Company forces employees to re-apply for their jobs at an $8k salary cut: 'I've been there 6 years. Built entire systems, trained new staff, covered shifts constantly'

Honesty is always the best policy, in most every occasion. People value transparency because if you know exactly what is going on, you're less likely to be upset about it. Nobody likes feeling duped. It makes us feel like we've been taken advantage of because someone thinks they know better than we do. It's an insult to our intelligence and our self-respect. But if you leave everything out in the open, then you can never truly go wrong, especially in the workplace.

But this doesn't always happen. Sometimes companies will try to get the better of you without you knowing it. This is why it's vital to be educated in all the ways someone can try to take advantage of your work. You have to be able to smell a rat when one appears. That's why online communities can be helpful. One employee learned that after their company tried to pull some tricky business on them. They were offended at the prospect of being asked to reapply, and imagined that there might be something deeper at play here.

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Applying for jobs is rough business. But what about applying to a job that you already have? That's downright inhuman. But that's what one company asked their employees to do so that they could ultimately give them a pay cut. But they weren't going to take it in stride. Scroll on to find out what happened.
My employer is making us reapply for our own jobs at a lower pay grade...

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