**Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved my job responsibilities and daily tasks, but like many other employees at Trek, I was extremely underpaid.**
Trek is very understaffed due to high turnover rates and constant layoffs. Losing a person meant no replacement hired, and that person's work was split up and distributed to the other people in the department.
Salaried employees are supposed to work 40 hours a week, M- F from (approx.) 8 am to 5 pm, and are not eligible for overtime pay, All deadlines are to be met and required work needs to be completed on time each week - even as your workload continued to grow larger and larger. That meant having to work Many extra hours every week, usually 8 am to 10 pm Monday through Thursday, with a few small breaks during the day, and sometimes having to work past 5 pm on Fridays and needing to do a few hours of work on the weekends as well. It was impossible to not fall behind each week if you didn't work extra-extra long days. In the end, salaried at $60k/year for 40 hour weeks broke down to more like $19/hour. Trek does not know how to respectfully treat, compensate, or show any real appreciation to their employees!
