I’m posting this on behalf of my brother in law, as he doesn’t visit Reddit much.
“I've been working at my job now for 7 years, since graduating highschool. I've worked my way up to the position I'm in currently. Started as a welder, moved to progressive stamping operator now I'm in quality.
About a year ago I was given a slight pay bump because I was doing a lot more than just my quality job. I knew how to do every job in the department including the highest paying job. Management moved someone else into the department, she was well over the attendance points but they all wanted in her pants, so they gave her the job I was “working”. The corporate office catches wind of them paying 3 quality techs and they demote me back down to my previous position netting an $8 an hour pay cut.
My manager at the time told me he was working on opening up a quality engineer position to move me into. I get the job. This puts me just over the pay I had just lost but now that I’m salary I don't get overtime. They never replaced me in my old position I was demoted to, so I couldn't really train to learn my salary position. I'm the only person in the plant that knows how to do it.
Fast forward 7 months and my manager lands a job somewhere else and moves on. They pull me into the office the day before he quits and demote me back down to the standard quality position, losing me $6 an hour again. The plant manager didn’t like my schedule, even though he approved it when they moved me into the salary spot.
The kicker to all of this is we had a failed audit, the only items that were good on the following audit was the shit I took care of.
I just put in my 2 weeks, and haven't felt better.”