beanie1433
Junior Member
Please help. I need advise asap. I will try to make this
short as possible. I just started a new job on Monday
April 5. Today was only my 4th day on the job. When I
interviewed and on my application it shows that I do not
have any direct experience for the position. During my
working interview last week, the hiring manager said she
was very impressed with my initiative and how I assist the
other co-workers. The decision at that point was to be
made by the workers that I was shadowing. They gave their
recommendation and I was hired. I was advised it was
okay about the lack of experience and I will be in a
training position for a minimum of 90 days and be re-
evaluated at that time. I signed a paper showing my wages
will be $12.00 per hour. Well, when the office staff is
short, the manager who hired me usually steps in to help.
She handed me and another new employee a comprehensive and
complicated lab test to perform on some blood work. Her
directions were to read the directions, perform the tests
and present her with the results. There is only one
person in the office trained to perform this test. We
did not feel comfy with our results and when we presented
the information to the worker who usually does the tests.
She was outraged and confronted the hiring manager, who in
turn was very offended. She accused me of questioning her
integrity and ability to read and interpret the results.
She called me in a meeting to hear my side of the story
where I explained that was not the case, that I was
questioning my ability to produce the correct results for
her to read being that I was new and had difficulties with
the tests. She then proceeded to tell me that based on my
performance in the last 4 days that she could not justify
to the owners paying me $12.00 per hour and that starting
tomorrow that I will now be paid $9.50 per hour and it is
out of her hands and she expected me to quit and walk
out. She tried to justify the decrease in pay by saying
that its because of my lack of experience and lack of
initiative that is causing this. First, she was aware of
my lack of experience when she hired me and second, she
hired me because of my strong initiative. Can she just
drop my pay like that? Its clearly based on retaliation
because she thinks I have questioned her judgment. Sorry
so choppy and lengthy.
short as possible. I just started a new job on Monday
April 5. Today was only my 4th day on the job. When I
interviewed and on my application it shows that I do not
have any direct experience for the position. During my
working interview last week, the hiring manager said she
was very impressed with my initiative and how I assist the
other co-workers. The decision at that point was to be
made by the workers that I was shadowing. They gave their
recommendation and I was hired. I was advised it was
okay about the lack of experience and I will be in a
training position for a minimum of 90 days and be re-
evaluated at that time. I signed a paper showing my wages
will be $12.00 per hour. Well, when the office staff is
short, the manager who hired me usually steps in to help.
She handed me and another new employee a comprehensive and
complicated lab test to perform on some blood work. Her
directions were to read the directions, perform the tests
and present her with the results. There is only one
person in the office trained to perform this test. We
did not feel comfy with our results and when we presented
the information to the worker who usually does the tests.
She was outraged and confronted the hiring manager, who in
turn was very offended. She accused me of questioning her
integrity and ability to read and interpret the results.
She called me in a meeting to hear my side of the story
where I explained that was not the case, that I was
questioning my ability to produce the correct results for
her to read being that I was new and had difficulties with
the tests. She then proceeded to tell me that based on my
performance in the last 4 days that she could not justify
to the owners paying me $12.00 per hour and that starting
tomorrow that I will now be paid $9.50 per hour and it is
out of her hands and she expected me to quit and walk
out. She tried to justify the decrease in pay by saying
that its because of my lack of experience and lack of
initiative that is causing this. First, she was aware of
my lack of experience when she hired me and second, she
hired me because of my strong initiative. Can she just
drop my pay like that? Its clearly based on retaliation
because she thinks I have questioned her judgment. Sorry
so choppy and lengthy.
