I work at a vet clinic who recently hired a new administrator/HR manager who i will call T. Since he was hired, he has implemented a new compensation package with a tier system for all of our workers, Tier 1 of the tech position being the lowest and Tier 3 being the highest. With these changes, most of us got a pretty significant raise. After giving us our raises, T said not to talk about them or he might have to revoke our raise. This was two months ago. Fast forward to yesterday, and i hear that one of our Tier 2 technicians (who I will call B) went to T complaining that she wasn’t a Tier 3 despite her years of experience. The tier system was never outlined in the handbook, so there was a lot of confusion as to why each employee was put into their specific tier. Instead of formalizing it, T was using other staff members to describe the tiers: so-and-so is a Tier 3 because they do this, so on and so forth. B was upset, so she asked what one of our Tier 3 technicians was making. She continued to guess the number until she got it right and T confirmed that the other technician was making $28 an hour. Now everyone is angry and confused and wants answers, and a few of our support staff are ready to quit despite our practice being desperate for technicians and not being able to hire anybody.
I hate my job.