I am still trying to understand how a job that I once enjoyed went belly up. First, you have the pandemic, at which point I took a mandatory 10K cut in pay with a promise from the CEO that because of the pay cut, I could take 4 - 6 hours back per week to spend it with my family...but how on earth can that happen, when you downsized our teams and because I was fortunate enough to keep my job, you then tripled my workload?!?
Next, because our recruiting team has just been up ended, and my client is hiring like gangbusters, I worked, and I worked, and I worked, night and day to get caught up. I worked 15 plus hour days. I worked nights and weekends. I worked, and I worked, and I worked some more, and I could never keep up with the demand.
Then, you screwed with our bonus. Sure, it's not much of a bonus, but after working like a dog for the past year, pulling 75 - 80 plus hour work weeks every single week of the year (and several weekends too), leadership tells me that in addition to stealing money from me last year, that apparently my hard work and exceeding expectations from both Cielo and my client does not net me my full bonus? Seriously??? If that's the case, why did I just spend a year ignoring my family while I lived with my laptop by my side to keep finding talent for my client? I know why - I had a reputation to protect because high level technical recruiting is a very, very small industry, AND...I had a client that I wanted to be proud of me and my effort. And guess what? My client was successful! They had a banner year and they rewarded their full time employees thusly, but for some reason, Cielo just couldn't see my value, and nickel and dimed me once again over money that should have been mine.
But the final nail in the coffin after being over worked and under paid and not valued was the new payroll system that Cielo deployed this past January. There was a glitch in the system that prevented employees based in California from accruing PTO. And no one in payroll seemed to care. I had to ask, and ask, and ask again and again why I was not accruing PTO. I was referred back to the employee handbook, and I was brushed off, and I was ignored. It took over 3 months to get that glitch in your payroll system corrected. 3 months!!! And I seriously only think that it was repaired because I had finally had enough and I resigned, and I insisted that I see an itemized statement from payroll telling me how much PTO I was paid out in my final payroll check.
In summary, this is an awful, no good, very bad company to work for. They do not care about the people. They care about their bottom line.
