Everyone is replaceable but at a certain cost. I work a position at a job that would be hard to replace. Not impossible but not easy. I used to be the only employee and have carried half of the business on my shoulders. The owner is a cuck, and everyone we've hired is a fucking liberal. I am about to graduate with an engineering degree and start applying elsewhere. I don't have the best work ethic because I've always worked for a mom and pop shop and am an idiot. I've gone from helping carry the business across the finish line to being the odd man out now. I want blood. My goal is to threaten to leave and risk the reference for a pay raise or just keep my head down and sacrifice a year after graduation for perfect attendance and never being late to brainwash the guy so he cant trash my reference with recent history. We are talking about hiring a new guy to do my job because I am in school fulltime and cant handle the work myself. Well we are going into the off season now and I can handle the work. Once we go back into the on season I can handle the work since I wont have to focus on school. What should I do?
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Create a portfolio of your work. Examples of drawings, specifications you've written, and jobs you've been a part of. Gather anything that shows your engineering chops, but be careful to censor anything confidential. These materials will supplement your resume since you won't have a lot of work experience in the field, but it will show your desire to do engineering work to go along with your commitment to finish your education. If you don't need the job, it won't hurt to go for the raise. But seriously, look at moving on. Your current employer cannot legally disparage you to potential future employers. If they do, you sue and win, and they know that.
Good point. Thanks!
The part about "threaten to leave" seems like it's going to cause you problems. It's fine to explain that you're busy with school or whatever. But I think you'd be much better off making the boss think that you're committed, until you have something else lined up.
Great suggestions in other comments here, take on more workload, get a portfolio together, charge consulting fees for anything they need afterward. Write a resume' now, before you quit, with a list of achievements, "improved", "created", "designed", "solved" type of things. Always looks better if the most recent job experience is e.g. "2016 to current".
2nd option. Get the reference. If you really really wanna fuck them and what you are saying is true then take on more workload and responsibilies so when you are gone you have a better reference and they are a ship without a Captain
Depends how much you need the money. If you cant trust he would give you a reference, quit. Also is the job pertinent to what youre studying? If you are gonna ask for a raise, record the conversation. Sounds like you need to work on your social skills aswell, eh goodluck.
I'm not the best employee because I know I cant get away with whatever because I work for mom and pop shops. However, I've been lucky enough to find a plant recently that has a few blocks missing on how it works that I can solve for society so I'm hoping that me solving it shows my commitment to doing a good job.
If you are graduating with an engineering degree (mechanical/electrical), they should more interested in your engineering abilities. I'm an engineer, there are other engineers in my family and the job offers are plentiful for mechanical/electrical..whatever. Let them hire a guy, train him, you'll have a new job and can charge consulting fees for any work they require that he isn't fully trained in.