What should I do about my job

I was on 16K on my placement job, now on about 18.5 with my IT Procurment position. If i was you, have a dicussion with your line manager - say your on below what you think and advise that he might get calls from different companies looking for references.

Just give him it straight, i know what you mean. I worked more hours than i was inteneded to do, made a bit of a moan to my boss and now after 1 year working i've got a 10% pay rise.
 
Schizophonic said:
I was on 16K on my placement job, now on about 18.5 with my IT Procurment position. If i was you, have a dicussion with your line manager - say your on below what you think and advise that he might get calls from different companies looking for references.

Just give him it straight, i know what you mean. I worked more hours than i was inteneded to do, made a bit of a moan to my boss and now after 1 year working i've got a 10% pay rise.
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I might give this ago, but that is not going to stop me updating the CV and having a look for jobs :)
 
Agreed. That pay is shocking. Regarding the placements getting paid more I also got paid more than you're currently on doing a placement after my 1st year at uni doing engineering!
 
[Sniper][Wolf];11626124 said:
Why? even if we have a good bond?
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A good bond? It's not yer father, it's your boss.;) If it's that good why hasn't he already upped your wages? It's clearly far too low, so why hasn't he done something about it?

I guess you're the best person to judge the approach as you know them better than anyone here but I wouldn't say going in for what amounts to nothing more than a chat is the best way to go about getting a decent pay rise.
 
Do what I just did (different IT job and different wage sector but the principle is the same)... just look for another job. When you find one you're interested in - and if you get the job - then resign and see if the old job offers you more. Either way you win.

If you don't find anything then nothing is lost, but you get valuable interview experience.
If you get offered a job at more money (or just better prospects) then you win.
If you get offered more money to stay in your old job then you win.
 
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My first exposure to IT support was 2 years ago when I just my previous workplace, it started off really pants pay (11k rising to 12.8 after probation) but the experience gained from it in a business type of environment was good (Exchange, BES, Webhosting admin etc) hence why I could not make a fuss about pay for a bit.

Besides that I didn't have a degree or any "major" qualification, all I had was some experience in that field so they took me onboard based on that.

After 2 years the pay only went up to 13.4k even though we had been promised competitive pay for months beforehand!
On top of this the management had gotten worse and moral got low among the older members of my team to the point that when I left 3 others left at the same time, a 4th would have left but they offered a bit more money to keep him.

Throughout those 2 years more people left to start better jobs with more pay with actually less work to do and have more freedom so I decided to do the same and am now way more salary wise.

Like you (Sniper Wolf) I wanted to stay at the previous place because it had good experience and they were rolling out new internal services that would amplify this experience but the lack of job satisfaction and lack of decent pay put a lot of us off.

I guess it's down to where you live as I got my new job fairly quickly but it just took a few months to get everything sorted for it.

My 2ps :D
 
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