#WorkLife #CareerAdvice #RaiseDenied
Hey there, fellow professionals! 👋 Have you ever been in a situation where you were denied a pre-approved raise without any clear reason? 🤔 Let’s discuss a recent scenario shared by one of our community members:
🔸 Completed goals ahead of time
🔸 Took on additional responsibilities
🔸 Increased profit for the company
🔸 Conducted extensive audits on previous work
Despite these accomplishments, the boss denied the raise, citing lack of leadership qualities. 🤷♀️ What could be the reason behind this sudden change in behavior?
Let’s brainstorm together and share our thoughts on what might have led to this decision. Any similar experiences or advice to share with our community member? Let’s support each other and provide valuable insights! 💡
As a possible solution, perhaps having a transparent conversation with the boss to understand their perspective and discuss opportunities for growth and improvement could be beneficial. Let’s empower each other with our collective knowledge and experience! 💪 #SupportEachOther #ProfessionalGrowth
It’s time for adjusting your engagement accordingly!
Money. He’s greedy.
Pull back and do exactly what the contract covers and not a single damned thing more. Act your wage!
You want a logical reason? The raise would come out of his budget, or his boss’s, and they want to spend as little money as possible. It has nothing to do with your work, a raise comes out of company profits in the best case scenario, and he probably figures if you leave, he’ll hire someone at the original rate. Or even try to get someone at a lower price.
So start looking for a job that pays you what you are worth.
How can a temp contractor be a leader in a 12 month assignment?
Based off the sudden composure change of your boss, the email highlighting how you’ve been carrying the team on your back (with his boss copied) riled up his horses. He’s now resentful of you.
Ask to be contracted elsewhere. This behavior likely won’t change.
I can’t tell if you discussed requesting the raise with him first, but that would be my assumption. You were perfectly in your right to do what you did, but he’s upset you didn’t go through him first as an act of deference to his position.
EDIT to add: which is bullshit.
Create your own contracting company and present your employers with a new contract through them and collect all the $$$!
Probably not a reality, but my husband did just that during the Y2K transition at a corporate bank job. They got along well with him and just transferred his contract over no questions asked.
If severe enough call those “inconsistencies” into a whistleblower hotline.
Sounds like, as a contractor, you need to find a new contract and terminate this one, since your responsibilities for the contract are complete.
Are you a 1099 contractor? If you are, it seems you could set your own fees as you are not an employee. Not sure how that would work in your field, but worth checking into.
Stop doing extra work. They don’t reward it so stop.
What is the name of the company??
You’re trying to apply logic. Unfortunately the only logic here is bosses want to save money. Not the way you saved them money, of course, but by keeping pay low so all you saved them looks better for them.
This is how companies are screwed up. Stop doing extra, going the extra mile, and just earn what they are willing to pay. They’re always happy to let people do extra work but rarely willing to compensate.
Go to the client and tell them that you can no longer work there because of issues with the contractor. The contractor works for the client, and if you are as valuable to them as you believe, they will make sure that you stay on board.
Its because you are, apparently, a woman. Sexism in the tech fields is rampant.,
Do bare minimum and find job asap. The moment you sign your onboarding paperwork, you send the text informing your instant resignation. Give them nothing more.
Whatever his reasoning, yours is the same.
You went above and beyond, you finished early, you proved yourself more competent and harder working than this job requires. You have clearly outgrown this gig and they don’t appreciate you with cash.
Go look for another gig right away, make sure your CV reflects how well you overperformed in this one, get the 40% raise you deserve, and never look back.
Find another job, put in your notice, and tell them you are leading yourself to financial security. DO NOT except more money to stay. They would just be letting you have the money you have already earned and no company forgets someone holding a gun to their head.
Time to put them in their place and find somewhere else to work.
I worked for a few large IT Contract companies a couple of decades ago. The main lessons I learned there were, 1) you do exactly what you’re asked to do, 2) you don’t get raises, and 3) your voice doesn’t mean anything.
This may sound harsh, but that’s the job you sign up for as a contractor. I, however, was young and eager to learn. So, I did a ton of extra work that I wasn’t expected to do and I wasn’t paid to do. I did this knowingly because I was using the customer environment to educate myself for better jobs. That is literally the only reason to go above and beyond… to selfishly help yourself.
I’ve “pulled back” a lot this year because of 2% raise, even though we had company record setting profits!
It has gotten to the point that people have noticed that certain things aren’t getting done or happening like they used to. Things that I would do on my free time or extra tasks that weren’t done by others.
It’s to the point where other techs are starting to have trouble doing their jobs because other people aren’t keeping up with their jobs, which o did the extra work, that was out of my scope of work.
It was brought up a few times and I just keep replying that it isn’t my job and I don’t get paid for that.
Let them struggle and hire more people to all of that work.
I think your husband is a wise man.
Raises sometimes come out of a shared pool for a whole department, and he may have planned to give them to other folks. Work your wage. Maybe even work under your wage to make up for the extra effort they don’t want to pay for.