Month: April 2022

I must spend too much time reading stories on this subreddit because you assholes are starting to get into my head. I work for a small company providing services to counties I won't go into specifics. The other day a coworker was venting some frustrations to me about lack of pay/benefits and time work balance about our job and I casually mentioned that since we had such a small company and there were only few people in our position it would take a minuscule amount of people to vote and unionize, Little did I know I was speaking to a coworker that is apparently well known for going and talking to the boss about every little thing that someone says, flash forward a few hours and I'm on the phone with my boss and he's offering me a $4,000 raise seemingly out of the blue which I happily accepted but…

I work in a specialised area of marketing; setting up analytics tracking, dashboards, undertaking data analysis, digital advertising campaigns and some SEO work (and more). Previously I did all this for 10+ government projects. I worked my way up from an intern into this highly specialised role at one company over the span of 5 years. The people I worked with were fantastic, creative people for the most part. In 2021, I requested a raise to bring me in line with data I uncovered about what the work I was doing was actually worth. I contacted the HR department (the standard at this organisation) and made the case for a 30% raise, on a very low salary of 55k AUD. Instead of negotiating with me or even responding to my email, the HR department was almost completely silent (apart from a meeting request that was promptly cancelled and never rescheduled).…

Long story short, I was thrown under the bus by my company and chosen to take the fall for a huge messy situation that they didn’t want to acknowledge. This fall made the mess go away and it was much easier to just get rid of me. In my state (and many others!) there is a legal requirement to issue final pay in full within 24 hours of employment end to the former employee. Failure to do this results in the employer owning the former employee a penalty of full pay up until such a time that final pay is fully issued. Payroll failed to pay me my full final paycheck, issue my W2, or return my personal items. They proceeded to ignore emails, place me on hold for 45 minutes+ each call attempt, and lie left and right as I tried to sort out my missing pay. I filed…