TL;DR: I was hired as a receptionist, with hopes to be promoted. After a year on the position, I was promoted. Now they are losing the new receptionist, and want to bring me back to my old position, but with a deal that it's not a "demotion", and they'll bring me back up later.
This story is long, but there's a lot of elements to it that make it easier to answer than without those details. My question for you guys is on the bottom. Thanks for reading.
I work in an industry that allows a lot of growth for people who start at the front desk. Which is why, after graduating with a Bachelors degree, I took the position as a receptionist last spring at a family-owned company of about 40-or so people. Because I had hopes to receive a promotion one day, I worked this position with a positive attitude, offering to help take on any extra tasks asked of me, and continued to perform my position as a receptionist as well.
This eagerness to help out allowed me to fall into a roll which could otherwise be seen as a new position in itself. However, I was still tied down to the front desk - where I would have to welcome clients, get their lunches, answer the phone, etc. That was fine. Then, summer of 2018, things started getting busy. Seniors started asking management to hire on new project managers, AND to promote me as well. At long last, after being in my receptionist position for a year and 3 months, I was promoted to project management.
Now, let me give you some background on who the "management" is.
First off, there's no HR department. Typical of a small company.. I think. The company is owned by 2 people who partnered up years ago. One of these owners has a son, around mid-40s, and he was brought in years ago to do "management/ownership/director of operations/kind of HR" work as well. Let's call him "Ku" from now on. It is a pretty well known fact that this company would thrive without Ku's presence. Nobody knows what he really does. Always flaky. Calling in 'sick' (he controls the PTO, and will mark PTO for himself, but then delete it later). Really an unreliable person. He's lived his whole life under a wealthy father, not really needing to worry about responsibility. Maybe apart of his lack of work is because he has to report to his dad, which may stunt his inspiration to do anything proactive. I really don't know. I could go on about this guy, it's kinda hilarious..
Example of his dedication to the "HR" role: There is a person who has been here for 13 years, and they have received 3 reviews & upgrades in their payscale. Um... I know every company does it differently, but shouldn't people get a review at least every couple of years?!
Anyways, I got this promotion right. After being here as a receptionist for 1 year and 3 months. (Still hadn't gotten my first year review, since excuses from Ku kept coming up to allow him to avoid it). It took a month of me in this new position for me to meet with Ku to discuss a pay raise. And after receiving 5 paychecks at my rate as a receptionist, I was finally given a raise. However, no back pay. He promised me a contract to sign. I still have yet to get this contract. It has been 4 months. Did I mention that part of my promotion was that I had to find someone to fill my position as receptionist?
Now, at this point, I'm okay with what has happened. I've gotten a promotion quicker than what is common (many people have congratulated me on being able to move up, since Ku is so well-known to be unreliable with that stuff). I will use the experience in this new position to get a better job elsewhere. I have no affinity to management here, because I find them unreliable. So I'm just gonna keep doing my thing until I gain some experience, then move elsewhere.
Now. The new receptionist did great - but now has a job offer elsewhere (she is in a different industry than me). So she's leaving tomorrow.
We are a lot less busy now, so ownership is not excited to hire on new people. In the meantime, we have had two people leave by their own accord in the last month. After the current receptionist leaves, it will be three less people to pay. Well, they don't want to hire a new receptionist. They want me to go back down there, but are trying to work out a deal to promise that they will find someone new come January.
I truly do not trust Ku's ability to maintain a deal. It took a month and a half for him to take the time out of his mysterious schedule to meet with me about my promotion. I want to help because I respect the people not tied to the ownership, and they would suffer if I bailed. These people are the reason Ku finally promoted me, and I feel like I would seem unappreciative. What I'm doing right now is reaching out to other agencies in hopes that I can use my experience & personality (lol) to get a new job.
So my question is... Do I ask for an incentive, or what?! How do I ask "What's in it for me"? Or should I just jump ship? I'm not sure about leaving unless I have an offer elsewhere, but I want to hear everyone's opinions.
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