9 Ways to Tell You Are Not Appreciated at Your Job
1. On each person’s yearly anniversary with the company they receive a card signed by all the employees congratulating and thanking them for being there another year. Your yearly anniversary comes and goes with no acknowledgment.
2. The other person in your department who has the same skill set and experience that you have is paid $30K more.
3. The person who is paid $30K more than you do leaves. The boss looks outside the company instead of asking you if you want to assume his position.
4. You aren’t asked for you input, or asked to even see the resume of the person who is ultimately hired to take over the position even though you are supposed to work closely with this person.
5. You negotiate an unpaid vacation so you don’t eat into your PTO time. After you leave, your boss tells the HR manager to dock your PTO time anyway.
6. You suddenly find out most of your coworkers (at least the ones in equivalent or higher positions) have annual reviews of their job performance, accompanied by raises, promotions, etc. You’ve been there over a year, and never heard of any such thing.
7. At Christmas time, your ‘appreciation’ card has a $20 gift certificate to the pizza place, instead of a $100 check.
8. At Christmas, you’re the only one who’s “Secret Santa” forgets to buy them a gift.
9. You request vacation time four months in advance, and get turned down after bugging HR for two months. Later you find out the *new* guy requested time off during the same month, but he was approved, even though he put in his request only a week before you got turned down.
Yeah, definite warning signs there. Definite.
Comment by Kristine — June 14, 2008 @ 7:52 am[...] Sometimes, it’s just best to leave. [...]
Pingback by GreenEye Wire»Blog Archive » Getting Out of a Bad Relationship Is Always a Good Thing — June 20, 2008 @ 7:38 am10. You discover that three people you nurtured and trained recently received raises, even though one of them is moving to KCMO on Aug. 22, another is reducing his hours to go back to school, and the third routinely has a pool set up on when he’s ACTUALLY going to get to work, if at all (I usually take that slot.)
Comment by BillMan — August 13, 2008 @ 10:45 pmAnd they wonder why I have an attitude problem. I don’t, really-
*I* have an attitude, *THEY* have the problem.