I guess this entry should be dated a week or two ago, but it's an overview of everything that has been happening at work these last few weeks so I don't think I need to change the posted date.
There are some days where I leave work and all I can think is "I just don't get paid to put up with this kind of shit." I am really bitter and cynical about the response I got when I asked Claude about getting compensated properly for my new, ridiculous amount of heavily depended on responsibilities.
Claude usually pulls through for me, and in the past, he has exceeded above and beyond my expectations (and has even suprised me a few times) with his great leadership skills. But this time, I basically got a BS answer.
He said something about how my pay schedule is more stretched out because I'm here all year 'round, and so I'm not considered to be on an intern's pay schedule. Even Veronica last summer, becoming a sophomore, made more than I make right now becoming a sophomore. By proportion, it would be smarter for me to leave and come back than to stay all-year-round.
So my second idea was to ask for a different kind of compensation - to have a second co-op come work with us. I proposed the idea that I bring in a friend (or sibling - I'll get to that later) to help out with some work. I actually suggested this before Catherine even announced her leave, so my train of thought was not geared the way it might appear to others now. This would be the most no-strings-attached solution for IT. Pay the same amount to a second person without having to lift a finger in training him/her, having the obligation to keep him/her the whole summer, or having to worry about anything else like that. But this idea was also shot down.
I better be compensated in one way or another eventually.
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