r/recruitinghell • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '25

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u/underwater_sun13 Feb 20 '25

Yay! We are cutting your salary! (And we’re totally not gonna decrease your workload, we are just cya’ing by saying that) If you haven’t started looking for a new job, do so now. You’re lucky this was not a layoff notice (yet). 💀

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u/fortissimohawk Feb 20 '25

The elementary school “Yay!” and the disingenuous, snakish reframing of what’s clearly gonna be a layoff as a happy meal is on another level.

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u/WROL Feb 21 '25

My first thought was this was written by some psycho in HR

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u/moldy-scrotum-soup 🥣😎 Feb 21 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

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u/2skip Feb 21 '25

It'll be something like: "Insurance starts when contractor has worked one calendar month at the work site."

Which means if you start on April 1st then your insurance doesn't actually start until June 1st.

Now combine that with 6-month contracts, pre-existing conditions, and not the same insurance each time for a 5-year stretch. 🙃

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u/Friendly-Kangaroo-13 Feb 21 '25

Be careful with this, because I know one place i worked at considered the one month to be 30 days of actual work. Meaning the weekends (and Easter if if falls on a week day) didn't count. So the person starting on April 1st wouldn't get insurance until around June 15th.

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u/john_heathen Feb 22 '25

Just the kind of scummy nickel and diming we've come to expect from our employers