Just saw this article in Business Insider and thought I'd share it. Theres a lot of good thoughts in here (some might need to be converted for your particular situation but the principles translate pretty well. #whadayathink ? #raise #promotion #SelfAdvocacy

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-a-raise-expert-tips2019-4?utm_content=buffer79dd6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=BI-linkedin

I was at my last job for a year and a half. I was promoted to night shift supervisor after only 8 months. My pay increased up to $5 an hour in just 8 months. The guy that quit the position that I was promoted to came back after a little over 6 months of being gone. Unfortunately for me, the day shift supervisor (my boss technically) and this guy are best friends. I came back into work one day and seen him walking around like a lost puppy. Wearing a supervisor shirt. After I clocked into work I was pulled into the office and was demoted and my pay was dropped. The day shift supervisor hired his best friend to take back the night shift supervisor position. He had quit his job again because he didn’t like all the hard work from his other job. So he asked his friend (my boss) if he could come back and have his old position. And he gave it to him. He didn’t earn it. Every person on my shift was trained and taught by me. No one ever got hurt. No equipment ever got damaged. I worked with them all night instead of sitting on my ass and watching them work like I could have. I cared for my job and the guys on my shift. And in one day I had it all stripped away from me. His friend was basically handed a fully loaded Cadillac. He didn’t have to train them or teach them anything. It was a slap in the face to me. It was upsetting to walk out that office and have to hand over everything I worked so hard for to a man that did over $8,000 worth of damage in one night the last time he was there. So I realized that I wouldn’t be given the chance to be supervisor in that dept for a very long time. Not much room to move up unless you have a college degree. So after that day, I came in the next and cleaned out my work locker and handed over the key to the office. I couldn’t seem to want to work for someone like that. Plus it would have been very hard to come in and take orders from someone that was “given” the position I worked so hard for. So now I’m looking for a job. Again.

Goshen is not a well organised company that has low salary scale but could be a stepping stone pending on one's level.

I used to work at a UPS call center and the best thing is I remember my hourly rate steadily increasing with my experience. I have never had a job where you didn’t have to scrap and beg for every little raise. My work moved quickly and the pay just got better with time. Had to move though or would’ve stayed.

How does a company decide who they will promote and who they will not?

I started a retail job a few months ago and I was really enjoying it for the first couple of weeks. Then one day out of the blue my manager text all of us who worked at the store in a group text and said that she had been fired. The owner of the store took the store over and decided she was going to hire a manager and I said immediately up front I didn't feel I had enough experience to take the position she said she respected that. So then we had a manager who quit after one day because she changed her mind about wanting to be a manager. Then a couple weeks later my boss started training in a new one and apparently said something about the rules that the girl didn't like so she walked off the job. That gave me just enough time to feel like I had my wings and I was ready to fly so I accepted the position!!! I really feel like the timing of everything was perfect for me and I love my new position as the manager of our store. I'm earning a lot more per hour than I was as a salesperson and really enjoying interacting with the other employees and the customers. Everybody keep your head up because God does have a plan.

When I worked at the same company as my husband (now ex-husband). We had moved to another town because he had gotten promoted to store manager and they transferred me to the same store. Since we were married and he was the boss then we had decided that if I had any questions or needed help with something that I would go to the Assistant Manager and she would take care of it. That wasn’t a problem at all, it worked out great. Move along a few years and the corporate guys came for a visit. They wanted to talk to me, which was kinda unusual. I went in the office and sat down and they start telling me about a different store that has a husband and wife that work together and one is the manager. Long story short, they ended up being crooked and stealing stuff so they had decided that from now on that the manager of a store couldn’t have their immediate family work under them. I explained that I had always gone to the Assistant Manager for all my questions and or problems I had. They then proceeded to tell me since this was the only other store where spouses worked under the other that they were going to let me go. They would pay me my 2 weeks vacation and my personal and sick days and they wouldn’t fight my unemployment if I filed, which of course I did. I got to thinking that there should be a grandfather clause, and I should be under that clause because this new rule started 5 years after I started working there. So now that my husband and I are divorced and I have found out other things about him and things he’s done to deliberately try to get me into trouble. Was it really corporates idea to let me go or had my husband beydoing something to make me look bad and I just didn’t know it? He got fired from that same company just 8 months after they let me go and he told me a different story than I heard from another manager at the first store we worked at together. I’m not really sure what really happened with me being let go, but I feel if the story they told me was true then I should have been protected underneath the grandfather clause. Don’t you?

I tried to post this a few minutes ago so if this is a repeat I apologize.

Long story short I've been at my current job for almost three years, my current position as a supervisor for two and I have let every person I know know that I want to move up and it seems like I've either been forgotten or just passed over. I go from store to store and help out clean up stores, clean up their personnel, customers, everything else and I'm good I feel and recently I've been stuck on third for the past 3 months no 4 months to do just sat. But there is no advancement in my current store.

My question or advice I need is should I ask my GM yet again what I need to work on or why I'm not getting anywhere or let my new territory manager know i want to move up? Or should i just try another company all together? Last time I talked to my current TM it was that the store needed to be staffed before i could move but then I get put on 3rd.

I need advice or just someone to listen please. I've been at my current company going on three years come July and I've been in my current position for two years. I believe I am good at what I do and that I am a good employee. My only thing is that the past two years I've gotten in total a $0.24 raise and people have moved up past me and I feel like I've been forgotten or overlooked. I've also moved from store to store to store to help out with their stopping and getting it straightened out what have you and have moved each time about 6 to 8 months. I don't mind if all I'm going to do is bounce from store to store and help out, what I do mind is being told if I do certain things that'll give me a chance to move up and then nothing happens.

After all that being said my advice in question is should I reach out to the new territory manager that's taking over and tell him or her that I want to move up, should I ask my GM what I'm doing wrong or I need to improve? Or should I just go somewhere else completely?

I've been stuck on third shift for the past 3 Note 4 months and it's gotten to where I have to take medication to function now and I shouldn't have to do that. I'm just lost and need advice.

I just got a great job at grind burger and they really give you a fair opportunity to advance quickly