Another Raise??? Hubs work updates

So earlier in the month, Hubs requested we buy some things for his work... (we still own them, if he were to quit, he'd take them back home) but he wanted to make his work space a bit more efficient since their store has been running under staffed for some time as employees choose to leave and retire.

If you remember way way way back, we have two spare monitors. We sent one to Utah so when we go out to hang for the holidays, he can still game with his brothers... but we have been storing another one in our house that doesn't have a mount. Hubs really wanted a dual monitor set up at work and it isn't a high priority for their store since they have a staffing issue... so we bought a "mount" for it and hubs brought it into work. His boss didn't say anything as he set it up, but it has helped him a lot with his new duties at work as the pseudo ordering manager.

The other day when he was working, his boss was stressing because they had to order a complicated line of products and he thought he would need to do it himself... but Hubs had already started it and surprised his boss 45 minutes later when he walked into the office and ask what special order items he wanted to add to the order... his response was "your already done with it???" -- a task like that took the old project manager 5 hours... he did it in an hour and a half.

So, we set him up with a dual monitor at work since he's now doing a bulk of the store ordering and it makes him happier at work...

He also wanted a new keyboard. We have a new one at home that lights up when you press buttons, but it's also one of those "old school" ones where the keys make a taping sound when you press one (he got one with a sound dampener so he's not annoying at work), because he wanted to type on one type of system at both work and home... and it makes him happier at work...

Needless to say, work hasn't been all that happy as their store has been under staffed for a while, but hubs is picking up the slack in a HUGE way... but his boss is starting to look at him like his 2nd in command and that's an amazing thing.

Next week is profit share where they normally sit down and do annual performance updates, etc... his boss told him yesterday that he put in for him to get another raise now that his co-worker retired and isn't on the books anymore... but we will see what happens. He didn't mention how much of a raise he put in for hubs, but Hubs isn't even getting paid what he should be getting as lead inside sales... let alone purchase manager....

Hubs has a figure in mind that his boss needs to pay him... so we will see what happens there....  but profit share is coming. Apparently, it will be very similar to last year since they still have to pay the guy who retired his share (and as the old purchase manager he would receive a larger chunk of the profit share check.) But someone just quit yesterday, and they just hired a warehouse guy so those employees won't be receiving checks because they weren't at the store a whole year.

RAISE!!! He got a Raise!!!

I know the blog title gives this post away, but back in October or November, South County Boy went into his bosses office to ask for a raise...


Apparently when he talked to his boss, it was the perfect time to discuss it because his boss needed to give financial projections to the corporate end of the business for the next year... so if he was going to give him a raise or even consider it, South County Boy sure timed talking about it at the right moment. Now his company doesn't give annual raises at all because they do profit sharing instead if the company has profits... but since South County Boy was hired originally as a driver and since then has done more warehouse and now sales work, he's become far more valuable...

Right now since they fired their old driver, he's technically doing 2 jobs and working his tail off at $11 an hour...

He wasn't going to talk to his boss until February, but he had a feeling or a prompting and so he talked with his boss out of the blue about it when the timing was actually perfect. While his boss understood our predicament (it looked like daycare would cost us more than his take home pay each month so we were possibly considering him being a stay at home dad)... he couldn't make any promises but appreciated the open discussion.

We hadn't heard anything since then... and SCB wasn't going to talk to his boss until early March to see if there was an update...

But this week he was called into his bosses office...

and told he got a raise...

a big one...

22.7% more.... 

because he thought to ask his boss for it.

He now gets $13.50 an hour... and we are feeling so incredibly blessed because this will provide a nice chunk of change for us each month and it makes us feel like we have options for our budget and not just worst case scenarios...

On top of that, South County Boy can keep his job with all the perks that come from it. (Like staying in the workforce... earning 401k contributions, giving us a second option for health insurance, getting profit share checks... and helping to pay for things other than daycare like diapers and wipes)...

It is really satisfying for me to know that my husband feels he significantly helps provide for his family. SCB has always been bummed that he doesn't make that much money, or that I make more than he does.... but with this raise he actually feels like he is helping to take care of his son and his family and that means so much to me. I can tell him how much he contributes and how valuable he is as an earner to our family, but if he doesn't believe it, I can't make him... and its so wonderful to know how much this means to him.

He got a raise!

SCB got a raise at work! 

Woot! Woot! 

When he was first hired at his job, they started him out at $10.50 and promised him they would review his compensation after he had been working there 3 months to see if he was a good fit for the company... and they kept good on their word.

They sat down and gave him a raise!

He's now getting $11.00 an hour, or a 4.76% raise.

I'm really excited for SCB since this is not only his first "real" (as he calls it) non-minimum wage job, but its also its first raise too!

With our new plan to save his entire income in 2014, this will help us grow our savings even more.

**Happy Dance**