holy moly!
i just received a significant raise out of almost nowhere!
7%!
I think it's because someone in HR had an epic fail and sent an email to me by mistake which was meant for another HR person named laura in the company. The email, which she called an "unfortunate mistake", detailed out my position and what the average compensation for that position is. We are looking to hire someone else which was why this email was being sent in the first place. Anyways, this "unfortunate" email showed that i was making about $3,500 less than the average production artist would make!
OK, when i saw this i was LIVID.
LIVID!
$3,500 is SIGNIFICANT!
So, i replied in a professional manner to the HR person and my immediate supervisor "i believe this email was not intended for me but if what it says is true there may be an issue that needs to be discussed..."
HA - within 30 seconds of me hitting send my supervisor came over babbling nonsensically and saying quote unquote "this is up to HR to extricate themselves from."
30 seconds after that i was called into the HR office!
I could tell by the terrified look on her face this was a huge mistake and she was trying to tap dance all around the subject telling me that this was a general number and she had to do more research blah blah blah
I left the office a little appeased but also a little disgruntled.
I have been working my ASS of this month for the company - coming in every weekend and working 50 hour work weeks. I have been told by several people i work with that the August campaign we've been trying to get out the door would've completely crashed and burned without not only my hard extra work but my knowledge and expertise. I am the only one in the company who could do it etc
But, last night i went home and just pushed it out of my mind. Like i do with anything work related at night.
So today i came to work and all of the sudden HR lady called me around 1pm and wanted me to come to her office yet again. And she again said that it was really unfortunate that i had seen that email but all my hard work has not gone unnoticed and they will be bumping up my pay to the amount I saw in the email. WOWIE WOW WOW. I was floored. But could see the backpeddliing going on. But you know what?
Jimmy cracked corn and i don't care!
Becaise if my calculations are correct I'm going to be able to just pay my mortgage now in 2 weeks!