‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined

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    Industries promote this, especially the publicly traded ones, whether they realize it or not (I’m sure they do). It looks worse on a corporate balance sheet and subsequent earnings quarterly earnings report to pay someone 20% more than to hire someone at a new pay scale. It’s absolutely insane that we’ve gotten ourselves to this point as a society, but here we are.

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      I think it’s also very acceptable to have full time contractors on the payroll with no end date for the same reason.

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          Contractors can be paid out of project budgets, they don’t need benefits and other perks aside from cash and they can be hired and terminated quickly with no severance

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            And afterwards they discover the payroll is much lower while overall costs are much higher compared to the fixed employee era, and the same people they fired are back but now on s freelance base.

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              When the company’s CEO cares more about cutting employees’ bonuses than saving money and reporting more cost-saving measures to the board.

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            And that goes back to the engineer’s original ask to show him what companies have employee loyalty.

            Replacing full time employees who at least have a slight stake in the company with easily replaceable contractors there to complete a project doesn’t put the best foot forward in the loyalty regard.

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              I make no judgements on the intelligence of these decisions, I was answering why companies do it.

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                Right on. I did ask why after all and even tho I wanted to know something specific from the post above mine I was generic with my question.

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              My work let all the contractors know that they can comvert or their contracts will not be renewed again. I know at least one guy that would be taking a 40k pay cut.

              I was just hired on along with another guy. We found out that one of our team members who has been with the company for 10 years is making less than the new hires.

              Another oddity of the situation: I worked with her in the same department 10 years ago as new hires. I left the company to double my salary and 10 years later came back and was hired at the same salary I had left for (took a pay cut for a better life).

              I get so pissed off on her behalf. 8 years of mysoginistic managers screwing her over for raises, and now that she finally has a good manager, his hands are tied to give her a decebt, an deserved, raise or even salary parity with new-hires.

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              original ask

              When you leave the car lot, you need to use regular words like ‘request’ or ‘question’.

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            My old job did this with me. Let me go for “personnel reasons” (playing well with others, specifically an older cranky guy), and hired me back as a contractor now making about 6x what I made while there. Old guy left, and a management spot opened up about the same time, they lowballed the shit out of their offer, to which I laughed and said I’m happy where I’m at.

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      I don’t understand how it works out for them though. Hiring is so much more expensive than retaining staff, not just the higher salary, but the loss of productivity from losing someone with institutional knowledge and needing to train the new person which can take a really long time to get them up to speed.

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        don’t understand how it works out for them though. Hiring is so much more expensive than retaining

        You’re using logic, and that may trip you up here.

        Hiring is spread out into different cost buckets, whereas a 20% hit to one resource’s payroll stays in payroll.

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        Many of the most wealthy and powerful companies in our world have never made a profit. Many times, companies succeed by currying the favor of the rich and powerful more so than anything else.

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      Yup. I obviously don’t hate the people doing this, quite the opposite if anything, but it’s so silly that it’s a thing in the first place.