Or at least it was time, back in April. The reviews were supposed to take place the first week in April and be retroed back to April 1st. They never happened, we and we were never told why.
So, last week they started doing the reviews. They didn’t get to me. I got an email from my boss saying she would be in on Saturday (yesterday) to go over mine. She also asked me on Wed if I’d be in on Saturday.
She didn’t show. This week she is back east. So no raise until at least the week after next. Note, if we had the meeting on Saturday the raise would have made this coming paycheck. Not anymore.
I am getting fairly pissed about the whole thing. Not enough for a pit thread (yet) but this is getting silly. I like the company I work for. Good software, nice enviroment for the most part and the pay is about 1/3 over standard for the area I live in, though that works out to average nationwide. The benefits rock.
But. We are short on staff by 5. When there are only about 17 people on staff, being down 5 people is huge. Part of the problem is that we are so short staffed that everyone is running around like maniacs trying to put out the fires caused by us being so short staffed (One of those vicious circle things). So my boss doesn’t have time to do meetings because we are all slammed.
Does your company have an HR department? I wouldn’t file a formal complaint, but perhaps a “pop your head in the door and mention the situation” type of thing.
That might be enough to get your boss’s attention.
I had a boss do that so her numbers would be artificially inflated and she could win a contest and go to Cancun. So, yeah, the branch looked more profitable and all without the raises being reflected in the costs and she felt no guilt knowing the raises would be retroactive. I totally ratted her out.
Well, my company is fairly small. The VP is the person who didn’t show on Saturday. Going to HR about this would be a little dicey as the VP is someone you don’t want to piss off.
At this point I am not hurting for money and the raise will be retroactive. The thing that gets me is the disrespect. If I were three months late on something I’d get an ass chewing.
At my last job, your annual review was supposed to be right around your hire anniversary date.
At the end of my first year there, there was a new head/ director for the corporate HR decided that all reviews would be done in October, for the whole company. Some regional person was supposed to do the review for each employee with his or her respective boss. Yeah, that works well in a field based job (more than 50% of work was in the field), people taking vacations, and oh, an arseload of employees.
So I didn’t get a review until… end of November. The measly raise didn’t come through for 4 pay cycles… because HR was so overwhelmed with processing reviews. and no it wasn’t retro active like it should have been.
Gee, I am really glad I don’t work for that company anymore.
Sorry to hear of your review troubles slee… hopefully you will get some if not all of it retroactive.
Well, two years ago I got laid off from a high-tech company in peril. I found a job a few months later and took a 26% pay cut just to get back into the work force again. That company got bought out 15 months after I joined it, and I was laid off with no review or raise. I shortly found another job which offered the same pay as the previous one, and then missed the annual review cycle because I hadn’t been here long enough.
So, let’s see March of 2004 was the last time I had a raise. I need to go till February 2008 before I have my next review and raises will probably kick in by April. So, 4 years with no raises and a 26% reduction. Beat that.
In my previous job my review was late by about three months. I went in to HR and asked if this was supposed to be a subtle message to me that I should be looking for new work. The HR rep said no that was not the message I was meant to get. I received my review a few days later. At that company the raises we applied retroactively.
We have a similar situation going on, except the reviews did happen. We were informed back in December that our department was part of a larger group that had voted to join the union. So even though everyone got their review, no raises will happen until a union contract is voted in. It is now the middle of July with hardly any word from the union.
I am SO glad I got promoted and am not subject to the union anymore.
My last review was in March of last year, while I was sort of on leave (waiting until I could telecommute) and not actually working, and it was done by a supervisor who had never actually supervised me, really. We corresponded a couple times about when I’d be starting work again, but that’s all. So, she consulted with the guy who was my supervisor before her, and it was all totally pointless. Then she transferred out of the department, and I was assigned to another supervisor by the time I actually started working.
My reviews are supposed to be in November of every year. My new supervisor had me fill out all the various self-evaluation crap back in December of last year, then I heard nothing from her until May of this year, at which time, she said, “hey, we need to get your review done, can you fill out these self-evaluation tools?” After I told her I’d already done them, she couldn’t find them, of course, and so I had to do it all over again.
And here it is, halfway through July, and I haven’t heard any more about it. :rolleyes:
At my work, the annual performance/salary reviews took place around April. But we had to postpone my review due to work commitments, and my boss and I never got around to organising another review date. But he gave me a raise anyway. It was a bit late (only got it a few weeks ago), but it was more than I expected and it was backdated til April so I’m happy. And that backdating made my last payday pretty damn nice.
We keep mentioning to each other that we need to get that review done, but I reckon we’ll probably just end up putting it off until the next round of reviews (September; no raises this time unfortunately).
