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Ignorance of job benefits

Posted on: Thu, 11/06/2008 - 06:12
Ignorance of job benefits

I once got promoted from a shop floor guy to senior supervisory position in another department. The new post came with a car allowance but I didn't know that until the amount was raised and one of my co-workers who was so happy about it told me. He thought I was getting it all along.

So I went to my boss and asked him why I was not being paid the allowance. He gave me a convoluted story about how it was going to be discontinued and new tax laws and so on, and so on. It turned out that there was no plan to pay me the alllowance as long as I never knew about it.

Took me more than another year of letters and cajolings to get it and only a part of it was retroactive.

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Posted on: Thu, 11/06/2008 - 20:54 #1

The other variation would be to offer only extra benefits for a promotion, but not tell you that you are actually responsible for significant chunks of tax for it. You actually end up worse off financially because of it.

Posted on: Thu, 11/06/2008 - 23:44 #2

These examples are really bad mainly because the actions are practised on people who you know , by people who trust. Should be textbook DE-motivation examples.

Posted on: Fri, 11/07/2008 - 16:41 #3

What a screwed up story. I wonder how much more we never know about unless we do some type of mad detective work for the place we work at.

Posted on: Fri, 11/07/2008 - 16:49 #4

Can most places really be that bad and that ugly on the inside to hold back info and then tell you that its your fault for not knowing?

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