WE WORK: American ilxors who do you work for?

I forgot "worker-owned co-op" as an option -- oops!

good poll, following

"worker owned" should def be a writein

For those of you who have multiple employment types, choose the one that pays you the most/ is most reliable source of income

we can also use this thread to make fun of that awful We Work company if this poll doesn't get traction

joined a medium-sized company. Now part of a large corporation.

If our work situation changes before the poll expires in two years, do we get to vote again?

If our work situation changes before the poll expires in two years, do we get to vote again?

(Pardon the double post, my phone does that sometimes)

I'm assuming multiple owner models still count as small business, e.g. my company has ~ 20 employees and five owners (three are 51% majority, two are partial) who work their asses off right next to us.

xpost lol oh dear, polls can't be edited, sarahell did you want that closing date?

Idk do state universities count as government agencies? Because that’s what I clicked. Hopefully I can continue working at this one forever.

Large corporation

not seeing the "lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy" option

I'm an Adjunct Professor at the moment, for a state run network of colleges.

retired and thankful every day. I'm so damned tired and sore even with not working that it's hard to imagine dragging myself up each day. this may not be heaven, but it'll do until I die.

non-profit with more than 50 employees

I am a public school teacher but am currently teaching very part time because the district was barely hiring this year.

medium size (main job), small business (side hustle)

Self-employed/freelance.

I’m self-employed, in business with a partner. First time I have ever worked for myself. It’s been two and a half years and we’re still going so it seems sustainable for the near future. But also could easily change in a hurry because there are only two of us and if one were incapacitated, it would make things hard.

Prior jobs have been at organizations of 10 to 60 to 1,600. I prefer smaller organizations, in general. It’s easier to do things.

Oh, and mine are all private sector except for 7 years in local government.

megacorp, although one that is not publicly traded

i picked the medium-sized company option. i work for a privately held company that has <1000 usa employees, but the majority of the employees are in other countries.

I work for the state social services agency.

"I work for a medium-sized company (more than 50 employees, but not listed on a stock exchange)"

I've been telecommuting since 2016, though, so the only people I ever talk to are the dozen or so people in my department. Feels like a small business almost every day.

Large company (10k+ employees), but privately owned/not publicly traded

Small bidness - I haven’t regularly worked anywhere in the last 20 years with more than 5 employees.

Public school right now, so I assume that's considered a govt. agency

i'm not working right now

i never want to work

for those of you who work for small businesses -- does the place you work pay everyone what you consider a fair wage?

I prefer smaller organizations, in general. It’s easier to do things.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra),

I feel the same way

my experience has been mixed with small, mid-size, and large companies. so i'd have to say it depends whether or not the company offers good benefits and if its people and work culture are cool, interesting, and/or fun.

i currently work for a very large corporation (79k employees) but they break us up into smaller business units, and i really love it. but i also really like the people i work with. despite being a global company, we'll sometimes get contractors that work with us and think we're a small company, which is kind of funny, but also cool that we operate this way. it's like the flexibility of being a small company with the perks of a large one. that's for the most part. sometimes the legality of stuff and compliances we have to meet remind me that we are a big company, but those processes are pretty streamlined albeit tedious.

i also do contract work, which is basically my own business, but that's just for fun.

Idk do state universities count as government agencies? Because that’s what I clicked. Hopefully I can continue working at this one forever.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:37 PM (yesterday)

yes. you have great aptitude in filling out forms.

i work for a large corporation lol

I worked for a large corporation, which paid me to leave (early retirement) and now I contract through two small companies back to two large public utilities I worked with when I was at the large corporation.

I voted small business, because each contracting company is, and I'm a 1040 employee of each, but that seems not exactly right?

Idk do state universities count as government agencies?

public institution not a government agency imo

non-profit with more than 50 employees

― brimstead, Saturday, March 6, 2021 9:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Same

I work for a government agency. That’s as specific as I’d like to be.

medium sized

small business

very large university

I work for a government agency. That’s as specific as I’d like to be.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, March 8, 2021 3:49 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Where is "I am funemployed"?

large global corporation but you can't buy our stock....though we're going public soon.

then I believe we are going to tank and I will eventually be laid off because lol our leaders are morons.

In year 20 of self-employed/no employees.

xp - from the way you describe what your company does, I would guess it would be bought out by a larger company.

yeah technically a bigger company does 'own' us, but I think we're changing owners.

sucks because when I started, we had a different name and were our own entity. and had free lunch provided to us in our cafeteria. those were the days!

Where is "I am funemployed"?

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:19 AM (three hours ago)

i actually kinda might have a work-related question for you lol -- can I message you on fb? (not like immediate but like soon-ish?)

So when does a medium-sized company become a large corporation (besides being public)?

small and plucky subsidiary of a large

reverse triangular merger

Of course!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

If our work situation changes before the poll expires in two years, do we get to vote again?

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, March 7, 2021 2:26 PM (one year ago)

If our work situation changes before the poll expires in two years, do we get to vote again?

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, March 7, 2021 2:26 PM (one year ago)

last chance to ask again!

Dramatic job change for me in January of 2022, but small business still covers it. I feel it pays an equitable wage across all levels - I've got a posting up for an entry level operator that starts at $29/hr (ty IBEW!) and top exec pay is 2x that.

I work for a government agency. That’s as specific as I’d like to be.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, March 8, 2021 8:49 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oooooooh scary! Shut up, asshole.

I really hope people found time to respond to this poll.

I work for a large corporation (like, you can buy stock in my employer, large)

was a medium-size company when i started, now a medium-size subsidiary of a large corporation

I work for a large corporation (like, you can buy stock in my employer, large)

18 year anniversary last year. started as a private company, went public shortly after I joined, merged with a competitor in an ill-fated decision, and then got spun off as its own company and went public again. our stock sucks lol.

company was jaw-dropping amazing place to work between 2005-2006 (cheap, excellent benefits, for a time free food, beverages, ice cream, better pay raises and less hoops to clear the thresholds to get them).

dropped down to 'pretty good' place to work from 2007 - 2009, after the merger became a mediocre place to work, hasn't really recovered even post-spinoff.

most people here will probably not believe it given my posts in 'stupid annoying co-worker' thread, but though I think my company is fairly poor and run by lint-licking journeymen, I'm fairly content here. my secret is to find good departments that operate much better than the rest of the company. yes, there was a two month period last year where I was ready to walk due to understaffing, but they responded by doubling our staff to the highest levels in the dept's history, which has solved that problem. also - my mood was much harder to control given the issues with my dad's health last year. some of my posts in that thread are exaggerated to clown on people.

people often tell me to leave, thinking I could make more elsewhere, but important context = my salary right now does not match what I do. I earned a lot of pay increases over 18 years (about tripling my salary), but when you switch roles, they freeze your pay, so you don't lose money. I went down a few pay grades but kept my cushy salary. to get what I'm getting now, I'd have to go back to project managing/60 hour weeks and I can't do that anymore.

our stock is pretty poor though lol, I think it went live in 2021, but it's struggled since it posted to the exchange.

I forgot I started this poll lol

(also, part of me wants to stay because it's one thing I'm most proud of - managing an unusual 18 year career in a niche field that I'd never even heard of prior to applying, when prior to that, it really looked like I was going to be the black sheep of the family, flunking out of school, refusing to show any responsibility.)

xpost lol i have those moments.

i don't understand the distinction between public institution and government agency

there is a lot of overlap. it's kind of like squares and rectangles. a government agency is a public institution; a public institution is not necessarily a government agency. for example, a public university is a public institution, but not a government agency.

schools or museums vs the tax office or national park admin

xp

idgi. what’s the difference?

last chance to ask again!

Forgot all about this, but apparently I took my own advice and waited to answer. As it turns out my answer today is the same as it would have been then.

is this just like “stuff we think is cool” vs “stuff we think is uncool”? each campus of the university of california has it’s own police force. like, real police, not security guards. our current chief was chief of lapd before this job. so “university is not a public agency but police is” doesn’t make sense to me

its* :(((

My answer actually needs a caveat. I voted self-employed and no employees, but I am actually half of a two-person equal partnership LLC. More or less the same thing, but it isn’t just me running it.

on another note, i think many people would identify large museums (like, say, the met) as public institutions. but those are actually mostly private corporations with ostensibly not-for-profit missions

if you work at a library, click whichever of "public institution" or "government agency" you feel better represents your personal vibes

xp there are private schools too, I was aiming only for concision

private libraries too

so don't click "public institution" if you work at Prager University

"vibes" is a fair answer. fwiw i picked "public institution" and not "government agency", and i definitely use the phrase "public institution" when talking about my job in conversation (generally to explain why schools shouldn't be run like tech startups)

couldn't really tell you why though

again, I work for a nonprofit with more than 50 employees, no poll option.

and i definitely use the phrase "public institution" when talking about my job in conversation (generally to explain why schools shouldn't be run like tech startups)

couldn't really tell you why though

― the late great, Monday, January 2, 2023 10:44 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah -- I was thinking of public schools/education with that poll option.

again, I work for a nonprofit with more than 50 employees, no poll option.

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, January 2, 2023 11:17 AM (one hour ago)

oops! I am sorry for making a flawed poll. Go with "public institution" -- as in, nonprofits are "public charities" -- and 50+ employees is kinda institution-like? As in you probably have a HR department as opposed to ... a person that does HR stuff along with other stuff.

In March 2021 I voted self employed, no employees; today it would be small business. Fortunately due to server restarts over 21 months I can make both votes count.

I can't remember if I actually voted, but I work for a fairly large corporation that's not public (ie you cannot buy stock).

I keep envisioning this thread with each of us handcuffed to a desk and sarahell slamming her hands on the table and yelling "WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?"

where is the option for "I have two jobs and neither is categorized as side hustle" (one brings me professional satisfaction and the assurance that I am not wasting my life and the other pays the bills while I am not working at Job 1) ?

i wonder if i will ever work for one business/company/entity again? we'll see. would be nice to have benefits of the useful kind (PTO, insurance, etc)

An insurance and benefits poll would be pretty interesting too. Can't remember if ILX has ever done one.

lord. I think I pay like three times what I paid 18 years ago for insurance for me, but now it comes with like a 2500 dollar deductible and only covers 75%, whereas when I started it was a $100 deductible plan that covered 100%.

can only imagine what the families pay.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

damn! a lot of people voted in this!