Did I Get Fired for Asking for a Raise After Manager Changed My Schedule?
Scenario:
Manager decided to change my daytime hours to 3p-11p
Told manager this would impact time with long-term partner
Conversation:
- Manager: Would you quit if hours changed to evenings?
- Me: No, but would need more pay to work those hours (no specific amount)
- Manager: Will discuss with boss
Outcome:
- Called into boss’ office and terminated without reason
- No negotiation or acknowledgement of my long tenure
- Given severance pay and escorted out of building
Reflection:
No regrets asking for raise, underestimated management’s response
#Fired After Asking for Raise #Manager Termination #Salary Negotiation Backfire
They were looking for a reason to fire you. No other explanation makes any sense.
Manager and Boss were in on it to fire you.
They were like “let’s fire this piece of shit”
Well at least they had the grace to fire you now you file unemployment against them.
Sounds like the manager was hoping you would quit if they changed your hours, and when you said you’d be willing to work those hours (for slightly more pay), they cut their losses.
It’s stuff like that which makes me wish for a pause button so I could stop time and pull an Adam Sandler and slap the shit outa people.
And now they are gonna pay someone else 10x more in training costs than what it too to properly compensate you.
Same here. Was told I wasn’t proactive enough, so I laid out exactly how proactive I was and that we could talk about a pay inscrease if they wanted me to do more. Was fired the following Monday on the spot.
I’m betting if you quit, your contract would have said no severance which is why they tried that first.
Remember if they reach out to charge them 3 to 4x yoir pay rate and bill per hour or in a set block of hours even if it’s 5 minutes.
Get it in writing and they pay upfront.
There is a reason we need strong workers protections. Companies are ran with little oversight. So they can fire people for little to no reason. And they can pay you as little as they want as long as it is over minimum wage. We need protections that will prevent companies from firing people for BS reasons. They need to have a reason and evidence to back up that reason before they can fire someone. And they should be required to hire people at a livable wage for that area. Where that is that employee’s only job. And they make enough money to pay all their bills with the money from that one job with roughly 20% of their paycheck left over for other things like entertainment and bills. And the company would be required to raise the wages every year to keep up with inflation.
They were looking to make you quit and failed. This is the best outcome, now you get unemployment rather than nothing.
They were hoping they could get you to quit.
They tried to make you quit, how much you wanna bet the manager or the Boss’s nephew is already in line to take your place ? xD
Yea that’s shit. My company is far from perfect but if you work a night shift you get a 10% bump. Not something you have to ask for, not something you have to earn, just a straight up shift differential. Want people to work a shittier shift and sacrifice a social life? Give them a reason to.