What job you hold in the organization has always dictated perks and early dismissal in this organization, but this pandemic has highlighted it. Low paid employees are expected to come in everyday, while higher paid employees work from home, or work in departments that have split shifts, making sure all staff is not in the office at the same time to avoid infections. It's again the haves and have nots attitude.
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Customer facing jobs require employees to be there during normal business hours. For more back office jobs, there are tasks that have to get done, doesnt matter if you leave early or not.
Someone already mentioned this better than I can, but it doesn't matter if I need to leave early to pick my sick kid up at school, get early release on a holiday weekend or am able to work from home. If I don't get my work done I'll get fired. So I might leave early but have to log in after dinner to finish my work......
The over generalization in these comments is unreal.
To those who think skill, intellect and hard work will make you rise to the top, work in those areas considered elite in the company. Ther it is still who you know not what know there. Look at all the trust fund babies working, or rather holding a senior position and moving up the proverbial ladder at astounding speeds. For a Company who toots hiring at all levels, proud of its diverse workforce, it is still behind the 8th ball on the treatment of those at lower levels with less skill. Remember you need all types of skills and abilities in an organization. You can't have MBAs and PHDs in all positions. Who is going to pick up the files and order the paper? And to the Bulgarian , yep, a $1 an hour holding a PHD is a sin, but, how many PHDs can a company afford before they find a way to replace them with AI, an analyst and a clerk? And it is that clerk that will be treated with no respect like you.
Replace the word "paid" with "skilled" in your post a couple of times and you may be on to something. Learn something new and change your position. Go from hourly to salary, but don't expect to last long if your mindset is to hope for early dismissal as often as possible. The work you don't finish today is still there waiting for you tomorrow whether you put in 6 hours or 12 before the day ends. Almost nobody initially gets and stays promoted past a production position on charm or who they know. Its what you know that counts, so keep learning.
Isn't food chain an outdated 80s term for the office culture? C'mon man modernize!!!
Friendly feedback - it's food chain, not food change
Get a higher paying job then and work remote. If they can do it you can, its America earn it. Thow away your Bernie Sanders/Lizard Warren idea's. I'm Bulgarian, I've seen the other side, your current thought process, it leads to making 1 dollar an hour holding a PhD, that's if your lucky.
Whatever. Get over it.