When I contracted at the evil AT&T our manager & the girl who kissed his ass & did no work were the only perms in our “team” of 10. Come bonus time he gathered us into an office to tell us about the profit share the perms would be getting whilst the contractors got nothing.
He claimed he was told he had to!
Which could be true, but he was a **** and I wouldn’t have been too surprised if he’d just done it to piss us off. Either way someone made the decision…
Also, after many months of much hard work (some of the most productive being on 2/3rds of what some of the less able were getting paid) we were told a perm position had opened on our “team” and and that existing team members couldn’t apply!
What a **** way to run a company! Nearly everyone I knew there hated the place and got shat on daily, but there were financial rewards that kept them taking the shit they were given.
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Edit: On topic – suck it up; you won’t do any good being a moaning myrtle (how’s that for a cultural reference then, eh?)