#I’m pretttyyyy sure 50k is like the cap of our pay scale

[winemom-culture]

Two Tuesdays ago I went to my boss’s office and asked to talk about pay again, since it’s been more than the 30 days she initially gave me to ease into my new role. She said sure, put a meeting on her calendar for the following Tuesday and we’d talk. I thought that was kinda bizarre but I heard her on a call after I left the office that day and figured she just had another meeting.

So I scheduled the meeting, and last week went in there at our time again and the whole thing was literally all of five minutes. I asked her for something that I knew was unrealistically high, hoping to settle at something more reasonable in the middle as I’ve heard one should in these convos. With my crazy request I did also let her know I’d be willing to take on more work, more stores- whatever they needed. My workload has been pretty manageable. She said she didn’t have stores to give me right away, but she might be able to tag me into special projects of hers for some struggling stores. In terms of pay, said she thinks she could get me there but not right off the bat, that she wouldn’t want to put me on the “high end of the pay scale” right away bc then there’s no room for growth. Fine, that’s expected. But then she said she would email me a new formal written offer with something in the middle after looking into where I am right now. Didn’t ballpark a figure face to face, or tell me when exactly to expect that.

I went through the rest of last week and didn’t hear anything. Which I kinnnnda figured, but I hoped would be different. We have a huge campaign going on rn so she’s busy, plus there are a lot of levels above her in terms of the CFO and HR she has to go through. My parents have told me to calm down and that she’s probably just gotta get approval from her boss before she offers me anything. Which is in line with what she said that day.

But idk, the sale ends in two days and if I go through another week without hearing, or getting a “still working on it” nudge at the very least, I literally don’t know what to do at this point. Like groveling on my knees three times for what I’m pretty certain will be a <$3k raise almost feels worse than going without lol.

I hate how much it’s making me start to think about looking around. I love this job otherwise, it gives me a lot of flexibility and I’m trying to keep that perspective, like I am definitely making a decent wage for the amount of work I do and free time I honestly get on the clock. I want to be stable here, and I didn’t want to go job shopping again until I can just say “I’m done with a degree, and have 2 years of experience.” But I’m just worried I’m getting the runaround.