I once applied somewhere and they said they couldn’t give the full wage I was asking for because then I would earn more than the people that were already working there and that is against company policy.
So they were already paying their employees below recommended wage and wanted me to do the same.
Anyway, I let them wait on me for like 10 weeks before I told them I found an other job that did pay me what I wanted.
I took a job once for slightly less than I wanted because the job was really interesting to me. The agreement I got in writing though was that after 6 months, they would bring me up to where I wanted to be.
6 months arrives and they tell me they can’t pay me more because then it would put me above people I worked alongside with that had been there longer. I was told this despite it being a signed deal, so I essentially got bait-and-switched.
I left for another job a little while after that.
That job laid me off after 6 months with a handful of other people. I woke up to a locked computer. To make matters worse, a friend that still works there told me they offered absolutely nothing for the holidays due to finances (they didn’t even send out gifts like they usually do). 🤦
Finally got back on my feet with something stable that pays really well. I even received an 8% bonus for the holidays.
If you had it signed on paper, couldn’t you have sued them easily? Like, I get that you might not want to, but it seems a really risky move by the company
I once applied somewhere and they said they couldn’t give the full wage I was asking for because then I would earn more than the people that were already working there and that is against company policy.
So they were already paying their employees below recommended wage and wanted me to do the same.
Anyway, I let them wait on me for like 10 weeks before I told them I found an other job that did pay me what I wanted.
I took a job once for slightly less than I wanted because the job was really interesting to me. The agreement I got in writing though was that after 6 months, they would bring me up to where I wanted to be.
6 months arrives and they tell me they can’t pay me more because then it would put me above people I worked alongside with that had been there longer. I was told this despite it being a signed deal, so I essentially got bait-and-switched.
I left for another job a little while after that.
That job laid me off after 6 months with a handful of other people. I woke up to a locked computer. To make matters worse, a friend that still works there told me they offered absolutely nothing for the holidays due to finances (they didn’t even send out gifts like they usually do). 🤦
Finally got back on my feet with something stable that pays really well. I even received an 8% bonus for the holidays.
If you had it signed on paper, couldn’t you have sued them easily? Like, I get that you might not want to, but it seems a really risky move by the company
I considered it but at the time it felt like more time and effort than what it was worth.