Burned out, stressed and misreble
Not a FTE but working as a contract employee. I work in manufacturing. Team is Warren based but I’m based from plant location. I’m burned out at this job and miserable. Full time counterparts do not undertake any workload and our GM manager ends up delegating everything on me. Same is the story with my other friends working as contract employees. We do not get any benefits (no team GM, no health insurance, no 10% 401k, no performance bonus nothing whatsoever ) I’m so stressed and anxious that I literally get nightmares. I’m fine with all of this, I can handle stress but I’m getting paid 🥜 Evenif GM pays my contract company a very high bill rate, we contract employees do not get fair share. It’s just unfair to see your full time colleagues having a very good work-life balance, get all good pay and all the benifits and I have my ass off and my pay is no where near to those guys. It just makes me cry. All of you full time employees at GM, you guys are very lucky. I’m under constant stress that if I do not work, I lose my job. It’s very easy to fire a contract employee compared to full time employee. No hope to get converted into full time, due to GM being very unfriendly towards visa sponsership. The only reason, or motivation for me to stay with my current contract company is because they have filed my perm which is currently in process YOE: 7 TC:84K (that’s it, I don’t a single penny more) #tech #gm#
This is the life of every single h1b guy in USA.
I worked at ford for two years and felt very bad for the h1b employees. A lot of Indian employees in IT immigrated to the US for work and I think they had false ideas about what working in the US is like for immigrants. Then feelings like this come up. I was earning $75k as a salary employee and got fired from ford bc I was mouthing off and making memes. Tbh, the auto industry in general doesn’t pay much. It was only till after I published my first app on the App Store did I get calls from recruiters for double my previous wage from the auto co’s. However, when I was working at ford there’s no way I woulda had the mental stamina to develop and publish an app to the stores.. I was unemployed for a year before I got my next job as a fully remote mobile developer at Sunnova making $100k. I am very aware of how blessed I am to not have to get a job in 2 months or get deported though like how H1Bs have… that’s a total different game of stress. However, looking at it from a macro economic vantage point it makes sense that (**all) countries use immigrants to fill the jobs that their local citizens don’t want… local citizens in the Detroit area know that working at the auto companies is not glamorous at all for 90% of the workers. There’s hierarchies though— plant work, where it sounds you’re at, is by far the worst… transferring is also a nightmare for employees no matter the employee status, both GM and ford were originally designed to keep employees in the same role as long as possible on assembly lines for peak efficiency. That culture still lives strong
You should write an autobiography.