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Old 02-17-2012, 02:28 PM   Topic Starter
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Am I getting screwed at my job?
I have worked at an awards shop since 2002. My father is the GM who runs the place, but the owners are a couple of old investors that are hands-off. My job is to design every award that comes through the door, and we do everything from trophies, plaques, glass and acrylic awards, medals, ribbons, t-shirts, hats, custom engravings, you name it. I use two laser engravers and a sublimation printer. I use CorelDraw and Photoshop for everything. A lot of times I have to design artwork for lazy customers who can't get us something usable. I have a very very good record of not screwing things up, which is easy to do.

I started at 8.50 an hour and I now make 13.50. I haven't had a raise in 2 and a half years, and it was a dollar raise. We probably do between 3,000-6,000 dollars per day in business. We only have about 7 employees currently. I was told this past Christmas that the owners weren't giving Christmas bonuses. I usually have gotten like 150 bucks or so every Christmas. We had a pretty good year...

Every time I rarely, politely ask for a raise I'm told by the owners or my father that I should be happy with what I make, and if I want more money I should help the company make more money...should I get the hell outta here?
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:29 PM   #2
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Old 02-17-2012, 07:56 PM   #3
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Then to find out they wont even give a small Christmas bonus? those guys need a visit from a Beastly, BULGING man like Cousin Eddie.
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:30 PM   #4
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I have worked at an awards shop since 2002. My father is the GM who runs the place, but the owners are a couple of old investors that are hands-off. My job is to design every award that comes through the door, and we do everything from trophies, plaques, glass and acrylic awards, medals, ribbons, t-shirts, hats, custom engravings, you name it. I use two laser engravers and a sublimation printer. I use CorelDraw and Photoshop for everything. A lot of times I have to design artwork for lazy customers who can't get us something usable. I have a very very good record of not screwing things up, which is easy to do.

I started at 8.50 an hour and I now make 13.50. I haven't had a raise in 2 and a half years, and it was a dollar raise. We probably do between 3,000-6,000 dollars per day in business. We only have about 7 employees currently. I was told this past Christmas that the owners weren't giving Christmas bonuses. I usually have gotten like 150 bucks or so every Christmas. We had a pretty good year...

Every time I rarely, politely ask for a raise I'm told by the owners or my father that I should be happy with what I make, and if I want more money I should help the company make more money...should I get the hell outta here?
I would certainly be exploring my options.
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:30 PM   #5
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:30 PM   #6
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:52 PM   #8
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:31 PM   #9
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:33 PM   #10
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Do you have any education?
I'm currently taking college classes at night trying to complete my Associates in Fire Science. I was wanting to be a firefighter or something related to the fire protection industry, but now...I just don't know. I'm over halfway done.

I do have over 10 years experience doing what I do, but I just don't know what's out there involving what I've been doing.
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Old 02-17-2012, 05:31 PM   #11
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I'm currently taking college classes at night trying to complete my Associates in Fire Science. I was wanting to be a firefighter or something related to the fire protection industry, but now...I just don't know. I'm over halfway done.

I do have over 10 years experience doing what I do, but I just don't know what's out there involving what I've been doing.
Screwed would be putting it mildly.

You could easily do free lance work for tech companies or your self doing design work for websites and graphic ads. EASILY make $25-50 per hour. Use Craigllist or many of the freelance boards

Also you need to learn Flash and other higher end programs
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:33 PM   #12
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$13.50/hr is probably pretty good for Tulsa.

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Old 02-17-2012, 02:34 PM   #13
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It sounds like you and your dad know how to run a place like that and you would probably be better served to break off from the owners and start your own place.
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:35 PM   #14
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It sounds like you and your dad know how to run a place like that and you would probably be better served to break off from the owners and start your own place.
My dad has been wanting to buy the place, but he just has awful awful credit and he only makes about 50-60k himself.
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Old 02-17-2012, 02:42 PM   #15
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My dad has been wanting to buy the place, but he just has awful awful credit and he only makes about 50-60k himself.
I cant imagine the startup costs could be all that much, any idea what it would take?
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