My former company and the union too, agreed to give me and my coworkers in our satellite location a 50 cent raise after 1.5 years, our other coworkers doing the exact same job and exact same amount of work at the main warehouse got a $7.00 raise so after a month I gave a three week notice and told em I was moving out of state (which I did). When they realized that their youngest employee was serious (my other coworkers were 15+ years older than me) they didn't even tell me and bumped my pay up by another $5.25 in addition to the 50 cent raise. This week in my new home I finally landed a full time gig and this morning I told my former co-workers who got the same 50 cent raise what they paid me on my last two checks..to which they didn't get the same.
The company which despite increased costs (tho they raised their prices too) made a whopping $2.8 million net profit last year off ,$22 million in sales..not too shabby profit margin so they could easily afford to pay all of us satellite location employees more. My old coworker who I trained on my route quit yesterday with no notice, and of the two left, one of the others called HR Thursday and told them he was retiring in two weeks. So all of that greed they used to save a buck is gonna cost them countless tens of thousands of dollars per route per week, not to mention there are no employees to cover each job from the main office, and customers will start to cancel service. I would have told my coworkers sooner, but I knew management would easily bad mouthed me to a potential employer on a reference check for what they would consider “burning my bridge”. How about not burning your employees to where they feel they have had a knife plunged into their back? Nahh…too easy.