Workplace rant

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AuthorLafrisee
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Sooo, 

 

 

 

I've been working at this company for over a year now. The company has 3 venues where the work is pretty much hospitality, and an office where people have... Office job. 

 

I'm part of one of the site teams, so essentially working in hospitality. But, I've now managed to get a new position, I now do one day a week in the office. My manager (site team junior manager) also has the same position where they do one day a week. There is someone else full time at this position as well, so essentially all 7 days are covered.

This new position is, imo, a lot more responsibility than the hospitality position that I have, as I directly handling money, card details, bookings, and also liaising with all of our customers, including important ones that drop a lot money and hire out the space. And quite frankly, all that responsibility makes it more stressful as well, as if you up, you can really put site teams in trouble/lose money.

 

For my hospitality position, I'm getting paid national living wage, which is fair. For my office job, my wage is unchanged. I asked why, got told it was an extension of my role. Icky, but fair. 

My problem is, I know that my manager's wage is the same when she's at that position. And naturally, as a manager, she gets paid more than me. But when we do that office job, we have the exact same title. So she's essentially getting paid more than me for doing the same thing (and I'd argue that I'm better at the job than she is). 

I also know that the person who was in our position before was getting paid more than her as well.

Now, with living costs increasing, living wage has increased as well, all the wage workers got a raise, and I'm happy about that. But it's because the company has to. 

I'm still reaaaaaally iffy about not getting paid more for my office position, though. Right now, a lot of people are getting raises (oddly enough, the gm has even advised some people to not talk about their raises, so lol I think shady things are going on) so idk if I should speak up. 

I definitely want to speak up, but I'm waiting for the best time, which might be when I have really proven myself, and made myself indispensable to the team. 

I'm expecting my manager to leave soon, so they'll prolly turn to me and ask me to do 2 days/week. 

 

We shall see 

 

But low-key ew, this is making me want to leave but I do not have the energy to look for a job

 

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mewmeow 2 years ago
If you feel like you are worth more than what you are being paid have an honest conversation with your manager and your manager's manager and loop finance in on it tbh, that would be the smart way to do it
53346719ca8c64372eec 2 years ago
evelynn 3 hours ago Reply
I know in some areas it's like "illegal" for businesses to tell their employees not to discuss their wages with coworkers. That's how they get away with unfair wages

btw this is not illegal lmao just don't discuss it within earshot of hr it's a myth, discuss all you want
ickyriki 2 years ago
I know in some areas it's like "illegal" for businesses to tell their employees not to discuss their wages with coworkers. That's how they get away with unfair wages
53346719ca8c64372eec 2 years ago
honey, you don't have to leave to look for a new job. I would even argue that you should be looking for a full time job in this role with other companies. put your resume out on indeed or something and start applying without expectations. I bet you you'll find a company that's looking to fill the position you're in and they'll be happy to take somebody they don't have to do extensive training with. plus, it never hurts to brush up your resume. you don't even have to take new offers tbh you can just tell hr that you were offered a higher wage and that you don't want to leave the company because you like it there but you're put in a tight spot because you need (read: deserve) more than the bare minimum living wage.
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