Work issues

I have work issues. Most speicfically my rate of pay.

3 years ago i started my job as an FLA for a major computer company. I started at 13.50 per hour. I quickly worked through my job and landed in the quality department. When i left that job some 3.5 years later i was making 16.75.

Fast forward to now. I've started at a new place due to a relocation. They started me at 13.50 with the promise of a raise. I have now been told there will be no raise. I work for the same major computer company but a differnet outsourced partner.

To say that im insulted is an understatement. I do not understand how my experience can only be worth my starting pay that i had 3.5 years ago.

I have spoke to sir about this. Grant you there is nothing any of us can do over it. My options here are few and far between. In the end i think im just going to have to follow my own advise that i commonly give out at work. Smile nicely. Nod polietly.

It's just really hard to eat these sour grapes. Sure my expectations may be high due to the other partner. But i did not work for a partner that was top of the line either. There were many buildings and jobs out there that our employees commonly went to. The major reason for them leaving - joe down the street offered more pay, flexable hours, better benefits. Who could blame them for leaving?

It is just days like this where i do wish i was home. Where i would not have to worry over such stupid things. Where i would be given my allowance to manage. The household bills no longer my worry. The running of my day no longer my cosideration.

It is times like today when i think my home coming will never arrive. That i will be stuck in this low pay hell forever - which makes me very sad.

~ me