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I'm not a native speaker, so bear with me here. Just wanted to share something that is happening right now at my company. If you have any advice, feel free to comment. Started at the company after uni (MSC in technical engineering) in October 2019 as executive assistant. In August 2021 they promoted me and made me project manager (funny side story: at first they didnt want to give me a raise right in August, as i already got one in January. They wanted me to work as project manager, but i wouldnt get my “full” pay until January 2022). I insisted and got the raise right away. Also, we agreed that i would still do some old assistant stuff until October 2021 when my replacement/successor would have started. Long story short, they first postponed the start to April 2022, and last week i got notified that the replacement wouldnt…


I'm not a native speaker, so bear with me here. Just wanted to share something that is happening right now at my company. If you have any advice, feel free to comment.

Started at the company after uni (MSC in technical engineering) in October 2019 as executive assistant. In August 2021 they promoted me and made me project manager (funny side story: at first they didnt want to give me a raise right in August, as i already got one in January. They wanted me to work as project manager, but i wouldnt get my “full” pay until January 2022). I insisted and got the raise right away. Also, we agreed that i would still do some old assistant stuff until October 2021 when my replacement/successor would have started. Long story short, they first postponed the start to April 2022, and last week i got notified that the replacement wouldnt come at all and that they want me to continue to do assistant tasks parallel to my new tasks until further notice. Although my old tasks made up some 40-50% of my time before christmas, my old boss assured me that from now on it would only be 20% (what I highly doubt).

I explained to both of my bosses that this is not exactly what i envisioned when i agreed to the promotion, as the assistant stuff is quite boring and not really challenging. They didnt really care. Additionally, I asked for some compensation. In my opinion, I help the company (which is already struggling due to the chip shortages) to effectively save a FTE, so it would only be fair to let me participate at that saving. I proposed 10% of my old salary as an additional bonus and not only got declined, but my old boss got actually really offended. Ranted about where this “attitude” from the younger folks would come from, and that the amount of overtime i do is a joke (i had some 200 hours overtime in 2021 with no pay). They got me so far to think that i might be in the wrong here, but after talking to some friends, they all supported my claims. And now, I dont really care anymore, they can all go f*** themselves. I have a good education and i do not need to put up with shit like that. They lost me for good and there is no coming back from here.

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