To start off, I’ve been with this company two and a half years. Warehouse job, small company.
At the start of the year, I accepted a new position within the same company that ended up being twice the work I was doing before. They gave me no extra pay for this, and when I asked for more money as well as my yearly review that was long overdue, they gave me a whopping $0.50 an hour for the review while ignoring the position pay bump that should have been included. My bad there, shouldn’t have accepted the position without the pay being negotiated beforehand.
Part of the new position’s responsibilities were helping the delivery drivers unload their trucks after their route. All but one fell in line, and after months of trying to get this one driver to help like he was supposed to, my manager tells me that he’s on light duty due to injury and after working a 12 hour day he’s unable to help me. At this point I’m like “look, dude, if he’s on light duty, you shouldn’t be having him deliver full kegs all day to the point where he can’t even pull empties off his truck. Makes no sense.” And this guy literally says “Well, I think for it to make sense, you need to have a little empathy.”
I took offense to that. A lot. Told him I was done, and I was tired of working in jobs that made me feel worthless, only to get the “I’m sorry you feel that way” response. So I walked. I’m especially irked by the fact that this manager is fairly new in his position and was until fairly recently just one of the crew. Suddenly he moves up and he thinks he has a right to talk to me like this? Hell nah. Saw they posted online to fill my position, hiring at a dollar less than I was making per hour.