feel good inc
So I have posted many disparging things here about my place of employment.
Generally about the guy who runs the place, Sami.
My latest review has been postponed for almost six months by him, for no reason that I agreed with.
So I didn't want to gripe too much, but I was really getting worried because my anniversary date is in October, and I got my review by my boss, and it was stellar. Guy recommended a huge raise and I left Chicago happy.
Then Sami said I couldn't have the raise until March.
He gave some lame reasons, and I couldn't much other than to say "if you have an employee you like, wouldn't you go out of your way to reward that guy, rather than do things to make him disatisfied?"
Sami apparently doesn't care, and we have lost many good people to attrition.
So now it's March. No raise, no mention of it all all.
I've sent several emails, but they all go off into a black hole, so I have idea if they're even read.
Now I'm really upset because in October, no one is talking recession or the like. Now that everyone is, I could really see that as a weak excuse to say "Yeah, we can't do that right now...."
Which would really make me mad about it not being done when it was originally supposed to be.
So Monday I sent a much more stern email to my boss (he reports to Sami) saying I wanted something done about my review, or I was going to be very unhappy, careful to use any words like 'quit'.
I finally got a call late Tuesday from my boss saying "Ok, I got your email, and I took it to Joe, (the new COO). He's going to be handling these types of issues going forward, and he went ahead and approved it"
Well, fantastic. I'm glad it finally got done, but I'm a little irritated that it was able to be handled that fast, and yet was postponed for so long.
I left work and went to coach the girls' soccer practice, and that went really good. Earlier in the day, I went to a used bookstore I like to look for a very specific and long out of print book, and they had it!
All in all, a very good day!
Generally about the guy who runs the place, Sami.
My latest review has been postponed for almost six months by him, for no reason that I agreed with.
So I didn't want to gripe too much, but I was really getting worried because my anniversary date is in October, and I got my review by my boss, and it was stellar. Guy recommended a huge raise and I left Chicago happy.
Then Sami said I couldn't have the raise until March.
He gave some lame reasons, and I couldn't much other than to say "if you have an employee you like, wouldn't you go out of your way to reward that guy, rather than do things to make him disatisfied?"
Sami apparently doesn't care, and we have lost many good people to attrition.
So now it's March. No raise, no mention of it all all.
I've sent several emails, but they all go off into a black hole, so I have idea if they're even read.
Now I'm really upset because in October, no one is talking recession or the like. Now that everyone is, I could really see that as a weak excuse to say "Yeah, we can't do that right now...."
Which would really make me mad about it not being done when it was originally supposed to be.
So Monday I sent a much more stern email to my boss (he reports to Sami) saying I wanted something done about my review, or I was going to be very unhappy, careful to use any words like 'quit'.
I finally got a call late Tuesday from my boss saying "Ok, I got your email, and I took it to Joe, (the new COO). He's going to be handling these types of issues going forward, and he went ahead and approved it"
Well, fantastic. I'm glad it finally got done, but I'm a little irritated that it was able to be handled that fast, and yet was postponed for so long.
I left work and went to coach the girls' soccer practice, and that went really good. Earlier in the day, I went to a used bookstore I like to look for a very specific and long out of print book, and they had it!
All in all, a very good day!