is because...
A) he recently hurt his ankle, but this was completely non-work related and off company property.
B) he's family or someone within family is close with managment.
C) he's ing management.
It's not resentment towards him, he's a cool guy, but more of a question of reasoning towards upper management.
The thing is I'm treated really well in this company. I make more than majority of my co-workers, and get a lot of "space" behavior wise. I have a few close friends in this company however, who have provided a lot more time and effort to the company than he has, with no rewards like his. He's already making more than some of them.
My friends are all too chicken to say something, and they think I'm the best canidate to say something since I'm in the "inner circle" with management.
Should I open my mouth to upper management, risk being taken out of the "inner circle" and put on the list...or tell my friends to suck it up?
c0r version:
New Co-worker got raise. Unfair. Friends want me to speak up. Risk job or tell them to stfu? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Wow. That is a really special story. |
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| ToxicGreenWaste |
| I've never heard of such a thing. |
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
Yeah yeah, this type of thing happens all the time, I know. Really don't like seeing my friends get ed over like that though.
And they won't get off my balls about it. |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
he's a cool guy |
your friends are not. life.
/thread |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I've become desensitized to it and have stopped caring. I see so much messed up at work all of the time and it used to really bug me, but now I just shrug it off and go about my way. |
As seen here. In all honesty, just go up to them and say, "Hi, guys! Welcome to life! :gsmile:" |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
I'm hesitant to administer actual advice, as it could very well mean that I am arming potential workplace competition with tidbits which may very well make them more competitive towards me, but eh... it's not like I had anything profound to say.
Stop acting like a goddamned baby, as your coworkers seem to be. Stop thinking you're going to help save them all from this mass injustice that has so seemingly been exacted upon you all - you won't become a martyr, you'll either be shut up summarily or canned immediately. Suck it up and do better. Eventually someone will notice you are a cut above... or maybe they won't. Find a different job if it goes too long with nobody noticing you doing better. If you're not doing better than anyone else in the first place, then you don't really deserve a promotion at all, now do you? You think Management is spurred to reward the people who fit in exceedingly well or are really good at meeting expectations - especially when they really don't have to? Hah. Pay little heed to those who are promoted around you for reasons seemingly unknown to yourself... you are in the dark for a reason, so stay that way or sally forth with the skills to either be a valuable enough commodity around your workplace to be an actual asset when it comes to replacement or the savvy to find a different job. Dig? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I'm hesitant to administer actual advice, as it could very well mean that I am arming potential workplace competition with tidbits which may very well make them more competitive towards me, but eh... it's not like I had anything profound to say.
Stop acting like a goddamned baby, as your coworkers seem to be. Stop thinking you're going to help save them all from this mass injustice that has so seemingly been exacted upon you all - you won't become a martyr, you'll either be shut up summarily or canned immediately. Suck it up and do better. Eventually someone will notice you are a cut above... or maybe they won't. Find a different job if it goes too long with nobody noticing you doing better. If you're not doing better than anyone else in the first place, then you don't really deserve a promotion at all, now do you? You think Management is spurred to reward the people who fit in exceedingly well or are really good at meeting expectations - especially when they really don't have to? Hah. Pay little heed to those who are promoted around you for reasons seemingly unknown to yourself... you are in the dark for a reason, so stay that way or sally forth with the skills to either be a valuable enough commodity around your workplace to be an actual asset when it comes to replacement or the savvy to find a different job. Dig? |
Can I get an amen!? |
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
I don't want to come off as someone hoping to start a revolution, but I really think if enough people are informed of the situation than some action among them will be taken, maybe a strike? I get the assumption that a lot of people are not getting a reasonable pay. Why they stay committed to the company, who knows. Maybe they just don't know any better. That's why I want someone to speak up for them.
I don't think this company is big enough to just terminate anyone who attempts to speak their opinion...at least I hope not. |
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I'm hesitant to administer actual advice, as it could very well mean that I am arming potential workplace competition with tidbits which may very well make them more competitive towards me, but eh... it's not like I had anything profound to say.
Stop acting like a goddamned baby, as your coworkers seem to be. Stop thinking you're going to help save them all from this mass injustice that has so seemingly been exacted upon you all - you won't become a martyr, you'll either be shut up summarily or canned immediately. Suck it up and do better. Eventually someone will notice you are a cut above... or maybe they won't. Find a different job if it goes too long with nobody noticing you doing better. If you're not doing better than anyone else in the first place, then you don't really deserve a promotion at all, now do you? You think Management is spurred to reward the people who fit in exceedingly well or are really good at meeting expectations - especially when they really don't have to? Hah. Pay little heed to those who are promoted around you for reasons seemingly unknown to yourself... you are in the dark for a reason, so stay that way or sally forth with the skills to either be a valuable enough commodity around your workplace to be an actual asset when it comes to replacement or the savvy to find a different job. Dig? |
And yes, this is really good advice, but I would only take this into consideraton if I was employed in a big corporation. My job is fairly small and somewhat local. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
You seem really uncertain about a lot of things.
I'd caution you to keep your eye on other job opportunities that may present themselves to you while you do... whatever it is you're going to do, but I guess when it comes down to it, I can't be arsed to care whether you succeed or not. And neither should your management, if you are intent on speaking of subversive activities without the intention of drawing one of those ever-so-pesky stigmas unto your name. It sounds to me that you're paid far too much if you're making more than everyone else because you don't seem to be terribly bright when it comes to making positive change within a corporate environment, if such a thing is actually possible.
//If you don't actually think that corporate mentality and the value of workers is a near universal concept at this point, then I don't know that anything I or anyone else here can say would do you much good. Do what you're going to do. We'll see what happens when you try to selectively go around your bosses to achieve - what is it? More pay, more benefits, less work? What, exactly, are you trying to do? |
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| tubularbills |
| kinda sucks, but there you have it. i wouldn't raise a big stink about it, especially at the work place |
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