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I just got promoted to Director of Development! The raise gets me up to $95k/year effective immediately. I won't even have any more responsibilities until we build our our internal development team. The president of the company said he told the CEO we needed to give me something now or they might lose me. But he told me that he is confident he'll be able to get me up to "110k or more like you should be making" by the early part of next year, they just have to work on the CEO more and build a case. He sprung it on me at the very end of an unrelated meeting, I didn't even react at first because I thought I misheard him, I was fully expecting to have to wait to see anything until next year.
I'm fucking pumped! $22k/year more all of a sudden. What a big difference.
Well done Xorks. I was on £2k a month in my old job, and got let go for harassment.
Got tendanitus from the job (in both arms... had to say it wasn't an industrial disease which it is), then covid while there, then sacked, then long covid, then pneumonia, then long covid - thats 3months+ of covid stuff! And my official reason for sacking was... attendance with tendanitus/covid, and... breaking an O ring. Picture a 3mm flimsy sort of cock ring that you grease onto a motor and bolt metal lids for upto 10 litre motors on. We literally break them (or don't have them) on nearly every build. One kid broke ten in two days and all I did was give him ten trips for his birthday!
Such a kick in the face man. I was only off a week for each and got medical evidence, made calls etc. Its worse than harassment. An ore ring! I don't bully anyone. Im ironic, sarcastic, call anyone out; but I'm no fucking bully. FTR I tend to quote things verbatim, so this is clear as day what was said. Got a weird memory reserve just for things people say, and nothing else.
Basically a guy/lad I was working with set up a sort of sketchy "prank" that I was getting watched, even though I'd told him I thought I was getting watched earlier that week... then a former manager literally watched us for a few days while he "helped" the person who made the following comment, completely randomly while I was busy: "Watch it, because you're being watched and your probation is coming up, so keep your head down or you'll get sacked" (how did he know btw, working with the watcher?).
So I dwelled on it for like an hour, my work 'mate' (I honestly thought we would become close friends) said nothing except I was being paranoid, even though I'd just been told I was getting watched, so I pointed that out, obviously. I was confused so went straight to my other coworker, asked what he'd heard; was told it as set up by my guy, the lad I worked with. So anyway, I found out, found out he had aditionally told the guy to tell all the fitters I thought they were spying on me - these are my fucking workmates ,some of which I barely knew yet! I called him out, and told him he was absolutely not allowed to pull anything like that again, I do not allow it and he he got all defensive and obscuring.
I was pretty chill with the lad: just repeating that despite what he said about its not true, well, he'd already admitted it was and I'd watched the entire thing unfold and let me find from the other guy, and it was not cool. It's what I call sketchy banter.
We argued but he eventually kicked off when I told him "......... you fucking daft cunt man...", which in geordie is a an olive branch of sorts where you can sort of admit/forgive/forget, said with the right tone. Like I was resigned to it and couldn't believe it; sounds terrible in text, but very soft in geordie.
For some reason that really fucking triggerd him. Hes a gym lad but when he got in my face I did not waver, decimated his reasoning, and then eventually he kind of broke entirely and went "I.. I don't even know what my argument is anymore". I went "yeah, because you don't fucking have one", and he just went blank. He ignored me for a week and wouldn't say why but would only tell me to "fuck off", sometimes, but in a very reserved sort of frightened way. Ghosted by a guy; only ever been ghosted by a girl I had been deeply in love with! it was so weird! I can not explain. I've heard of freeze mode. Fight, flight or freeze. I honestly think he was in freeze state which can be damaging. It was just really, really odd. He started making eye contact and saying the odd thing. If I asked him why he was ignoring me he got really angry, but silently! It sent him absolutely mental, but mute! Bizzzarrree. I just kept saying "Mate, we can resolve this. I've said since day one; none of it matters, it's in the past, gone. Resolve. Resolution There is only one good way out of this. Like, are you okay? You look broken over something that happened over ten minutes man let's fix this". Blank. Maybe fuck off.
My managers refused to resolve it. I told them I was genuinely concerned, he looked unhappy and it was effecting work. I was shouted at by the main guy. The manager below him, Andy, I approached and asked why I was being accused of harassment, and he literally said this: "Well actually you asking me why you're being accused of harassment, could in fact be considered harassment in and of itself, and like I've told you, I can make this official and take it to HR". I so fucking wish I went myself, I could have decimated them but I'd just been through this bizzare experience and I think it obviously had me on the back foot about being sacked. I just stared at him like "you cunt". It's been 3+ months now, is it too late to report? They did a load of things HR would deffo be pissed off about. I mean, as if he said that. It was sly, coniving, manipulating.
Anyway I got called in the office and told that three month review someone mentioned just happened to be the very next day. I went "well that's very timely isn't it, do people by any chance ever get sacked at these interviews?" (I knew), and Andy went "all cards are on the table". Good bits coming next at the review.
So I had the review, found out I was sacked for attendence and productivity or something, because tendanits/covid (two weeks man), and then the productivity was snapping the O ring. Ridiculous.
Anyway, I kept asking the CEO Ian who was sitting at the opposite end of the table to Andy, who had a fake grim face, "Ian, if somebody said to you that asking why you were accused of harassment, could infact be considered harassment, and they could take you to HR, would you do that personally yourself, or consider that harassment".
He's a bit thick so I asked him three times and the third time he looked at Andy, gaping slightly, and went "is he talking about you?!". Yeah fucking right I was, little prick!
Andys reaction actually made my day "Ermmmm... yes I can indeed confirm he is talking about me, however, I can also confirm this event did not happen and I wasn't there".
My response: "here man, Andy, we've literally just been discussing it two times, and it took the third time for you to admit it was about you, but you weren't there? You know exactly what you said just admit it"
Andy "Again, I can only... categorically confirm, I was not there and it did not happen".
Me again "yeah but you've just admitted you were there and it's about you man, howeh, this whole thing is fucking ridiculous and mostly your fault, and you know it"
Grim faced silence. Ian taking notes about Andy.
Andy even cleared out the factory as far as the door (half a factory) when I was slowly clearing my cupboard, like I was a threat. It's still soooo fucking weird. He tried to block the lad I worked with, arms folded like a bouncer. I just walked past him and shook my old friends hand and genuinely wished him look; but then again, people were watching so he looked like a right dick. Also, he has a wet hand shake. And he's gained a label as someone who will betray you to the manager. And on that last note.
My resolution here (not knowing exactly what happened did my head in): I heard a story from a friend I made there: about the main Boss, We'll call him V. Apparently, he didn't like a grinder that worked there, so he told everybody to ignore him and all they were allowed to say was to tell him to fuck off until he got sacked. The kid was traumatised. I reckon he did the same to me with my lad I worked with. I genuinely loved him to bits, despite his misary. It was very sad, and obviously again, very odd. I'm pretty sure being put through that damaged him. He's close to the main boss, his girlfriends dad is CEO of one of the other factories. Why make him do all that shit though? Oh fuck this is totally going to HR. I'm glad I wrote it out. Oh all my bosses are in the same guild by the way. The thick one, his dads the top dog along with the actual owned of the company, who looks like Mr Burns but 90.
So yeah, they can fuck right off and I'll send it to HR regardless, to the head. V is not meant to shout at people anymore. But oh he shouted at me a few times over things during that, it was pretty funny, I'll think of some of his coments and post bullet points.
Sorry, guess I had to get that out? Psychedelic drugs healing people to this very day: who'd have thought it.

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