VP on an all company call told us all that “if you want to work only 40 hours a week don’t let the door hit you when you leave”.
Let me preface this to let you know that of the 500 people in the company about 100 are sales people who get commissions. Another 25 get performance based bonuses. 70 are salaried with OT. The remaining 300+ are exempt salaried with no bonus and no commission.
So the Partner (VP) that runs this division had an all team call. On the call was the typical you rah rah sales stuff to get people fired up.
But then he tells us that if only want to work 40 hours a week that you should leave the company because we are planning on GROWING FAST!
In the 2.5 years I was there, not one single person on my team got a raise. So I started asking around. The teammates in my location had NEVER gotten a raise. One person has been there 6.5 years. Not a single raise for ANYONE on the team since they started.
I cannot believe the gall of someone to tell the whole company who hasn’t gotten a raise, doesn’t get any profit sharing, gets no bonuses or commissions that they should want to work 50+ plus hours a week when they get LITERALLY NOTHING IN RETURN FOR THAT.
Literally the only people who will get rich are the 12 partners in the company and perhaps some of the sales team.
How are people this disconnected from reality?
Netizens’ comments
- Time to go OP. You should only be required to work your 40 and then you should be free. This guy is an a-hole who thinks he owns you – get away. good luck finding something better.
- This is an excellent way to get me to work 30 hours a week.
- I really hope, when some snotty owner says something like this, that the vast majority of the staff just walk out. It would just be karma.
- Best way to keep a door hitting you on the way out is to kick it down and do some damage on your way out.