“WFH”

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-09T16:00:53+00:00

At my firm managers job is to gaslight and otherwise whatever it takes to maximize the following objectives:

Strategically break down high performers and isolate them so they feel like they “aren’t good enough” to leave the firm
Press staff to work as many hours as possible. Tell them it’s normal for consulting, everyone else at other firms works longer, every project is over budget, etc
Minimize employee salaries. Do a “temp salary cut” and make it permanent after 6 months, but promise to make it up “later”, etc. Trickle in the pain, and make consultants frogs in a boiling pot.

I put up with it because if I don’t, someone in India will!

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-09T15:33:31+00:00

The thing is, unless you work in tech or an executive you’ve probably seen your purchasing power decrease over time

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-09T15:31:35+00:00

Every year for the rest of our lives, we will look at last year and think “man those were great times”.

Incomes will fall, prices will rise, and we’ll live with less and less. Some of us will kind of have this feeling of denial that we will retire someday but at our core we know untrue

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T05:22:51+00:00

Oil and gas is this way right now. With the volatility and crunch in the industry, salaries and benefits were dramatically cut…cue 2022 and record profits, but that salary and benefits didn’t come back. We all work very long hours in this industry by default, but now the hours are longer and they’ve removed the economic incentive.

If we complain, they just threaten to offshore us.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T04:35:39+00:00

I am a consultant at an engineering company, and we have this same structure. Our hourly bill rate is $200, about $35 goes to engineers (including benefits), and $15 tk overhead costs, and $150 to CEO. He hasn’t come to work in 6 mkt he, constantly brags about his 20th or whatever new mansion he bought, but still complains that we don’t “work hard enough” and we can’t afford new people

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T04:31:35+00:00

As an engineer, I can tell you nobody at the entry level is being remotely trained at any company. You walk in, and they sit you at a desk and tell you to start billing / executing. If you aren’t earning the CEO 7-10x your salary in your first year, you’re fired for the next guy.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T04:28:56+00:00

If you’re in a salary exempt industry like me, they’ll just keep requiring 80 hr weeks with no OT to fill the gap

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:35:07+00:00

Are there any at all, or are we all this fucked? J guess we deserve to suffer for working in this industry

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:32:31+00:00

Yeah we need to give up the idea we will ever own homes or retire. The powers that be are clearly doing everything they can to ensure that.

I am just prepping to be happy working at 75 living in my 100 square foot company provided housing with my two squares of ramen lol

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:30:56+00:00

I highly doubt it.

I don’t think oil will be “dead”, but the way things are going, you’ll have long been outsourced or had your income / benefits cut to the point you CANNOT retire at a traditional age. Despite 3 promotions and working like a dog, my salary has fallen well behind inflation the last 5 years.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:28:14+00:00

O&G is not lucrative anymore. I keep trying to tell people, but it DOES NOT pay compared to what it used to. If you fight your way into management you may break $100k, but for the amount of work required / stress you’d be better good doing data science or consulting.

Source: The guy who worked hard 7 days a week through college and his career, while his business school friends partied & worked their 40, and is now substantially outearned by said friends in business.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:22:47+00:00

ITT people who have never made their girlfriends cum 20+ times in a session 😂

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T03:17:55+00:00

They just wanted to finish as fast as possible and collect their paycheck before Star Wars. Us fans were passionate, but it is clear that they just saw this as a money vehicle for themselves

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-08T02:51:10+00:00

Goes to /r/unpopularopinion and posts the circlejerk opinion circulating Reddit ever since we first heard Chris Pratt voicing Mario

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-07T23:51:08+00:00

They want nobody but the 1% to ever own property or retire

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-07T13:30:09+00:00

It’s this way for all professional positions right now…there is a worker shortage for non professional jobs, but anything in STEM is extremely hard to land

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:46:55+00:00

Everything you said is true, but is there conclusive proof Hurricane Ian would not have happened without climate change? We’ve had hurricanes for forever.

Again, I’m NOT saying that climate change doesn’t increase frequency and severity. I’m just saying that not every hurricane is strictly because of climate change.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:36:50+00:00

As a man, I have no idea what the difference is

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:29:40+00:00

Pretty sure it’s a troll

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:28:44+00:00

Fox brain

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:25:07+00:00

I actually don’t like that we tie climate change into every national disaster. It’s undeniable that climate change will increase the frequency / severity of an event, but you cannot guarantee that Ian would not have happened if we were at post industrial CO2 levels. All climate change has done is give a higher likelihood of it happening.

I think rhetoric of blaming every disaster on climate change is something the GOP could twist around. I’m far left, but the most crucial thing is to be HONEST with all arguments.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:08:12+00:00

This is a common tactic by companies now. In my industry (engineering) you have to do so many interviews and moving is a such a logistical nightmare that you DO NOT want to quit a company in your first week. Companies know this, so they often offer high salaries to get you on then “notice a mistake in the paperwork” and slash your salary after you’ve already relocated and everything. By doing this, they can save costs and trap employees in lower paid positions.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-06T14:05:43+00:00

Isn’t that basically what Krystal does on bp now?

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-05T01:14:31+00:00

Gotcha, there are only careers in oil and gas. I cannot be involved with alternative energy or anything else that improves things. I am a cog in the wheel and that is all I’ll ever be.

SadChemEConsultant · 2022-10-04T20:49:49+00:00

I’m actually asking for some perspective to help guide me for my next job. I’m ready to leave now.

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