I love where I work, but I don't know if my boss is an idiot, if he thinks I'm an idiot, or both.
We've been short-staffed for about 18 months now. I'm the lowest paid member of the team and also only one of two team members who isn't salary. When I got hired on initially I told them I didn't want to work salary because work life balance was more important to me than money. They said “great” and left it at that. Which was fine until they reorganized and I got a new boss about 2 years ago.
The new boss doesn't stand up for us at all. So he just happily lets other people throw more work onto our team and we are just supposed to make do.
Fast forward till a few months ago. My salaried team members are working 60+ hour weeks, the two of us who are hourly are working 40 (on paper, the other hourly team member apparently likes to work for free because he works like 10-15 hours unpaid every week). Boss man knows he's getting free work out of that guy so he doesn't say anything. But instead he makes a snide comment to one of my colleagues “Because PossiblyALannister doesn't want to work more than 40 hours, we're falling behind on everything.” I guess the response was “Well maybe if you pay him more he'll be more incentivized to work more hours.” Of course it gets back to me, but I don't say anything. Whatever, he can make comments all he wants.
Fast forward to today, he offers me a promotion making $5000 more per year…on salary. I told him no. That bump to salary comes with an unspoken expectation that I'm going to be working the same amount of hours as the rest of the people on the team, which is going to amount to a pay cut. If I wanted that extra $5000 I'd work overtime.
Then I proceeded to explain to him that all us doing by working all those extra hours is show upper management that we don't need extra resources and burn us out. There is a reason why I'm the only one on the team that isn't completely burned out and pissed off all the time. My last job offered me a promotion to salary for a lot more of a pay raise and I got burned out a quit.
Apparently he isn't happy with me right now because I turned him down on his offer. I might have slightly screwed myself on going anywhere upwards on this team. Not that it seems to matter, all those people putting in all the extra hours aren't getting promotions and are getting barely any pay raises. On the other hand, I've made myself a great asset to a ton of different teams who the managers keep trying to poach me for non-salary positions. So I figure I'll just bide my time, get my home life in order to where I can switch teams and just leave him hanging.