Employee Complains: "Company bases promotions on merit instead of experience"

Fire that bum

Must have been an old union worker.

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Have some here like that. Union people who think their seniority allows them to do as little work as possible

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Unions were critical in getting workers rights in this country. They fricked up when they protected incompetent, lazy workers. And considering workers rights are being diminished, we need them more now than in a long time. It's a damn shame.

Millennials, amirite?

I work with a guy who thinks like that. He was furious when I was promoted over him and didn't speak to me for about a month.

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please explain how worker rights are being diminished.

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Well, for one, raises being based on merit instead of seniority.

Just wow. I got nothing else to say.

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He was furious when I was promoted over him and didn't speak to me for about a month.

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Good, leave him in the dust if he can't figure it out. In 10 years you will be in such a far better place than him you won't recognize each other.

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You are correct. I had one tell me they expect 3%-5% increase every year. I asked, "based on what?". They said, "inflation". I said, "no, merit".

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So, what you're telling me, Ray, is that when you raise your prices to your customers to compensate for inflation, you then turn around and frick your employees by not giving them a commensurate cut? Their buying power drops, Ray, just like yours does when inflation occurs. To ask them to overperform just to keep their same standard of living is pretty shitty, Ray. Or, are you able to avoid raising your prices to stay below your competition by, again, fricking your employees and letting them bear your business's inflation burden? Either way, Ray, when you frick your employees long enough, you end up with your good employees going to employers that take care of them. Then, you're stuck with the shitty employees, Ray. Cost of living increases need to be kept separate from merit based raises. Losing good people to bad practices is how businesses get eaten alive.

Don't get eaten alive, Ray.