[kendra k]

so, this is all for a friend. seriously. we both work for the same small library on a big big campus. (guess which one!) i'm a full time career staff emlpoyee who gets paid decently (though little) and has full benefits. he's just been promoted from student emlpoyee to contract full time staff, with full benefits, but his pay hasn't changed at all. he makes about $12 an hour, or $2000 a month pre-tax. the whole position is a little weird. nothing has really been said about it. i assumed he'd be getting a raise as well, but i guess that wasn't the case.

should he talk to somebody about it? if so, who? our HR people are helpless. our direct boss might be good, but i'm afraid he'll try too hard to avoid conflict and not say anything that will make my friend leave. i told my frien he needs to ask about it, but also look for other jobs, but he's afraid it might be duplicitious.

blargh!!!!

[Sidders]

Get him to write a letter to the boss, that's what I did.

[fish heads]

Yeah, I don't know too much about work related matters, but it seems as if they think that your friend will be happy enough with the promotion and thus save themselves a little bit on wages. I'm just guessing of course, I know little about your situation. He should give it a try though

[Betti911]

He should def talk to someone about it. I'd go straight to the boss and ask the situation reagrding a payrise. Thats why I got my payrise last week. It doesn't make you more popular though.

[kendra k]

hopefully he'll talk to our boss about it today. he's hesitant because we don't really have heierarchical office, and we're all way too chummy. ususally pay rates like this are dictated by the university, but i think because it's a weird contract job it's falling through the cracks.