Being nickled and dimed, or am I just oversensitive?

Lenniusce

Here's the situation, I've worked at my job for almost a year and came in making very little (30k) since it was a startup doing a lot more work than 30k worth. Staying late during implementation, offering remote support, driving across the country for sometimes 16 hours a day and staying out for a month or two at a time. So during implementation, they put us all on salary and worked us nights and weekends (sometimes up to 90 hrs) so that, as the COO said, "we don't have to pay overtime".

4 months into it I get a promotion but no raise...I had to ask them for my raise like a kid asking daddy for an allowance. My boss went up to the CEO and asked them to bump me up to 40k, to which the CEO says "we will give him 35K now, then the rest in Feb/March". It's now April and they have a supposed "raise freeze" even though they bring in new developers, admins, etc.

I received another promotion in February into IT for "doing so well", which moved me out of the hardware department all together and landed me as Jr Linux/Server Admin. I asked my new boss if I was going to get the rest of my raise for this second promotion to which he replies: "Well, not we can't do anything for at least 6 months, you'll be at 35K until then, oh any by the way we will need you on weekends for demo and remote support"

I mean, I feel like i've been pretty reliable and dedicated to this company, but I can't help but feel nicked and dime'd along the way. From the info i've given you, should I just be happy for the experience or do I have a legitimate suspicion that i'm being screwed?

gadav478

Lenniusce wrote: »

Let me set the record straight now that I am a few months out from my original post: I regret my decision to leave. I had a great opportunity there and had a chance to learn a lot. Do not leave if you are in a position similar to mine, the experience with that job title would have been invaluable. I now sit (mostly) unemployed doing contract work for that same company. You don't know what you have until its..

Sorry to hear this broham... lesson learned I guess. Keep plugging away at your skill set and you'll start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.