Simple and straightforward advice, very good! If you feel like this in your company, consider leaving ASAP. You ask your boss whats up and your boss says Um, what?. Did you bring in person C as a way to give person B a chance? I had copies of my proof of a serious work situation at home as well as in my file cabinet at work. I really hope the OP eventually sends in an update to this story! Maybe she just thought we were all mind readers? What major business goals have you helped the company achieve? They think that they are being discreet, and they are, in that they arent blabbing it around all over the place. I started working at my current company as a Software Engineer about 2 years ago. But when they don't give you any task, it means they don't see the value in what you do anymore, and this is a really bad sign for your job security. May be this might sound a bit unpopular advise - but it seems to me that your real concern is not appraisal. Im in HR at my org, and there have been times where we only learned about something shady a manager was doing because an employee made some innocent comment in passing that made one of us perk our ears up and go investigate; in those cases, weve been super glad that our people spoke up, even inadvertently, so that we were aware of and could put a stop to bad management practices. Keep them coming! Theres no other way around it, and there was certainly no gray area or plausible deniability. Whos to say my new co-worker down the road isnt going to be *my* replacement? This may be just me, but I get the feeling that this boss is not firing based on any particular objective performance measure but is practicing some form of favoritism/discrimination. I did learn some things from him about the background in my line of work of figuring freight charges. You should ask your boss for a closed door meeting, where you can discuss what happened to you on that first day, and explain why it happened. And New Hire got tossed out 2 months after hiring in favor of the old-now-new person. She started off with I dont think the Pharmacy is a good fit for you. Then when I got pregnant as well, they decided not to replace me, but to have the internal person cover both positions. Asking if you're going to get fired seems very confrontational to me, and may be a bad move. The lie was so brazen, what was I supposed to do? This article from CBS is pretty good and provides a lot of insight: sadly, there's a lot of companies out there that have the work but not the money to pay for it. Were in Canada, so both of us were planning for a year there would have been a period of about eight months where both of us were off. And ask for a 3 month one-on-one and see if you get any valuable feedback and then document everything. This is my second job out of college and I left my previous job after a year. Go over the outline you built using the above ideas, explain what more you want to do to grow in your job, and politely state that you are happy you've been growing in your responsibilities and feel you can do more work but would also like increased compensation to reflect your broader job description. Though really, if it is true you should be looking for a job, and if it isnt true you should be looking for a job. Thank you for answering, and congratulations on an excellent negotiation. Unfortunately, I had occasion to also deposit returned narcotics in the cabinet and I reported to TPTB the day I found the cabinet completely empty. He hasnt provided any negative feedback because you are performing your job adequately, but he wants to squeeze you out because he just doesnt like you for some reason. So much this. Problem - you're concerned that your salary is not compartive to the salary you could make elsewhere, so you are missing out on an opportunity to make more money. A 10% raise is nothing to sneeze at, particularly in the current economic climate. you are special, this person is uniquely bad as an employee rather than we are inconsiderate twits who treat staff like garbage. A naive new hire might just shine with specialness rather than intuit that it is a systems issue. It might even come with the request that you onboard and train them, with instructions that seem very familiar to your day job. If it turns out were both wrong and this is unneeded, then great you can call it off if you want to. I think these types of bosses should wear dunce caps on interviews so we can easily identify them and renege immediately. Are you sure you didnt work for my employer? I agree with everyone by saying start that job search! How to extend catalog_product_view.xml for a specific product type. She landed a promotion-level position at another agency within 2 weeks (she was really good and should have gotten the promotion at the original place, but there was a strong bias against internal promotion) and handed in her resignation. Starting the Prompt Design Site: A New Home in our Stack Exchange Neighborhood, Statement from SO: June 5, 2023 Moderator Action. He said, how much time do I have? I was completely flabbergasted. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Your skills are valuable, and there are 1000s of companies out there who know that. I agree. But IA should have lost their job. Its not going to hurt you to look for a job, after all; its that it may make it harder for you to find one. For example, if a major task of your role is to use Java, then you can type in Java. OP, do you have any friends yet at your new job that might tip you off? gap threatens to fire me? Equal Employment. I think you could spin 3 months more easily than 6 months. They would have had to start looking for the candidate about the same time you came on board. Good luck to you, OP. Sorry for the long story I'm just a little concerned if I'm about to lose my job. I asked if this were set hours? As it turned out, it was the wrong thing to do. Person A excelled and Person B was not so great. In the evening I started to get back spasms which are common in my family so I called my boss and told him I can't come in the next day and he said that's OK. A few days go by and I haven't heard anything about when we will be working next so I texted a coworker and he told me I really need to speak to our boss. But for the next month or two, Id just keep yourself braced for Cowardly Boss Impact and see what happens. The new hire (who may or may not have known about these shenanigans) had an uphill battle for acceptance. Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Perks (Special parking, gifts, additional vacation days, etc) - Short term reward when budgetary concerns don't allow for raises. The moral here is that if you know you truly deserve more, you should respectfully ask your boss for an increase rather than staying quiet. When is it 'too soon' to ask for a high raise? :-). Accepted job below advertised salary, use job posting to negotiate a raise. Ten months after that, the old job contacted me and asked if I wanted to come back. You have five years experience and you're not desperate. my boss doesn't know she's about to be fired - Ask a Manager There is a reasonable possibility that the boss needs a dedicated PM but has no plans to terminate OPs employment. Ive received informal feedback from my boss before, but its always been good. Tariq and I had a series of conversations before deciding how he should move forward. Ive actually dated jerks like this. If you're expected to be knowledgeable in the process and managers think you're slacking for whatever reason, communicate your commitment to getting back on track. I cannot believe he was well liked in the company and I have difficulty believing people did not look at him and see the Grim Reaper approaching them. Both employees had their own concept of how things were to be done, but neither were very helpful since they wre in a fast paced hurry to complete the tremendous amount of duties within their shift. The plant was the major employer for an entire town. If you are totally convinced this is what you have to do to survive, then you see no other choices. As if we wouldnt ever look at this board, or have friends who do. Thank you for this. Then I decided to look for something better. should I tell my boss I'm unhappy with my job, being - Ask a Manager I dont know yet since this id a new position they have just created. This past Thursday 2/22/2016 he said not that I dont enjoy working with you , but to be perfectly honest having a clerk instead of a Tech is useless to me just being honest here . Well, sometimes you can like everything but the twit who controls purse strings. @Daniel on the other hand: special priced laptops for students are a thing, so there is some leeway, because it is not a perfect market. I saw crap that lead me to believe maybe this is how work places are. Stack Exchange network consists of 182 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. I worked as a PM before this. And you dont know how long it will take, so youre looking now. Negotiation generally works once or twice not more. However, shortly after that I noticed a job posting on the company website with my job title. Have you helped the company make (or save) a substantial amount of money recently? I keep expecting the new guy to start sitting at the OPs desk, wearing her clothes, eating all of her food in front of her, and having joint access to her email account. It sounds like your employer already recognizes that you do a lot, and they feel they are compensating you for that work by increasing your salary at a rate substantially above simple cost of living raise (typically 3-5% in the US). 10% is pretty good, but 10 % of a not so good starting salary is easier to give than 10 % from a market salary. Also, I would think just what they are pulling with the director would be a good enough answer to the Why are you job searching [after only 3 months]? interview question. Im considering buying a new luxury car, Ive always wanted one but now that I have this job I can really count on being able to afford it. That sounds like a Seinfeld episode trying to sabotage a relationship so that the girlfriend/boyfriend has to break up! An interesting side note to this is that, a year before, I had been out of work and called this company to see if they needed someone with my background. Salary.com stated just about the same thing. They had to come back to ask me to produce a monthly report until their new platform can produce it. I was in a similar situation, where we had several people performing the same job in different locations. The people never went into the office of the senior associate who loved me. I dont mean morally (although id certainly feel weird about it), but I mean it just must be a really awkward situation. Also, its quite common for people to start looking around if they know or suspect that their director is leaving. Now that I have laid out the meat of my situation I need help from an outside perspective. The chances are that someone in management argued against those raises (and lost), and those folks have long memories. he was a nice guy basically. I had no true understanding as to how to count the safe and was respondsible for maintaining eight registers and the needs of those cashiers through out my eight hour shift. After starting a job I found it was advertised at a higher pay grade. Maybe, but its unlikely to be doesnt like your kind if the boss is also the one who hired the OP (unless the OPs kind wasnt apparent at hiring). Review your list right before the meeting to refresh your memory about the topics and questions you want to cover.