Morale at Work

[AutoMechanic]

I’d say low morale.
It’s because they promise everyone advancements and raises after 90 days but it doesn’t happen. And they are too cheap to buy stuff like tire lifts so we kill our backs lifting huge tires. That’s why I became a Subaru tech cause I was sick of lifting big tires.

So yes to answer the questions:
1. 5
2. Yes because I’m tired of having backaches and leg aches everyday and tired of working from 7-6 everyday.
3. Yes even though I love cars I want to be a parts person even more each day.
4. Less stress and less non smart people and less hours having to work.
5. Auto Mechanic

 

[skyactiv]

Morale is 10/10 on day shift, but less on 2nd and 3rd shift where I'm at.
I don't plan on leaving or changing my career ever. I will retire with a pension and medical down the road at 57.

Semi fleet mechanic. Use to be a hard job to get. Now finding a new hire on 2nd or 3rd shift is difficult.
I like the unique challenges of the complex technology I deal with. Working in a special fire suppression bay when working on the fuel system of a LNG semi as an example.

 

[Imp4]

What's this 40hr thing all about? LOL I just finished eight 12hr shifts in a row. One was a 14.5hr, one was 13 given I worked when the clocks went back an hour.

A 96-hour week?
What an odd way to flex.
This sounds like a miserable existence.

 

[Dave Hess]

A 96-hour week?
What an odd way to flex.
This sounds like a miserable existence.

Not the best working hours and schedule. When you have kids to feed you’ll definitely do what you need to do to bring home the bacon. Lots of respect for him and work ethic.

 

[Imp4]

A 96-hour week?
What an odd way to flex.
This sounds like a miserable existence.

Not the best working hours and schedule. When you have kids to feed you’ll definitely do what you need to do to bring home the bacon. Lots of respect for him and work ethic.

I've never met or heard of anyone anyone that needed to work 96 hours a week to feed their kids.

I stand by my previous comment, what an odd flex.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

A 96-hour week?
What an odd way to flex.
This sounds like a miserable existence.

Some guys do that type of shift and then take like two weeks off. If he’s doing that all the time, insanity.

 

[Imp4]

A 96-hour week?
What an odd way to flex.
This sounds like a miserable existence.

Some guys do that type of shift and then take like two weeks off.

I don't doubt that you're correct.
And that sounds like a miserable existence.

 

[Dinoburner]

Todays quit culture IMHO is based on the perceived hopelessness of the times. It`s going to take a leader of uncommon stature to turn our malaise around.

 

[Oily_Thing]

I want to retire so badly. Thought about retiring early and going to Lowes to work stacking lumber to make up the difference. Currently doing 2 FTEs work and it sucks.

 

[nickaluch]

The workplace is screwed up right now. My wife just got back from a meeting at her office of all branch employees with the 4 highest officers of the natural gas utility. The meeting was about the upcoming vax mandate. Emotions are running high and 16+ year employees said they'll quit before they'll get vaxxed. Others said they aren't against the vax but won't be told what to do and will quit. These are $30/hr jobs that will be almost impossible to replace in this area. The CEO said they have to follow the law whatever it ends up being. Being a utility with 1500 workers they have no choice. Wife thinks at this time 1/3 are vaxxed here. The vaxxed workers will never keep up. Emotions high, morale low. What a mess.

No political statement made or intended and please don't get the thread locked.

Get the jab is my advice

 

[dnewton3]

Morale where I worked (just left this summer) is pretty darn low. The mass exedus of engineers and others such as financial folks, marketing folks, manfacturing folks is really bad in my former company. I flat out quit when they demanded some very unreasonable items from the worker bees. I had the ability to retire early, so I did. Many of the other folks who quit but can't retire, are finding similar jobs in other industries at 20%-30% more money and better benefits. My former employer is being gutted by it's own internal stupidity.

My own workgroup which I left is supposed to have 7 engineers; they're down to 2. (They hired a third and ended up firing him three weeks later). There's no possible way 2 engineers are going to get the work done of 7. And that's just one example which represents many other similar experiences in other areas of the company. Projects are dying and programs are falling horribly behind. And corporate management is blaming anyone but themselves. They survey the entire employee roster ever 3 months in anonymous tools (Survey Monkey), and the results are always the same; employees want more money, work from home continuation, benefits ... What does Managment do? They get rid of our offices and stick us in "open workspace" tables and bistros, which no one ever asked for. To be fair, they did give us a choice of two different kinds of chairs we could have at our new tiny desks ... Like that makes up for the paltry raises, all while the company is having it's two best fiscal years ever!

We all know there's a massive general shortage of labor everywhere; it's affecting most every aspect of life. It's not going to get better when big companies are treating their employees like a lowly commodity rather than real people who deserve respect and rewards for hard work.

 

[Danno]

Was packaged out of a Fortune 50 company after 35 years, that had great training and business processes. Was the national fleet manager.

Landed a job at a large car dealership with local ownership. My sole goal is to use the skills from previous job to hire correctly, help new employees improve themselves and progress, improve business process and ultimately make the owners more profit. Some days are better than others but the job has been challenging and rewarding.

Pay is secondary frankly.

 

[Skippy722]

Worker bee chiming in here...

I'm seeing a lot of low morale in my workplace, and from what I gather it seems to be pretty typical across other industries as well. I'm really curious what others are experiencing. We have a lot of good people heading for the door at my work. I'm struggling myself with lack of motivation due to increased workloads, no incentives (i.e. no bonuses/raises) and a generally ever increasing chaotic work environment.

Questions:
1. On a scale of 1-10 (1 low, 10 high), how is the current morale in your workplace?
2. Have you yourself considered leaving your current job, and why?
3. Have you considered changing industries completely?
4. What are you looking for in another job/industry, that you currently don't have at your current job?

edit:
5. What industry are you in?

1. Can’t speak for days, but nightshift is pretty apathetic.
2. Yep…. Operators union pays 1st year apprentices about what I make.
3. Yes, I’d like to get into nursing but I really don’t want to go to college since I am on nights and work 11 hours a day.
4. Anything else I’m interested in works similar hours/conditions for the most part.
5. Machinist

The reason I say nightshift is apathetic is because of how they schedule us and nightshifts shift differential… we work at most 55 hours a week, but when we do that day shift gets 56 hours. We still come out ahead a bit, but it diminishes the whole point of a shift differential. We’re based on 4 10 hour days vs dayshifts 5 8 hour days, so say for thanksgiving which they give us 2 days off for day shift will get paid for 50 hours where night shift will only get paid for 45… the office jockeys reasoning is Friday is 100% OT and we’re not “scheduled” for that Friday despite being on required 50 hours a week otherwise.

 

[Vern_in_IL]

Worker bee chiming in here...

I'm seeing a lot of low morale in my workplace, and from what I gather it seems to be pretty typical across other industries as well. I'm really curious what others are experiencing. We have a lot of good people heading for the door at my work. I'm struggling myself with lack of motivation due to increased workloads, no incentives (i.e. no bonuses/raises) and a generally ever increasing chaotic work environment.

Questions:
1. On a scale of 1-10 (1 low, 10 high), how is the current morale in your workplace?
2. Have you yourself considered leaving your current job, and why?
3. Have you considered changing industries completely?
4. What are you looking for in another job/industry, that you currently don't have at your current job?

edit:
5. What industry are you in?

1. morale is an eight.(8) No expectations of "profit sharing" this year.
We are worried about inflation, and new hires are making $17/hr just a dollar less than me a 20 year employee.
2. No I have not considered leaving my current job...and we are hiring!
3. Nope
4. If I was looking elsewhere, Union pipe fitter/electrician, with pension.
5. Automotive tier one supplier, our modules use supplier chips which are in great shortage. So plenty of lay off time, and soon a crunch of OT to get product to the dealer lots.

 

[Cujet]

We are seeing the signs of lower morale in the business jet world too. Old guys like me leaving and workloads way beyond reasonable. A perfect storm of conditions, supply issues, attitudes and stagnating pay. Why work so long, so hard, for so little?

 

[TumblrDucks]

I just think people are tired. Myself included.

Two weeks off a year isn't enough, and 40 hours a week is too much. It worked ok like 50 years ago when there were lots of people around to do the work. Companies valued employees and paid them handsomely, and the workload was reasonable. People also didn't need to battle as much traffic to get to work, and/or they could afford to live closer to work, etc, reducing time constraints compared to today.

Now, people are leaned on very heavily because companies are using less people to do the same amount of work. Those same people are not really getting raises (especially compared to the cost of living). There is no loyalty anymore, companies lay people off at the drop of a hat, and people leave companies to go somewhere else for 10% more pay.

I genuinely believe that if the standard was 3-4 weeks off, and 32-36 hours per week, people would be a lot better off mentally.

4 work day week seems to be good idea? I heard Microsoft once conducted a trial at Japan and result is good, no productivity losses.

 

[parshisa]

Oil and gas here. Been on a decline both career progression and compensation wise since late 2018. Finally got laid off in 2020. Back to work with a new company in April this year. I don’t know if it’s the company or something else but people are like ghosts, don’t talk, don’t communicate and it’s **** frustrating. Got a 0.5% raise beating all the metrics on performance review. Looking for a new job and won’t look back

 

[Job]

It depends on ones sphere of people they associate with I would say, that paints the local picture. Housing prices tend to depress the younger groups who feel it‘s hopeless for them. It pretty much is to get a home and have the American dream unless they make some bucks.

 

[Nick1994]

Questions:
1. On a scale of 1-10 (1 low, 10 high), how is the current morale in your workplace?
I'd say a 7-8
2. Have you yourself considered leaving your current job, and why?
Nope.
3. Have you considered changing industries completely?
No, changed jobs in same department last February, happiness is 100x what it was.
4. What are you looking for in another job/industry, that you currently don't have at your current job?
5. What industry are you in?
Transportation. But I work IT.

The world is a tough place right now. We will soldier through it.

The workplace is screwed up right now. My wife just got back from a meeting at her office of all branch employees with the 4 highest officers of the natural gas utility. The meeting was about the upcoming vax mandate. Emotions are running high and 16+ year employees said they'll quit before they'll get vaxxed. Others said they aren't against the vax but won't be told what to do and will quit. These are $30/hr jobs that will be almost impossible to replace in this area. The CEO said they have to follow the law whatever it ends up being. Being a utility with 1500 workers they have no choice. Wife thinks at this time 1/3 are vaxxed here. The vaxxed workers will never keep up. Emotions high, morale low. What a mess.

No political statement made or intended and please don't get the thread locked.

Not sure why people are so upset by this. There is no vaccine mandate. If you don't want the vaccine, get a weekly test. I've had several tests, they're quick, easy, free, and the whole process takes maybe 10 minutes? A lot of cry babies.

 

[JeffKeryk]

I was a computer programmer for large scale, custom application development for High Tech Silicon Valley companies.
My work was in corporate forcast and financial actuals calculations, operations and predictive analytics.

I love Silicon Valley, but there is one thing I cannot stand. While everyone has good days and bad days, waaaaay to many people take their job for granted and are slackers. Especially in IT.
As a recovering alcoholic, I am forever grateful for the opportunites afforded to me by my employers.
While Silicon Valley can be truly cutthroat, I loved every minute of it; they were very good to me.

The primary industry was Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment (Novellus and Lam Research); we made the multi-million dollar tools that process wafers into chips. Primarily Deposition and Etch. I also worked the last 7 years in Software (Symantec).