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slapshot715 · Newbie Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

I recently moved my family 1500 miles east to take a new position at a university. I felt that the new position was a move in the right direction for myself and my family. Here's the problem.

I started at the new job in July of this year and noticed on the first paycheck that I wasn't be payed the promised amount. I spoke with my new boss about it and he said he would take care of it. Nothing happened with my next pay check. I spoke with payroll and then to HR. There was a miscommunication according to HR. What I was being paid currently was the correct amount...not the promised amount. I produced the original job offer letter to HR and my paycheck was straightened out but at the expense of my boss. He apparently didn't like me going to HR but as I said to him, "talking with you didn't fix the problem". It turns out that what he promised me for pay and what the he told the HR department about my pay were 2 different things. Maybe he thought I wouldn't notice or maybe not do anything if I did.

My job is at a power plant and we work 24/7. The original agreement was that I will work the 3-11 shift. All was fine until after the pay issue and now the boss has me on a rotating shift....I rotate ever day! One day on afternoons, the next is night shift, then day shift. I asked him about this schedule and got a very polital answer that "better days are to come" but no answer on what to expect ...even as soon as three days from now.

I can move again....lots of jobs for a guy with my experience. This wouldn't be good for the family and the boss waited for me to close on my new house before screwing me with the new "rotatiing" schedule. Not fair but life never is.

Any suggestions? I am documenting and might go to HR again.

Pauloz · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:37 am Post subject:

slapshot715

There's something way too cute about this. Your pay was straightened out "at the boss's expense"? Aren't you guys supposed to be filling your W forms to get all this done properly? I would have thought that the salaries were on a more formal basis, unless they're cutting corners and seeing what they can get away with.

Do you have anything on a contract setting your shift hours, or is this the typical shift work "as required" approach? If it's "as required", not much you can do with that, except you have the talking point about misrepresentation of your salary, which is only peripheral to that issue.

I wouldn't trust this as far as I could spit it. This sounds like the boss was working on his budget figures for the salary mess, (presumably any savings wind up in his pocket) and is deliberately cranking up the degrees of difficulty.

Suggest get another job locally, to reduce dislocation for the family and keep the house on track.

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