{"id":30,"date":"2024-11-18T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/?p=30"},"modified":"2024-11-18T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:37:08","slug":"week-8-blog-assignment-would-compensation-have-mattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/2024\/11\/18\/week-8-blog-assignment-would-compensation-have-mattered\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 Blog Assignment: Would Compensation Have Mattered?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Situation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For this blog post, I think I am going to talk about my personal experience with a previous employer. I had originally been hired as a cashier at a popular thrift store. I was excited for this as I had just left a housekeeper position at a nearby hotel. After working at this thrift store for a couple months, I had wanted to move into a new position. Luckily, I was able to move to pricing shoes, rather than cashiering. Unfortunately, this opened the door for overworking. After I moved into the back, where everything is sorted and priced, I was tasked with sorting and pricing shoes, sizing and stocking clothing on the floor, stocking books, helping with incoming donations AND cashiering, all as needed. I was working five separate jobs for the price of one. On top of those five jobs, I also had to be available at the drop of a hat during my shift to help my manager and assistant manager with anything they needed. Lastly, they had introduced quotas we all had to meet. Imagine needing to meet a quota for four different jobs at once. It was a nightmare job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If being overworked wasn&#8217;t enough, I got paid maybe $12\/hr. It, overall, was not worth the time, effort or mental and physical exhaustion the jobs were putting me through. I started looking for a job and started reducing the amount of effort I put into my work. I&#8217;m not proud of it, but due to the quotas and constant stress from additional jobs needing done, I would price and put out shoes ridiculously high for a thrift store just to meet the quota so I could work on the other jobs needing done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8090\/files\/2024\/11\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Outcome<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The entirety of this situation was absolutely motivated by compensation. Had I been paid for the effort I was putting in for those five jobs, I likely would have stayed longer. Additionally, I was getting irritated that I was tasked with so many different positions while my coworkers had one, maybe two, positions they had to focus on each day and they got paid more than I did. All of it was clear there was negative inequity occurring with myself and the positions I filled. I started with a decrease in output and ended with leaving the organization. It was such a bad experience that I swore I would never work for the company again unless it was my absolute only option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Situation For this blog post, I think I am going to talk about my personal experience with a previous employer. I had originally been hired as a cashier at a popular thrift store. I was excited for this as I had just left a housekeeper position at a nearby hotel. After working at this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/2024\/11\/18\/week-8-blog-assignment-would-compensation-have-mattered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 8 Blog Assignment: Would Compensation Have Mattered?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/themattersofhrm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}