He gets a massive pay rise because my boss says he can't work from home.

But then the entire company transitions to working from home.

This story is about a co-worker who we'll call Joe.

The company we work for is fantastic, really good pay and benefits, and the work really isn't that hard.

However, like most places with incompetent management,

that one department was really bad. And everyone knows it, and from day one it was obvious

that Joe was one of the hardest working people on the team. And our awful manager, Samantha,

couldn't stand him. So this is a few years under Joe's tenure with the team,

and for whatever reason or another, Samantha decides to put Joe on performance notice,

which is basically an HR notice that says you have six months to get your crap together

or you're fired. The reason on the paperwork was improper attitude. Joe was the kind of guy who always speaks his mind, and while management says they love

this, brutal experience shows this is a lie.

The problem with notice is that it also comes with penalties.

No work from home, they literally take your laptop away and bring you a thin client, no

approved overtime, and

no learning new things or assignments.

Oh, and no raise or bonus.

You have to prove you can do your job well, and then after the six months, if you're not fired,

the manager can extend with an additional probation period of another six months.

January of every year is when we find out about our raises and bonuses from the previous year.

And to put it delicately, that January, they effed us.

To the point that one person walked out and two older employees, more than 30 years each,

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