I’ve been working at my current place of work since summer 2017, I left college after junior year for this job since it was so promising, and it’s been good.
In late summer or early fall, I was told I was up for a promotion to a new division, with a rather large raise. My boss said he’d give his full recommendation, however he told me I should finish my degree first, as he told me I might miss out on the promotion due to my not having finished college, and that my progress in this career could stagnate.
Not a problem, I only had a few credits left. My boss set me up in a different division, which had slightly lower pay, but was far less intense so that I could focus on finishing my degree with night school and online courses.
This is when I started working for Jane. Really nice lady, has been a great boss, and has been talking excitedly about my promotion for months ever since I started working for her. I’m now just short of two months away from finishing my last credits, which I mentioned to Jane a few weeks ago and she told me she’d get right on facilitating my move to the division I was supposed to be moving to in the first place. However, she’s also been talking a lot about how much she’d love for me to stay in my current division. Which is flattering, but I cannot keep working for this level of pay. I know they’re short-staffed, but I have to think of my student debt and rent, among other things.
I hadn’t heard anything in a while, so I asked Jane if there was any news, to which she told me there was some paperwork I needed to fill out for my promotion that she forgot to tell me about. She gave me the paperwork, which appeared to include an application for my current division. She told me to ignore that as it’s just what they had on hand and doesn’t mean anything. There were also a number of items in the paperwork I didn’t have the information required to fill out, when I would ask Jane, she would take a long time to respond to my emails, and when I asked in person she’d tell me that she’d get to it later. Weirdly, she’d also continue to tell me I was running out of time on the paperwork, without addressing my questions.
After I finally got all of the paperwork filled out with some help from other employees, I told Jane, and she told me to go ahead and fax it to Mike. I’ll explain Mike in a moment, but when I told Jane I didn’t have Mike’s work contact info and asked if she could fax it instead, she told me she wasn’t able to as it would be a conflict of interest. Now, I know Mike, and I don’t think Jane knows that I know Mike, but Mike is a former president of my brother’s frat, and my brother had previously informed me that Mike works at the same company as me. What does Mike do? He conducts all the job interviews for the exact division I’m currently in. To my knowledge, Mike does not do hiring for any other divisions.
I raised this concern with Jane, and she told me not to worry, as the person who does hiring for the division I’m supposed to be promoted to is just out of the office for the next two weeks so Mike is taking care of it.
Now, there could be nothing wrong at all here, but my gut tells me that something is fishy. I’m honestly concerned that Jane is trying to trick me to stay longer in my current division, maybe for an extra $5K a year or something, and then when the position I’m after closes, I’ll be stuck here. I’ll be honest, out of my whole division, it’s maybe me and 3 other guys responsible for all the productivity, and I think Jane could be worried about being held responsible for a big productivity drop if I leave.
I really don’t want to leave my company, I love it here, and they’ve generally been so good to me. I don’t know if there’s anywhere else in my field I could go that would have the benefits I’m afforded here, and if I lost those it would be a huge expense. I also don’t think that I’d be eligible for the kind of promotion I’ve been promised anywhere else if I left. I’m not really seeing any other options though.
Sorry for the long post, any help is appreciated.
TL;DR: Was told I’d get a promotion and a large raise if I went back to school and finished the last bit of my degree, took a pay-cut in a new division so I could finish college with the promise I’d get the promotion in the spring. New boss has been exhibiting behaviour that makes it seem like she’s trying to delay my move until the position closes so that I end up stuck here, in order to keep productivity levels acceptable in the struggling division.
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