It was once an idea that if you got into retail sales, you could work your way to rasises, bonuses, and promotions that would make you a considerable amount of money, as well as being able to stay a while at the job. Now? The pay sucks, the work is nowhere carries no glamour or bonuses, and anybody who can last more than a year or two is in danger of being laid off.

Are there any other jobs that went in that route? What are your experiences?

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve had a couple jobs at 2 very large pharma companies. Most of us are not actually working for said pharma companies, we’re contracted labor, so even if we do a great job, they can just decide one day they want to go with someone else. Sometimes you’ll get picked up by the next provider, sometimes not.

    They just fired the heads of who I’m working for now and the company I was working for before this (doing literally the same job) because the pharma company was just “let’s try something new” this month.

    The previous site/different pharma I was at, we got replaced by a larger vendor and they said they already had people for my job, so I got the boot. I’m friends with the manager for that job outside of work and he says the new provider basically trashed everything and gave him a random asst. manager he can’t get rid of who trashed all the relationships we built up.

    Literally feels like I’m basically a Pokemon card they can swap in and out of the deck when they want. It’s a different feeling from other jobs because pleasing my boss or end users isn’t enough, because there’s both people on site or around the world that can just get bored of the company I work for and just kick us out at will.