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I work for a real shitty company with a lot of people who do things just to justify their jobs. This leads to stupid mistakes happening that can cause MASSIVE disruptions for the entire workforce. One such stupid mistake happened this week and caused my team (and several others) a shitload of unnecessary work. Yesterday a guy on my team who works in an already understaffed office had enough and told me that he's done, and quitting. I can't blame him, he is in a very shitty situation and I wouldn't have stayed as long as he has... but if he walked out it would have put that entire location, the rest of our team both locally and extended, in a much worse situation. What it wouldn't do is hurt the company or the executives.
I'm all for people finding better jobs and leaving toxic environments, but it really does no one any good to pick the absolute worst time to walk out. That's petty and will burn a lot of bridges, and depending on your situation and industry could come back to haunt you down the road.
That's not your problem, that's the company's problem. You still get paid the same. If you have issues, take them to your supervisor, and go on with your life.
Except I don't still get paid the same. Someone walked out last year and put the whole team in a tailspin and the rest of the team paid for it when review time came around and since we missed so many deadlines due to staffing issues no one got any sort of substantial raise. And missing your once-a-year raise doesn't just impact your pay for that year, it impacts it for every year going forward.
I'm not sure I'd want to work somewhere that penalizes me for someone else's faults.
Have you considered finding a union to bring to your workplace?
So... most workplaces? Most companies have department wide goals and metrics that don't change just because half of a department walks. Even in good workplaces, hiring to "right size" a team takes time, and most of the time the work still needs to be done, and there's only so far management can stretch until it starts impacting external customers.
It sucks terribly. It's not fair. Life isn't.
Trust me, I don't want to work here either, but having spent 6 months looking for a job and eating through my savings and knowing that I'm in no position to do that again anytime soon, I don't exactly have many options. And yes, I've considered a union, but I also don't want to end up unemployed again so I'm not going to be the one to champion that.
If you have the job now, why would you quit and burn savings instead of searching while you have stable income?
And getting fired for attempting unionization is a pretty slam-dunk case for a labor lawyer, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to go through that hassle.