Work: Price Cut? Stay or Leave?

[RSX JDM Integra]

Alright, just curious. If you were working a job (part/full) and were cut down by $1 an hour. Would you quit or stay?

In my past experience, NO ONE has ever done or even thought about doing this. I find this VERY unprofessional and I am about to quit. How I see it, it's not hard to find a job. But for someone else's business, it's not that easy to find a worker, but that's not even the point. It's hard to find a faithful and good worker.

 

[ACooper]

Honestly, if they thought that little of me to cut my pay, I would be pounding the pavement at every opportunity, and as soon as I had another job secured..........I would be OUTTA THERE!

I think there could possibly be circumstances that MIGHT get me to stay, and if my employer was heart felt, and explained them to me.........I **might** be inclined to see his/her side of things.

 

[sparks19]

Honestly, if they thought that little of me to cut my pay, I would be pounding the pavement at every opportunity, and as soon as I had another job secured..........I would be OUTTA THERE!

I think there could possibly be circumstances that MIGHT get me to stay, and if my employer was heart felt, and explained them to me.........I **might** be inclined to see his/her side of things.

AGREED!!!!!

 

[RedHotDobe]

I agree with ACooper.

How long have you been working there and why was there a pay cut?

 

[RSX JDM Integra]

Honestly, if they thought that little of me to cut my pay, I would be pounding the pavement at every opportunity, and as soon as I had another job secured..........I would be OUTTA THERE!

I think there could possibly be circumstances that MIGHT get me to stay, and if my employer was heart felt, and explained them to me.........I **might** be inclined to see his/her side of things.

Actually. His reasoning is rather stupid. I can do two types of jobs for him. I can work up front or filling customer's needs.

People who work 100% up front did not get their pay cut.

People who can work the two jobs such as up front OR tending to customer care/needs got the cut ONLY when working up front.

The reason why is because customer care/support and up-front were paid the same and up-front is way easier to do than customer/care and support. So when people were needed to fill an open spot for customer care on a Friday or Saturday, nobody would do it, but for an up-front position, everyone would. So he decided to cut people who decided to fill for that up-front position because he thought it was unfair to the customer care people.

It's unfair to me because I work on a Friday anyways so it's not like I was trying to take advantage of a job position and he still cut me. Other people that were not customer care and worked up front did not get cut. About a good 3 people got their price cuts and the people who generally work up-front are on vacation so he desperately needs us and this is what he does. The only people who can work up-front for temporarily would be customer care and he cut us by $1 an hour.

I'm thinking of leaving because that is purely BS!

I agree with ACooper.

How long have you been working there and why was there a pay cut?

For 6 months and I've worked very hard for him. He moved me to temp. up-front in-case he needed people to be up-front and now that he needs me I don't want to do it because of his cheap pay. On the weekends it is 7.50 an hour but you work an extra hour shift. On weekdays it is 8 an hour but one less hour of a shift compared to weekends. What an idiotic way of paying someone's salary.

 

[Renee750il]

I always figure that when there's a pay cut it's a leverage to try to get people to quit.

 

[Buckshot]

One of the best employers I ever worked for had to cut wages to keep the doors open. I wasnt thrilled with it and I left. As it turned out I screwed myself over royally. It would have put me in a position to double my income if I had stuck it out.

I guess it depends on how much you like the job and the employer. I would never ever let a dollar an hour come between me and a job/employer that I liked. On the other hand, if I didnt like them, just the threat of pay cut would send me packing.

 

[Denaluvscorgis]

I think that it really depends. I work at a hospital, and a few years ago we all got a pay cut because of hard financial times that the hopital was having. It was about 2.50 for me...they did it by a percentage. It was that way for about 3 months. After that period of time, were given the previous wage, plus retro pay for the 3 months we had to take the pay cut.

 

[joce]

My bfs old boss(note old boss) did this to him but his reasoning was he wanted to open a second store and had to cut cost. so not only was he taking a pay cut but also working the counter,installing and still going to competitions etc. If he ever would have given him a raise as soon as the next store caught on it would have been fine but instead he hired more people who did less work-so he quit. So long story short quit

 

[RSX JDM Integra]

See the problem is he is doing this as punishment for the whole customer care employees even though I'm not the one to be punished. He wants it to be "fair". And I don't see how it is fair to punish those that do follow your rules. Just fire the ones that you don't like and don't penalize others that work hard for you is how I would approach it.

As an employee and with my other co-workers we are about to leave at the same time to send him a message.

 

[Buckshot]

Thats a whole different deal there. If I was getting a pay cut as punishment for something someone else did, I would be long gone. I have found that a work place exodus usually means I leave alone.

 

[Renee750il]

Thats a whole different deal there. If I was getting a pay cut as punishment for something someone else did, I would be long gone. I have found that a work place exodus usually means I leave alone.

Ain't THAT the truth . . . .