Sounds like a good company. As most companies get bigger and get bought out those perks tend to disappear.

it only happened after we bled talent and failed to get new hires. min you we have about a 1 year span before a new guy with not experience is even useful. so lack of new hires and losing experienced engineers killed us. i had to actually work hard there for a while.

Ah, so your company actually trains its employees rofl. Most around here just cycle through employees with an "only the strong survive" mentality. High turnover and perks like happy hours are probably the worst red flags. Some will even force their employees to give them a good review on glassdoor.

And around where I live most companies have the opposite mindset on raises and perks. Once they see a death spiral approaching, they'll resort to indirect means. Never negotiation to benefit workers.

They will scour hundreds of resumes for people that are desperate: high school degrees, single father with alimony bills, H1B-visa holders from third world countries. That way they have an indentured servant that has no choice but to work hard for low pay (and possibly risky, dangerous work). H1B-visa holders are basically modern-day corporate slaves.

But their strategy makes sense on paper if their ultimate goal is profit. Your company probably can't get away with it without name recognition and a large pool of candidates.

Jesus Christ, I'm turning into inkanddagger.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Mar 1 2022 02:05pm

we train people, by a trial by fire that last 2 years where they cant be fired for mistakes no matter how many they make. they get endless questions to ask, and unless they're lucky to be trained by me it sucks for them. the only solace is that window of invulnerability where no matter how fucked u are at the job ur safe. we have 10x more people quit than we have people fired. in all my 10 years here we've fired 2 people, 1 for watching porn 4 hours per day on his work computer, the other for mistakes after 3 years of being shit.

The US average price in Feb 2020 was around $2.35/gal. In the two years prior to that, the national average was below that in only three months (Dec 2018-Feb 2019), and the lowest the average fell was about $2.15. The highest it was in that period was $2.81. Now obviously, there are going to be regional differences in price (like CA vs the Gulf coast), but on par, other than April and May of 2020 (the height of lockdowns), the last time the national average was at or below $1.75 was February of 2016.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMRU_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=M

Some states impose state taxes.

And if that EIA report doesn't account for state gas taxes, then that average price would be even higher. Either way, except in certain areas of the country with lower average prices, gas prices were $1.75 during lockdowns, which was the whole point regarding that shitty Branco cartoon that Ghot posted.

This is such a shitty hill to die on. Biden is worse and gas prices are sky high.

Like seriously, how are you related to Santara?