Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
We're hemorrhaging people (my department should have eleven workers, we're down to five, three of them in the last four months), half of our equipment is breaking down AND it's so old that the parts aren't even made anymore, and the only maintenance guy who knows how half of the plant works anymore just quit because he's tired of working 70-plus hour weeks. Management's response? Mandatory overtime. I think the only reason I got away with refusing to work Saturdays is because they realized I'm the only one left who knows how to operate the annealing furnaces and they can't afford to do anything to me right now (and god forbid the furnaces break down....again....because no way in hell am I qualified to do more than the most basic troubleshooting, and I will absolutely not play with the nitrogen and ammonia lines). And I'm not gonna lie, I'm updating my resume and getting ready to start looking again. I'm willing to put in a fair amount of hard work, but screw this noise.
I wanna say there is a subreddit full of good stories about employees seeing their job basically imploding on itself. I'm sure it goes without saying don't jump out of the ship until you have a lifeboat for yourself. Glad you are updating your resume.