Is having a trial run where you do the work before you get the actual raise normal?
My husband has been working at this company for four years this coming month. When he started he got put in the warehouse doing random work. In the four years he went from $12/hr to his current salary of $70k.
Not long after he started he got out of the warehouse and into the office and for the first 2 years he got a few dollars raise during the yearly reviews and a few in between. Fb ‘ Then the company merged with a larger company. At that point he got promoted and was promised to be put on salary for 50k after a few weeks proving he could handle the work. After a few months he got the raise. Not to long after he got promoted again to a Director position and was offered 70k. A few months go by of him doing the work and he gets a raise again.
Well now they offered him a VP position and a 6 figure salary. His boss told him if he could run 3 departments he would get the raise. He mentioned it would probably take him three months. My husband told him it would only take him a month to get it all in order if he had full reign over the departments.
He’s been working late pretty much everyday for a month but he finally got them to run smoothly. He went in to talk to him yesterday about the raise and he gave him so many excuses as to why he can’t give him the raise yet one of them being that he (COO) can’t get take this raise request to the CEO because he’s talked up some other guys for raises and they have failed making him look bad. My husband asked him if his work isn’t up to par with the expectations of the position and his boss told him his work was great and better than anyone who has tried to fix the departments.
As far as we can tell these are his options:
He can keep doing the work and wait for the raise to come eventually. He was told a few months.
Reject the promotion and stay at his current position and salary.
Apply for a different company and see what offers he gets.
TL;DR. Husbands boss has a history of making him do months of work before he gives him raises. My husband was told he had to run 3 departments before he got his raise for his most recent promotion. He got the job done and know his boss isn’t ready to run it trough his CEO. (Shouldn’t he have the authority on his own as COO?).
What should my husbands next step be?
Submitted March 29, 2019 at 09:18AM by allday_EarlGrey https://ift.tt/2V4Wtls
