I'm a VP with a biggish company. Every year, the first week of the year the senior managers from across the US fly somewhere warm, play golf, shoot guns, sit by a beach or a pool, get wasted, ham handedly try to cheat on their spouses and have meetings about how to take more of your labor value. Obviously due to covid that won't be a thing this year, and instead the conferences are virtual, so me, and a couple hundred other ghouls who already make six figures + got shipped huge snack boxes, boxes of booze and received $500 credits at door dash. The CEO just gave his kickoff presentation and, with all the money they saved from not paying for travel they're giving away ten k worth of Amazon gift cards and a brand new Tesla. So just who is eligible for this windfall, you ask. The hundreds of warehouse workers who couldn't work from home, the truck drivers out on the road, installers and sales people exposing themselves to covid every day? Nah, us couple hundred ghouls already making incomes in the top 5%. Can I just guillotine myself and be done with this already?

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I’m an AVP and been working at my job for 3 years (first job out of college) and at least half the people I work with are VPs. It’s not meaningful title at my employer, but were not in the class of people who get to go on these kind of retreats.

      • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I lEaRnEd tO cOde

        In all honesty I’m just really lucky that my school had a good career services department with connections to major companies in my city so I was able to get an internship where I did literally nothing and got offered to come back full time after graduating.

        Also being a white woman makes it easier to get hired in tech for these kind of entry level roles at dinosaur companies.