SarahBeth
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So I had my yearly review and am getting my yearly raise. Yay! For a part timer, 50 cents an hour is really good. However, the company has raised the starting wage so after three years with the company, I'm only making 30 cents more an hour than new hires. Every year they tell me how I am a great candidate for department head and then management.
However, I don't have the availability to work full time because we have an intellectually disabled adult child and being there for her is much more important. Also, my son is going to start a family soon and I'll be helping a lot. His wife is graduating from grad school in May and he is starting a new job that will be great for his career in a couple of months.
And on to the ugly. My husband has been with a new company for 2 1/2 years now and no raise at all. The thing is, it's a group from his previous company that formed a new one because the company they were with dropped the division and then contracted with them. So this is the same group of people he's worked with for over 10 years. New CFO has a different vision and is, for lack of a better term, being cheap. They just ordered his new vehicle which we call the ice cream truck.
My husband really does deserve better. He's lost out on two promotions with the past company because they decided to not open one after all (this was a management position which would have been really good for his career) and the second, because they decided to promote in a division out of the country because it was cheaper.
I think that if something doesn't happen in the next 6 months for him, it is time to look for something new.
However, I don't have the availability to work full time because we have an intellectually disabled adult child and being there for her is much more important. Also, my son is going to start a family soon and I'll be helping a lot. His wife is graduating from grad school in May and he is starting a new job that will be great for his career in a couple of months.
And on to the ugly. My husband has been with a new company for 2 1/2 years now and no raise at all. The thing is, it's a group from his previous company that formed a new one because the company they were with dropped the division and then contracted with them. So this is the same group of people he's worked with for over 10 years. New CFO has a different vision and is, for lack of a better term, being cheap. They just ordered his new vehicle which we call the ice cream truck.
My husband really does deserve better. He's lost out on two promotions with the past company because they decided to not open one after all (this was a management position which would have been really good for his career) and the second, because they decided to promote in a division out of the country because it was cheaper.
I think that if something doesn't happen in the next 6 months for him, it is time to look for something new.