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  1. Hello everyone and thanks for your input. I am seeking God on this and I sense the Lord doesn't want me there forever, but I just need the green light for when it's time to go. I prayed for confirmation and I've gotten both directions of advice so I'm going to wait until it's crystal clear. Being in my forties I would like the option of being able to live on my own if I could. I lived in the Midwest for two years. The rent out there is so cheap that it is much easier to make ends meet, but I had no family and was lonely so I gladly took the opportunity, knowing how expensive things were, to return to southern California. Here, twelve an hr is OK under the circumstances I'm in, but it will not provide my own apartment. What matters most, like what was said is that I'll doing God's will. I'm just going to pray it through and not be in a rush to leave without clearer signs.
  2. I'm sorry that is the impression I left. When I posted I was frustrated and trying to sort out out as well as get advice. Sometimes seeking advice when writing, perhaps I worded something in a way that made me sound ungrateful and that wasn't my intent. As I stated in my original post, I'm very grateful to have a job. Just trying to figure some things out, one of them is if I have reached the ceiling and there is no financial growth for me. Right now it's not urgent, but there will come a time where a higher salary will be more of a need. That is the crossroad I'm at.
  3. I'm thankful I have a but I'm wondering if he's stingy. If he is, I feel my hard work may never properly pay off. I emailed my Supervisor after I left last night asking if I could possibly make fifty cents more. I won't keep pushing it, but I feel pretty disgusted. It's not about the money, it's about sensing the boss may just be a man of lip service that may just not want to give raises even if things were going better.
  4. Hi, I work for a Christian boss and i get along with most everyone at my office. I started out at 12.00 an hour. My job is not easy, it takes months of training to learn how to do what I do. It is merchant processing. I do a lot of things from training agents, to handling customer service calls, to looking up information on accounts. I am very busy, and from what I see, busier than some other people at times. I have never gotten a raise at all. My three month review I got no raise. I am told constantly that I am doing a "great job." About a month ago I approached my supervisor about a raise. She told me she was working on it and it was well deserved. She had me up my training, watch more training videos, study the contracts of the company, which I did. While I have been there I have heard the wind of disgruntled employees that have been there awhile, complaining and inferring that the CEO is "cheap" and states he "can't afford to give anyone a raise" then goes on a cruise. I realize that people go into business to make money. I know the girl they recently hired that works next to me got a raise after about three months. Around the first week of January, the CEO pulled the entire staff into a meeting and announced that he was very upset at some of the laziness he was observing (mind you i was not included in this as I work very hard and there are a few chatty people that do not pull their weight the way they should sometimes. I am constantly working and taking calls. Anyways the boss in the meeting stated anyone on the internet from now on (unless its for companyh purposes) would be fired. I do not blame him one bit, but he also announced that he had to pull thirty thousand dollars of his familys money into the company to keep it afloat. The numbers were so bad that he began asking staff members to see if we could get some accounts signed up, hoping we had some friends or aquaintances. He looked very upset, close to tears. I felt moved to compassion seeing the anxiety and pain in his eyes as he addressed the staff. later on, one of the employees quietly told me "he pulls this every year" and the Jan sales are double what they were last year. My supervisor told me privately that she feels hurt that she cant get me a raise and knows I deserve one and I should have gotten one a long time ago. She also privately told me that no ones salary has changed for three years. (I know that is a lie because my coworker got a raise several months ago when they switched her over to salary). She had tears in her eyes when she told me this and told me that I sound great on the phone, I am doing a great job, and she wouldn't want anyone else working for her doing what I do than me. She also said that as soon as something changes she will let me know. I don't know if my boss is stingy or really broke and scared, but I am really disssapointed. I don't need the money, it's just the principal of the thing, not getting any salary increase at all. I don't need the money because I am blessed enough at 44 to be living at home and paying only 100 dollars a month. I am grateful I have a job, but I am struggling with whether I should buy the bosses story about things being tight, or if he is just miserly and doesn't want to compensate people properly. He owns several properties, cars, and seems to take frequent vacations. Which is his choice, but his lifestyle seems to indicate he is not so broke after all. I am beginning to see my boss in a different light. I'm torn between feeling resentment that all my hard work is not being financially rewarded, and feeling a little sorry that my boss is supposedly struggling. i do not know if he is truly struggling that much or if he is a bit of a drama king. Would you look for another job, or hang in there?
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