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Input: Text: hi tifu, first post here and first time using a throwaway. it's not a nsfw post but my regular account is subbed to local subs so just in case anyone i know had caught into my username...

anyway, i've been working a temporary position the past three months. not making terrible money, but definitely making less than i should be. i'm new to the field, but it is perfectly suited to me and i have all the skills necessary to make it work in the long run. they've given me tons of on the job training, i've found close to half a million dollars worth of inventory the company thought was lost because i'm so damn good at the details.

i love what i was doing, and i was going to be moving into a position that would require more than regular full time hours. i was not only learning new things every day, but applying them to my daily tasks, taking on more responsibilities, and turning what i learned around and teaching my tips and tricks to people who had been with the company longer. it was great. i was working domestically and internationally. i had been put in charge of many things and my new role would have, with any other company, been a lower to middle management position.

i was told less than a month into my temporary position that they wanted to keep me permanently, but i had to ride out the contract. no problem, i say, i'll keep showing up as long as i keep getting paid. we'll work out the details later.  so the time comes for me to become a permanent employee. i'm three days off my temp contract before they get me an offer letter. i had been advised that it would probably be low and that i should negotiate. i had done tons of research that told me what was on my offer was the lowest of low ball offers for this type of position, and is usually reserved for someone with absolutely zero experience, probably an associates degree or less (i have a bachelor's and they'd already trained me for three months and proved i can do any and everything they throw at me), and that most likely i should be making a bit more. this isn't the the type of company that has a typical management hierarchy. you are really your own manager. there's no ladder to climb, so as you can imagine i feel like i need to ask for a little bit more knowing that i probably won't have a raise for a while.

all the research i did told me that *it never hurts to ask for more than you would expect, the worst they can do is tell you their offer is firm or meet you somewhere in the middle*.

guess what happened? i got pulled into the conference room, told that they were not accepting my counter offer and that they had decided to end my contract. being completely sidelined, i had nothing to say, felt like i had no chance to ask i'd their original offer was still on the table, nada. what they offered me was going to make my take-home pay less than it was as a 45-hour-per-week temp.

i have spent the past two days getting calls, emails, texts, etc from both my local and international teams asking me if a) i'm ok, and b) why i quit. apparently hr and the woman who was my biggest mentor and one of my biggest advocates there have told the whole office that i quit.

i want given an option. i didn't quit. if they had taken a slightly different approach and come to me as a discussion, i wouldn't have left. this whole situation is a mess and i'm angry with them. i've been thinking about writing a "thanks for the opportunity, but i am really disappointed in how this was handled" letter but i've been trying to talk myself out of it. i really liked it there. 

the worst part is they let me go with the insult that i should go find an hourly position and start over.

sorry that was long winded. i needed to politely rant.

 

edit: thanks for the support. i'm going to make my letter-writing decision in the morning and i'll keep you posted! shitty party about the job market here is that i could go a while without putting my amazing skills to use!

update: former employer has shorted about 20 hours off my last paycheck. my state has no overtime laws but as a temp, i got overtime over 40 hours. for this check (the only one i will get from the company) they decided to split my salaried rate into hourly. since there was never any discussion of this, i feel like i have the right to ask for overtime compensation. my first paycheck also started mid-week, after i had already put in 40 hours on the temp salary before they started paying. i don't know if i am able to ask for those hours to be overtime-compensated. i'm not looking to be greedy, just properly compensated for my time. i'm hoping it would have been cheaper for them to pay my salaried wage - that way they fucked themselves over.

TIFU by trying to negotiate a job offer