Sorriest excuse you were given for not getting a raise or promotion

[Crazy Dave]

For me it was when I was in the restaurant business and was busting my ass to get into management. I ran a few shifts from time to time, did inventory and scheduling, plus ran one manager's shift for a week in addition my my own "kitchen supervisor" shift doing 18 hours days. After about nine months one manager was leaving the store and I expressed interest in moving up and was told it would be considered. About two days before the current manager quit they hired a guy with absolutely no restaurant experience, a music store manager, and I was told that once again in addition to my "kitchen supervisor" duties I had to show and teach the new manager everything he needed to know as the other managers were too busy and to train him quickly so he'd be ready to take over that shift.
When I asked why I was passed over with my qualifications, dedication and hard work, I was told that since I didn't really have managerial experience as the new guy did in running a music store, that all I had done was just "fill-in" for managers and had never officially held a manager's position, that made him better qualified than me. I quit on the spot and was harassed about it for weeks as to how dare and/or how could I quit without a notice, begging me to come back and get a $0.50 an hour raise. They also told me how screwed they were that not only did they have an inexperienced manager on their hands but now they were also short a qualified kitchen supervisor yet still they never offered the position to me as an option to come back.

[Zoigal]

1. Was once told

that i "really didn't need the money because i was

retired and getting a pension". I also quit the job.

[Crazy Dave]

7. That was a pitiful excuse indeed

And welcome to DU Zoigal :hi:

[mykpart]

16. Something similar happened to me in 1968.

I was told that since I was 19 and living at home, I didn't really need the money. And they wonder why the feminists were so strident.

[LeftyMom]

2. "We're such a small company, we're barely getting by and really can't afford it right now."

Later I found out that this small Mom and Pop operation was actually an order of magnitude larger than the presented themselves as and lying to the employees about the size of the business so they could underpay them.

[ccinamon]

11. I think I'm in that spot right now!

I get an a pre-emptive "You know we would pay you more if we had it." every few months.... However, they have money for a new computers (but not a paid IT staff to maintain the computers), eating out everynight (with several glasses of wine), gambling (the husband takes the cash out of the nightly receipts and puts it in his pocket - very suggestive IMHO), buying new merchandise when they have merch from 5 years ago that hasn't sold and they won't mark down...I'm currently looking for another position as the frustration and untruthfulness is getting on my nerves.

[LeftyMom]

13. Does the wife know he's pulling straight from the night's reciepts?

There's probably nothing good that would come of sharing that little tidbit until you're on your way out the door but still...

[fortyfeetunder]

3. I was working "old technology"

...that was not as "sexy" as state of the art, cutting edge projects.
Whatever....


:shrug:

[fizzgig]

4. my office underwent a huge change in management

a year or two ago. i didn't get a raise after my annual evaluation and the new manager told me it was because the old manager decided i wouldn't get one :wtf:

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Once I got

an absolutely glowing review. Totally fantastic, and the company was doing well.

I was given no raise. Why? Because if I'd been given a raise, I would make more than my supervisor.

So I quit.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. "We just can't pay market rate."

:wtf: This was from a college where I worked for seven years. They were notorious for paying people far below what they were worth but saying they always made it up in benefits. Their benefits were pretty good, but getting paid very far below what I was worth was a real pain. We had annual reviews, and after a year where I busted my butt to do everything I could with financial aid packages to attract students, we were told nobody was getting raises. :grr: I had put the mechanisms in place for them to not only bring in the number of students needed but to actually increase that number and be far more successful at it than they dreamed. The president had begun a capital campaign to attract large donors to the school. This capital campaign was supposedly designed to improve facilities, build new buildings, and increase FACULTY salaries. At the town hall meeting a few months previous, I stood up and asked about staff salaries and how that would be provided for. The president said in front of the whole college community that they had already budgeted for substantial staff raises and that it was not a part of the campaign. Satisfied with that answer, we went about our business. But when no staff member on campus got a raise that year and we asked why, the answer from the president was: "We just can't pay market rate." :wtf: I wasn't asking them to pay market rate----I was asking for meager compensation for a job well done and for cost of living. I was asking them to keep the promise made in front of the whole campus at the town meeting. Nope. Not a dime.

I found out after I left that the real reason we didn't get raises was that the president had overestimated the cost of the new telephone system that was put in and didn't have any funds left to give us. I could almost have taken that more easily than being lied to.

Now you know why I don't work there any more. :) I'm being paid what I'm worth now! :bounce: :toast:

[Crazy Dave]

8. Nobody could afford to pay you what you're worth....

...what you talkin' 'bout?
:hug: :loveya: :hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. ...

:loveya: Awww, shucks... :blush: Thanks, Dave.. :D

BTW, I should have said "underestimated" in my post, not "overestimated". :patriot:

[Danger Mouse]

9. This one is rich. I work for an agency that educated emotionally disturbed children.

We were, at the time, looking to moving to a new builiding, because generally it was agreed that the one we were in was unsatisfactory.
So, that year, we were given our annual COLA, but no retro check (which we typically get yearly) because they needed the money 'for the new building.'
Problem is, the 'new building' fell through and we're still in the old building for the foreseeable future.
So the money that was for the 'new building' went where exactly? Not into OUR wallets, that's for sure. :rofl: Now anytime there is lack of funding or if we're being short-changed, we sardonically say that the money went toward a mythical 'new building.'
Sigh.

[Nicole]

10. "I can't afford to lose you"

That was the reason my supervisor gave for not promoting me. She said she couldn't afford to lose me and wanted to keep me in that dept. She lost me about a month later. :P

[wildhorses]

14. when i overheard my father tell a salesman that he was

'grooming' his son to take over the family business. said son had been with the business for 2 years. i had been in the business from the ground up, 15 years and, helped him grow the business from a 3 person operation to a 30 person business with multimillion assets.

fuck my ole man

[Aristus]

15. I was once the best employee in a poorly run mall bookstore.

The manager (a major loser with a drawer full of clip-on ties) denied me a measly 0.35 cent-per-hour raise, and told me that there was more to working in a bookstore than "shelving books quickly and selling books to the customers".

!

He never explained what else working in a bookstore might entail. I quit a couple of days later. What a loser that guy was. :eyes:

[Blue Diadem]

17. Because I had a husband and "wasn't supporting a family"

like the male coworkers. Considering that I had 3 small children and my husband was getting laid off at least once a year, I was highly offended. My coworkers were all older men, with working wives and adult children who were living on their own.

Yes..I left as soon as we could financially afford it.

[ellisonz]

18. Profit.

[HEyHEY]

19. cause I was being managed (By an invisible manager)

When I was 20 I was the assistant manager of a shoe store. I was the head guy, made the schedule, all of that... but wasn't paid as the manager cause the District Manager was the manager on paper.... she came in about once a month to piss me off.

[rainbow4321]

20. Our nursing administration's response to request for more $$

and to us telling her that other local hospitals are paying more $$:

"We want nurses to be here not just because of $$ but because they WANT to be here..not just for the $$".


Response to us asking why they don't offer bonus pay for extra shifts worked when census is so high:

"Your motivation to come in should be that you want to help out your co-workers, not because you want the extra $$".



It's OK, the admins are getting screwed in the long run... patient census has severely bottomed out, other facilities are draining our patient population and at the last staffing forum, the facility's CEO and nursing CNO were begging nurses not to leave to go to other facilities to work. Easy for them to say, it is the nurses who are losing hours/pay by being cancelled while these admin folks still are pulling a full paycheck.
Last I heard, a dozen labor/delivery nurses have bailed out and quit the place. Admins are now sweating over a mass exodus of other nurses.