Check the galley freezer during your interview… if there’s a pile of electrolyte freeze pops in there… you know they’re going to work you like the south won 😅

lol the sign-on bonus explanation is perfect to describe teacher's sign on bonus.

Great info thanks

I remember getting an interview with Waste Connexions (I live in Québec), they had a sign on bonus. When I found out that they have cameras in the cab watching the driver, who is not allowed to drink water, talk on the phone ect unless the brakes are pulled, I got turned off. They have insane turnover and appatantly poor maintenance, as well as overbearing management. Not to mention new drivers would be thrown all over the place on any rout and truck in different cities. I guess I dodged a bullet.

Sign on bonus means employee retention problems. It's a retention incentive to get the new people to put up with sometimes illegal employment practices and unnecessarily unsafe conditions. My boss on a delivery job once bought a replacement truck. He swapped a truck that wouldn't start for a truck that wouldn't stop rolling, had bouncy exterior mirrors, two of four double wheels flat, no heat for the defroster, non functioning washer fluid system, and shredded windshield wipers. After surviving my first day in it I absolutely refused to get into it again until he fixed ALL the problems affecting safety. He TOLD ME he had and I returned to find that only half the list was done. After my first stop I returned to the shop and went home. He still had me back after the entire list was fixed. That's how hard up he was to get a worker at my price point.

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