Poor Clark the Coworker
This would be Clark, the intelligent, pleasant, and quaint Coworker--not to be mistaken with the earlier stated 'stupid coworkers.'
Clark was hired at ICE as a temporary--a fill-in for the masses of missing staff in the marketing department. Colormist instantly went on a rant as soon as Clark was hired--filling Clark in on all the ins and outs. Colormist has no ability to censor her speak or practice discretion--mainly because she doesn't believe in it. Inevitably Colormist scared Clark by informing him that the previous person in his position was fired after only a few days of work.
Clark, with his MBA, work diligently and was eventually slated to take the management position of the marketing department. He discontinues doing larger complicated creative pieces for the department and begins working on invoices, databases, tracking sales numbers, and all sorts of un-fun stuff.
Clark went into a meeting in the spring (as all staff of the marketing department did) during the reconstruction of their department and learned that he was going to get a raise as well as a new title. Clark was ecstatic and adjusted his living accordingly. He was getting married the following year, so he wanted to have enough money for the wedding, honeymoon, and chose a more expensive benefits plan.
Months pass, and Clark begins to get curious about his raise and new title. He consults with Step-on-me, who informs him that they just need to file some paperwork and it shouldn't take long.
Months pass again. Clark is worrying about his funds for the wedding and benefits. He wouldn't have signed up for the benefits had he have known that it would have taken this long. He speaks to supervisor Step-on-me again and learns that they never said it would happen soon--in fact, it might not happen until next summer.
Later, Clark learns of a massive reconstruction going on at work. Everyone is getting new titles so that the office titles mesh better with the rest of the world. Nearly 6 months have passed since he began the new position. He hasn't received a raise, nor a title change. And now he learns that he might not be getting either because they're delaying his raise until after the reconstruction.
Is this even LEGAL???
Clark was hired at ICE as a temporary--a fill-in for the masses of missing staff in the marketing department. Colormist instantly went on a rant as soon as Clark was hired--filling Clark in on all the ins and outs. Colormist has no ability to censor her speak or practice discretion--mainly because she doesn't believe in it. Inevitably Colormist scared Clark by informing him that the previous person in his position was fired after only a few days of work.
Clark, with his MBA, work diligently and was eventually slated to take the management position of the marketing department. He discontinues doing larger complicated creative pieces for the department and begins working on invoices, databases, tracking sales numbers, and all sorts of un-fun stuff.
Clark went into a meeting in the spring (as all staff of the marketing department did) during the reconstruction of their department and learned that he was going to get a raise as well as a new title. Clark was ecstatic and adjusted his living accordingly. He was getting married the following year, so he wanted to have enough money for the wedding, honeymoon, and chose a more expensive benefits plan.
Months pass, and Clark begins to get curious about his raise and new title. He consults with Step-on-me, who informs him that they just need to file some paperwork and it shouldn't take long.
Months pass again. Clark is worrying about his funds for the wedding and benefits. He wouldn't have signed up for the benefits had he have known that it would have taken this long. He speaks to supervisor Step-on-me again and learns that they never said it would happen soon--in fact, it might not happen until next summer.
Later, Clark learns of a massive reconstruction going on at work. Everyone is getting new titles so that the office titles mesh better with the rest of the world. Nearly 6 months have passed since he began the new position. He hasn't received a raise, nor a title change. And now he learns that he might not be getting either because they're delaying his raise until after the reconstruction.
Is this even LEGAL???
posted by Laura Mitter at
2:46 PM
1 Comments:
If this is one of those Massive companies,Clark needs to get agressive,and take the "nasty,not nice,push around" worker stance.This is office politics,and he needs to go to the TOP OF THE HEAP,probably out of the dept,and also consult some kind of legal person. Yes,that is this bad.He is getting shafted; he needs to know his legal rights, at this point. Yeah,you are right to try and ask, "is this legal?" Hate to tell you, nice guys who do not look out for themselves,in these nasty, massive companies, get shafted, like a poor chicken wandering around on an open plain infested with coyotes.
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