So I’m working in a company since the beginning for 2020. The norm here is you get a 1 year contract and then another year contract, after that it becomes an unlimited contract. If you want more money you gotta talk to your boss about it at the end for the year to get more money starting with the new year. So, last year I got an offer from a company I have worked in before because one of their important employees switches to another position. They offered me $500 more on the spot without me even starting to negotiate, so I could’ve probably even raised that. My salary now is a little bit below average for what I do and my skills (I work in IT).
The new company would’ve been fewer hours, but I later learned that this was actually not the case because I would be employed by the sub-company, which doesn’t have that benefit. I didn’t feel well about that because the boss knew that and simply hid that information from me, and I thought they do less hours so will I when I work there. He even admitted to have not said that on purpose. It would’ve still been a great offer and it was pretty needless to hide that.
So I talked to my boss and told him I have an offer and that I would like to have more money when I get my unlimited time contract extension. And he said, he knows I’m worth it and could easily get that on the market and that he agrees I should get it. He would prepare this at the end of the year and we would talk about the exact sum at the beginning of january. And since I dont like change, I wanted to follow this opportunity.
Well today I learned he didn’t prepare ANYTHING and even said we have to define goals to see if I’m worth it and he meant for 2023. Maybe it SOUNDED confusing because it was the end of 2021 when he said NEXT YEAR, but it was obvious he meant he would prepare it at the end of 2022. Which doesn’t make ANY sense. So I won’t see more money this year, which upsets me so much. He even got angry I talked about the topic and degraded my employee conduct score.
I answered that he never had any issue with my work, except that one time I stayed too long to fix the NOT WORKING TELEPHONE SYSTEM ON A MONDAY NIGHT. I literally got warned for staying longer. like we wouldnt need telephones on tuesday morning or what.