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I've said basically to my boss at the shitty megacorp like "if I go out of my way to fix things and do more work, I get the same outcome as not doing any of that. You don't give me paid holidays. You pay entry level wages. We both know I'm going to be laid off in December. So why would I?"
Capitalist hell-scape. Working to make some unseen ghouls rich.
When I went out of my way to fix things and make it better, I ended up getting promotions, but YMMV.
One's salary and career will advance more quickly by job hopping. Loyalty isn't just no longer encouraged — it's actively punished. You'll get a pay cut every year despite your productivity going up.
The exception to this is a strong union
Where im from that guarantees you never get promoted. To get promoted you need to fuck up so badly (also be the bosses friend too) that you get promoted away from where you can cause damage.
The only possible promotion from my position is to manager and I don't want to be in a leadership position.
I just got a bit of praise and more work
The way it worked for me:
Go out of my way to make things better -> get promotion and pay raise -> go out of my way to make things better again -> no promotion or pay raise -> do the absolute bare minimum -> big pay raise
Maybe they thought I enjoyed improving processes just to do it and saw it takes money to keep me doing it once I stopped.
Or maybe the forces that determine whether I get more money are beyond my understanding.
I had already learned this lesson, but then I changed careers, thought it might be different in the new industry, and I got sabotaged by a nepobaby.
And everyone clapped too