As most of you know, I work in a dental office as a receptionist/assistant. So I have been at my job for over a year now. I started in October of 2007 and so did my co-worker. We have been at the same salary for the same amount of time. We were both told that when we were hired we would get raises after 90 days. Well we got our reviews in January and apparently the cut-off hire date for raises was October 1,2007 and I was hired on the 3rd and K was hired on the 5th so we didn't get raises. We were also told that when we got hired the hours we would be open(M,W,F 9-5pm, T,Th 11-7pm and 2 Saturdays/month 9-3pm). Fine with me. Those are starting to change and we are now open 9-7pm on Mondays.
Back in July our office manager went on maternity leave and was gone for 2 months. K and I ran the office. Took care of patient complaints, insurance issues, etc. everything an office manager would do on top of our daily jobs. We voiced our concerns to our managing Dr.(I work for a HUGE corporation-no names will be involved)that we never got our raises and we felt we deserved more than we have now. I will tell you I was also promised full time at 40 hours/week and am not even getting that so what I'm making hourly doesn't even help. Dr. O was furious that we would be treated like that so he went to the regional manager. It took him 3 months to hear something back from her. A few weeks ago, my office manager told me and K both that the way the economy is(btw this company makes BILLIONS of dollars a year so they can afford a least $2/hour)that there will be no raises for us. Dr. O is even more furious and is going over our regionaly manager's head to her boss. Dr. O had emeergency surgery a few weeks ago and I talked to him last week and he said despite the circumstances, he is still trying tog et ahold of our regional manager's boss. I believe him because he does not want to lose me and K.
K and I are starting to think that they are putting it off until January and will only give us $1 more an hour even though we were supposed to get our raise last year. I just found out tonight thatour regional manager was there tonight and now wants us to open more evenings and all Saturdays. I only make $10/hr doing all this worthless crap for a company that doesn't care about their employees and only cares about the money. I do a LOT of stuff for this company. I was promised to move permanently in the back to assist after 4 months of opening and still haven't. My office manager says she "forgets" I even asked to be moved in the back. Then I was moved to hygiene assisting and I don't want to do that. I help both the assistants in the back and the hygienist and the front desk and I don't feel appreciated for all the work I put in. I feel like I live there and don't even work 40 hours!
I just don't think its legal to give raises when your employees have been there over a year. K is looking for another job and I don't think I am far behind.
I just needed to vent......
I hope that explains everything well enough. I wish I could talk to you guys. It's just so much harder to explain it through typing....
Back in July our office manager went on maternity leave and was gone for 2 months. K and I ran the office. Took care of patient complaints, insurance issues, etc. everything an office manager would do on top of our daily jobs. We voiced our concerns to our managing Dr.(I work for a HUGE corporation-no names will be involved)that we never got our raises and we felt we deserved more than we have now. I will tell you I was also promised full time at 40 hours/week and am not even getting that so what I'm making hourly doesn't even help. Dr. O was furious that we would be treated like that so he went to the regional manager. It took him 3 months to hear something back from her. A few weeks ago, my office manager told me and K both that the way the economy is(btw this company makes BILLIONS of dollars a year so they can afford a least $2/hour)that there will be no raises for us. Dr. O is even more furious and is going over our regionaly manager's head to her boss. Dr. O had emeergency surgery a few weeks ago and I talked to him last week and he said despite the circumstances, he is still trying tog et ahold of our regional manager's boss. I believe him because he does not want to lose me and K.
K and I are starting to think that they are putting it off until January and will only give us $1 more an hour even though we were supposed to get our raise last year. I just found out tonight thatour regional manager was there tonight and now wants us to open more evenings and all Saturdays. I only make $10/hr doing all this worthless crap for a company that doesn't care about their employees and only cares about the money. I do a LOT of stuff for this company. I was promised to move permanently in the back to assist after 4 months of opening and still haven't. My office manager says she "forgets" I even asked to be moved in the back. Then I was moved to hygiene assisting and I don't want to do that. I help both the assistants in the back and the hygienist and the front desk and I don't feel appreciated for all the work I put in. I feel like I live there and don't even work 40 hours!
I just don't think its legal to give raises when your employees have been there over a year. K is looking for another job and I don't think I am far behind.
I just needed to vent......
I hope that explains everything well enough. I wish I could talk to you guys. It's just so much harder to explain it through typing....