foreclosure pay the difference
I was offered a promotion, four months later still no pay.?
I was offered a promotion to the head of my department. I quit a part time job and gave up 2 other potential jobs to except the job. The job was supposed to start 30 days after I accepted the position, but it still has not happened four months later. The job is still there as they are paying another individual for the job, so the job has not gone away. They told me they could not pay him enough to go back to his old position so they are giving him my job until they can afford to get him back to his old position. As of 2 weeks ago the job is still mine, but they keep playing games with me. This has caused me huge financial issues as the position is still there and I am doing the majority of the job for the same pay before the promotion was accepted. I have damages in the form of I gave up other opportunities and may house is in a foreclosure status because the difference in pay. What should I do?
If you’re not back to shopping for other job offers yet, why?
Were I in your shoes, and my company did this to me, I’d refuse to do the extra work for no extra pay. They broke the deal, so they’d have to deal with it. Don’t expect me to pick up the responsibilities of a higher-paid position, then not pay me for doing those things. No sir, I won’t do it.
So I’d go back to hunting up a better job offer. Sucks that you turned down the other two offers, but this should give you all the evidence you need that this employer is just using you. They don’t really care about your long-term career prospects– sounds to me like they were giving you some lip-service and trying to make you feel “valued.” Then they failed to back it up with action, causing you much financial duress. Get out of that rat’s nest ASAP.
I don’t know if you’ve got any legal recourse. I’d doubt it. You willfully gave up the other jobs and the two offered positions. Sort of a “you made your own bed” sort of thing, as far as the law would be concerned. I don’t think I’d waste my time even talking to a lawyer about it, to be honest.
