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Originally Posted by JinnKai
If your company doesn't at least match inflation and your distance from minimum wage (unlike Cyn, I think it is important) you need to find a job that shows their appreciation for your culinary skills with $$$.
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While I still do catering on the weekends, I am no longer in the food industry. This is an entirely different field of work and I couldn't be happier to get out of that one, but that's a whole 'nother topic.
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
How much is YOUR time worth? After all, you're burning hours of your life that you're not ever getting back. Are you being remunerated for them?
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You hit the nail on the head with where my frustration is coming from. I'm working on two majors and a minor at college and am trying to pump in as much extracurricular activity at the university as I can and any time I spend at work is an hour I could be spending accomplishing something with more meaning in my life. However, due to financial constraints in my life, I don't any other option but to continue to work. This job is tenfolds better than what I've had previously, but the fact is I AM giving them the best years of my life and I feel it's worth more than $9.50
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Originally Posted by amonkie
My question - why did they get promoted and not you? What are they doing that you're not, that even with tenure you've not gotten raises.
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Well, I was never formally offered a promotion. I had been working at job-sites and doing everything I would normally do if I had been given that position. To this day, I am probably more knowledgeable about the new guys' who got promoted over me job than they are. They do much more stressful work than what I'm doing right now, I certainly would not want to do their type of work when school kicks back in in the fall. The tenure thing is really frustrating, though. I'm better at their job, work harder, and have been there longer, yet they make more money than me.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
So wait, you make it sounds like you were given the opportunity to be promoted to a position of increased responsibility and thus increased pay, and turned it down ("I simply don't want...").
If that's the case, I'm afraid you've got no good case for getting a raise in your current position.
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Once again, I wasn't FORMALLY offered the job, but if I had expressed interest, there's absolutely no doubt I'd be doing that type of work right now. It's not a good idea for me to get caught up with that type of work when I should be focusing on schoolwork. I certainly do not think that disqualifies me for receiving a pay raise at my current position.