Hey, so 7 new high school kids started interning at my workplace. During the day on of my coworkers overheard them say how much they make an hour.
Me and my other coworkers started around the same time over 19 months ago as interns while in college. We have recently graduated with the same degree and have the same experience. We work in the IT field btw.
The new guys make $11 dollars an hour. When we started we made 9$ an hour and got a dollar raise a year later (Now making 10$). The new guys have no experience and for most its their first job. They are under age and can not do half the things we can do. We have to train them, supervise them, train the other 2 college interns who started 2 months ago as well.
Basically these guys were hired and paid by another department's program, so our department has nothing to do with their pay, however, its the same job, except they actually know nothing and cant do a lot of what has to be done. Its actually our contract that discussing pay can be cause for termination.
The IT department always says, "not in the budget" when it comes to stuff like this. I haven't sat down with the boss yet, but I'm pretty sure they're gonna say no to a raise. Basically, if I leave, two other coworkers will leave, then they will be screwed because no one will train the new people except full time employees who have other responsibilities to take care of.
Aside from that, I really enjoy working there and would accept a full time position if they offered, but the financial comp just isnt fair right now. I'm not going to babysit kids who make more than I do, with no degree or experience. How do I go about asking for better pay, or what should I do?
Submitted June 12, 2019 at 06:37PM by novamatrix http://bit.ly/2wSvfUt
