HELP for DH PLEASE!

Frank = DH

ok, so frank's manager/boss at work has been trying to speak to him for like 3 weeks, but she is basically scared and keeps telling him she has to talk to him, but she never does. frank goes in there every so often during the week to say hi, you wanted to talk to me and she is like yeah i know... and then she doesn't ask him again for another week.

now this all stems from the fact that she is supposed to dispatch the work every other saturday and this other guy, sal, does it the saturdays she is not there. however, she doesn't want to work on saturday and since she is the head manager she never had to because she had another guy do it for her. however, they recently fired this guy who was doing the work for her so now she has to do it. but she still doesn't want to, so for the past few weeks she has had odd people fill in for her and do it.

now she wants frank to work every other saturday. when he has to work on sturday, he will get monday off. they want to offer him another $5K a year and if he has time, he can still do his regular job when he has to dispatch to make more money during the day (which is hard to do because you can't really do both at the same time)
frank told her he has to think about it and will get back to her by the end of today. personally, i think $5K extra a year is not enought to give up every other saturday a month and i told him to ask for more money (which was the first thing he said to her anyway, he told her he was making over $100K at honda (Frank is a tech at a dealership in NYC and he used to work for Honda, but they closed suddenly in Nov. 2009 and everyone had to scramble to find new jobs. He now works at Acura after they asked him to come work for him - Frank does not care for this company but is staying because of the way the economy is right now)and that when he started here, he took a pay cut and he wants to get back to that, so that extra $5K a year wouldn't bring him up to what he was making before. I told him to ask for an increase in his hourly pay and to ask for at least another $20K a year. That way, even if they don't give him the $20K, they might give him the 15 or 10K - that's even if he wants to do it because he HATES working on saturdays and i don't blame him.

what do you think? would you take what they are offering? would you just continue doing what your doing? either way, he will still have a job and no one will nag him about not doing it (i don't think )

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personally, I agree with you. 5k is not worth me working weekends. If he can get back to where he was, then maybe I could consider, but def not for 5k.

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Posted by itbroi805

personally, I agree with you. 5k is not worth me working weekends. If he can get back to where he was, then maybe I could consider, but def not for 5k.

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i agree. i think personal time and the whole work life balance thing is way more important than 5K. I mean, if you take the $5K/26 weeks less taxes, that quantifies to nothing. def not worth it. plus, that means you lose 1 weekend day with him.

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Posted by evita2781

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Posted by itbroi805

personally, I agree with you. 5k is not worth me working weekends. If he can get back to where he was, then maybe I could consider, but def not for 5k.

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i agree. i think personal time and the whole work life balance thing is way more important than 5K. I mean, if you take the $5K/26 weeks less taxes, that quantifies to nothing. def not worth it. plus, that means you lose 1 weekend day with him.

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I agree with everyone. Tell him to bring his offer to the table, and he's willing to negotiate, but he is not willing to settle for an extra $5k.

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I agree as well. 5K is not worth giving up every other saturday, ESPECIALLY if he hates working on the weekends. It'd be one thing if he didn't really mind it but 5k for a miserable or grumpy husband is not worth it Imo!

consider it their 'first offer' and counteroffer with one of your own.

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i would definitely counteroffer with 10 or 15k and hopefulyl they'll meet in the middle

but did i read that wrong or is it that if he works saturday he gets monday off? it's not actually working any additional time then, just getting paid the extra $$ for the inconvenience of working on a weekend day, right?

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Posted by leesah85

i would definitely counteroffer with 10 or 15k and hopefulyl they'll meet in the middle

but did i read that wrong or is it that if he works saturday he gets monday off? it's not actually working any additional time then, just getting paid the extra $$ for the inconvenience of working on a weekend day, right?

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he would be working on Saturdays every other weekend and when he works on Saturday he would have Monday off.
However, the job that he does every day is not the same job he wouls be doing those Saturdays where he has to work.

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Posted by Moonmist09

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Posted by leesah85

i would definitely counteroffer with 10 or 15k and hopefulyl they'll meet in the middle

but did i read that wrong or is it that if he works saturday he gets monday off? it's not actually working any additional time then, just getting paid the extra $$ for the inconvenience of working on a weekend day, right?

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he would be working on Saturdays every other weekend and when he works on Saturday he would have Monday off.
However, the job that he does every day is not the same job he wouls be doing those Saturdays where he has to work.

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oooohhh i get it now. yeah, i would definitely try to counteroffer, but unfortunately unless he has something else on the horizon (e.g. another job lined up), it seems like they're giving him a take it or leave it scenario

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he should definitely ask for me...5k isnt worth it.
they cant fire him bc he said no to the saturday hours since its not part of his normal job so worst case, he asks and they say no and then he continues his normal mon - fri job...win win situation
good luck! i hope he gets more $$$$

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Actually, he wasn't offered this position as a take it or leave it altimatum. He's actually their star employee and they love him there because he is the only employee who actually makes the 'time' that they want and they encourage others to do the same. They have no reason to fire him because he hasn't done anything wrong. They just know he is good at what he does and want him to do this too because he has done it before to cover for some folks when they were in a bind and now they want to make it a full time thing.

I told Frank the same thing, only take it if they sufficiently compensate you for your time. I'll guess we'll find out more as time goes on!

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i would def ask for more than 5k
the worst that could happen is they say no!

and no i would not do it for 5k/year!
i would want overtime pay for that saturday, can you calculate what the overtime rate would be for the shift and figure out what that works out to a year?
(if he is hourly pay obvi thats the only way the numbers would work lol)
at my job we have to work one saturday overnight a month and i only agreed to do it if it was overtime pay and they agreed so its worth a try!