Out of cycle pay raises

[volatile]

I just requested a pay raise 3 months after our yearly raise because I felt cheated. They forced me to get a certification right around the time the yearly raise was coming out. I got it and then they bumped me up $1/hr per company policy. However, they said they wouldn't give me a yearly raise because of this bump. This is even though I could have gotten the cert at a later time and gotten the bump after my yearly raise. The manager at the time told me he'd put me in 3 months later but he ended up transferring out of the store. Frustrating. I'm looking for any reason to stay since my friend started working with me...but working a full time and this part time while trying to do school is killing me. If they could make it worth it I'd stay.

Have any of you had any success with out of cycle raises?

[Gothicsmurf]

At my old company, I was given a raise 6 months after I started and moved to a different position with in that department. Because of that, I wasn't eligible for the next raise as I wasn't at that postion for at least 6 months, by review time It would have been 5 months. So I had to wait for an entire year and a half for any kind of raise or bonus (Beause I got a cheap ass $50 hiring bonus.)

So when I finally got my raise, It wouldn't take effect until April 15, 5 months after my review. Which really sucked as for the pay period, we didn't get our check until the 18th or something. And I left the company the last day of May- So I only had 3 checks with the addtional raise.

[volatile]

It gets a little more retarded for me. I spoke with my store manager the other day and what he told me was that I didn't get my yearly raise because of a $1 bump last August. This bump, mind you, was given to me because the last store manager started me at a full $1 under what ALL technicians are SUPPOSED to start off at by company standards. My direct manager saw this and bumped me up to what I was supposed to have started off with about 6 months after I started. So essentially, the home office stance is that I recieved a dollar raise even though it was a correction for the wrong starting rate. Awesome. I didn't even get back pay for the 6 previous months.