I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!Well, the financial down of DH's work backing out of his promised raise has been replaced with some fairly good up news. Maybe. Do you all remember back when I was talking about DH applying for another job with the same company, that he was their top choice until a last minute resume came in and knocked him out of the running?
Well, that guy was fired because despite his fancy master's degree, he couldn't actually do the work. His idea of doing the work was "Show me what you got and I'll okay it." He was the one who was supposed to do the actual work and couldn't get it through his head that he wasn't being paid to sit on his tush and okay things. He was being paid to do the work himself.
So they've started training DH for the position. Chances are he'll start in the next four to six months. If they follow through on what they said this time. And this promotion would come with a big raise, way bigger than anything he could ever get at his current job. We're talking $1000 a month more, net, not gross, and that is just the starting wage of that job. The wage it tops out at is, get this, $600 a day for a ten hour day. Yes, a day. Oh, and you get that whether you work the full ten hours or not, if you work more than 5, or $300 if you work less than 5. Even if you only work one hour that day and then fly out. Of course, that's if you have a master's degree or 10 years of experience.
So he's not near that, but he is going to start a new set of correspondence classes to finish his B.A. and then go on to get his Master's. We have to come up with the initial downpayment, which we'll use his safety bonus for, but work will reimburse him at the end of each course, 100% for A's and 90% for B's, up to $4000 a year. DH has always gotten A's except 1 B from everything he has done so far, so I don't doubt he will do well enough to get fully reimbursed.
Yes, the company pulled a nasty with the other thing, but they've really stepped up to the plate now. It sounds more like they didn't want to give him a raise now because they figure he's going to be getting a big one with the promotion, even though his direct bosses wanted him to have one. If they follow through on this, it'll solve a lot of problems. With an extra $1000 a month, we could be out of credit card debt in less than 4 years and have our mortgage paid off in 6. I do not want to get my hopes up again, but yeah, its something pretty great, possibly.
So cross your fingers for us and say prayers if you do that sort of thing, cause I sure would love to know there is a real end to this debt tunnel.
Hope: When you get to the end of your rope and find a tire swing.
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Has the company put in writing the new position, pay, etc (all of the details)?
If not, I would recommend your husband ask them to put it in writing, especially considering their history.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:11 pm 1169334700
As for getting it in writing, I don't believe they would do it until much closer to when he would start. They have been really good to him up until the whole raise thing. It's not a union job so he's pretty much on his own. But I'll tell him to ask.
I doubt they'd invest 4 months of training him to do the job and then not give it to him, because they would have to start all over with someone and train them for four months.