When I first started working for this new company I work for now, I had no experience about the concentrated chemical's we work with and how to disassemble or reassemble the machines. They threw me out on the field with no one really knowing much and nobody teaching me. I stepped up and learned the names of the chemical's and learned how to disassemble, reassemble and what chemical to use for each part of the machines. I became a Team Leader. I got asked to become a supervisor but I turned it down. I like to learn and I'm willing to push my self to learn it

All my working life I have always been promoted to a trainer. I have always been on the "Go to" list for questions. But since I returned from my Maturnity leave at my current job, I have found out I am no longer a trainer, and I dont have the permissions to do other process paths like I used to. I have to be retrained, and the company has raised the rate goals. Which I am struggling to make. I feel like I am just another head in a head count.

I was offered a trainers position with a increase in wage$ within my company!!

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?