Feel totally cheated :(

Firefox1975

To be fair , £800 a year pay rise is pretty good.

Although, i appreciate the issue isn't the annual rise, it is the broken promise.

What do you actually do? Whenever anyone asks me about how to obtain a payrise I usually advise putting a proposal together on how "they" as individuals will save the company "x" pounds over the next 6 months. and then present this to management on the understanding that if targets are hit then a payrise will follow. The company doesn;t care "how" its money is eventually spent, whether its on wages, pencils or council tax, so for any saving for the company with direct involvement from an employee then a "percentage" of this (not ALL of it!) can be added onto a salary. (In your proposal the company must always be infront with the split of any savings aswell!Thats common sense and respect for your employer, afterall, you work for them so your efforts must be seen to improve the companies financial position aswell as your own financial position)

Granted - the above cannot work for everyone as you may not have access to any information that you could utilise, however, with your argument of being there so long I would imagine that you have sufficient knowledge of operations to implement "something".

So, what do you do? (it;s Friday and i;m feeling generous - i might have a few ideas for you. :-) )

coinxoperated

Hi Firefox1975,

I'm not arguing with an £800 pay rise, but when it was supposed to be significantly more, it is very disappointing.

Unfortunately I can't state what I do as its such confidential work. But your suggesting of 'saving the company money' isn't something I can really do. To make it super simple, there are no costs I can cut...

To make life simple, lets say I do Admin. (that covers all work roles, right?)
But a specialised Admin that very few people in the country have experience of doing

coinxoperated

I'm technically changing from an area of the company I detest to a area of the company I really enjoy, so I don't want to cut my nose off to spite my face and p!ss all the big bossess off. I'll take the new job regardless as I will get much better job satisfaction, I was just gutted (and still am!) about the muck up with pay. I guess its more than I'm on now, so I'll just lump it and see how it goes! I'm in a DRO at the moment, so no point in looking elsewhere!

paddyrg

I suspect your boss got confused between what you receive and what it costs to have you on payroll once all the overheads are factored in. You probably cost your boss £20k from their budget, but the £16.5k figure is what's left after they cover offices, PC, heating, etc - could be the source of an honest mistake

Sambucus_Nigra

What was the role advertised at? I suspect they know you want to work in that area and so they have cut their costs to give you a tiny payrise rather than it being the wage they were planning to pay when the vacancy was identified.

coinxoperated

Paddyrg, I suspect the same.

Horrible mix up, but I don't think it was entirely in his hands.

Sambucus, it was advertised at £16,000 to £20,000 but they always intended on paying a 'new starter' only £16,000 regardless of experience, so technically I've started £800 more than what they tried to put me on.

My boss and I thought I would be entitled to the 20k as I have 3 years experience of the job already, but it would seem not! As apparently, even though I've been doing it for 3 years, as my job title has been different, I get the minimum amount of benefit for being loyal to them.

My new boss is fabulous, really, I've had a lot of bosses and he is most definately someone I want to work under. He's just a nice guy who I want to work hard for. He also really boosts my confidence (old boss completely bullied me and made me feel like I was worth nothing and I was incredibly lucky for him to take pity on me and give me a job!) and by the way the new boss has boosted my confidence its let me have the courage to move into working for him full time and start an NVQ.

My new boss really isn't the issue, its just a big mix up that annoyed me more than anything.

I'll ride it out, I don't think I want to start somewhere brand new for the same wage and less holidays (I get an extra 2 days per annum due to service).

There really isn't much I can do, and what I can do isn't what I want to do. It is my bosses fault for telling me the wage I was supposed to be getting, but I shouldn't of gotten excited without it in writing!