CEO asking to triple salary

porpoise

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Current situation is my health is a wreck I am 24 and running a beverages company in which I am in the position of CEO as well as foreman of the small crew we have. How I became at this age the CEO is because I started at 19 while a great consultant was consulting the company and saw something in me. Basically, when I was 6-8 months in the consultant fired the whole crew and began looking for honest workers. 4 years later it is 7 of us and the company is growing in all senses and all the money is reinvested in the company. The thing is I still have my initial salary, started as a bottle packer. I know 4 languages at a native level and got a degree and most importantly experience in the sector, The lowest paid employee is at the same level of pay as me. Having told the owners that I am financing with my own salary many operations of the company as I would go up to 8 months at a time without getting paid in order to make the company grow faster, thus, making more profitable which in turn brings. The owners are not present at the business they just come once a month for dinner at a restaurant nearby and leave, that's where I usually tell them the reality of the business and what's going on but they don't really seem to care of my sacrifice last 3 months I am working almost 14 hours per day no days off keep in mind that the blue collar part of this job is already stressing combined with the administrative and so on...have lost 14 kg and today is the day I have noticed I am starting to go crazy, never have I shown agressiveness but today I just f*ckin destroyed an office table by kicking it with steel toe shoes when I have stopped working so no one saw me,. The thing is I pay my workers top as I want them to stay and show them appreciation and the give it back, I adore my crew and will do anything for them and they for me. I am at the point of asking 3x my salary and put it on the table to the owners the thing is I know this is putting an ultimatum as missing a deadline is fatal in this business and currently all the customers and all the processes are handled by me still haven't got time to train someone fit for the position .should I ask the 3x and x commission of the sales. What's gonna be their reaction?
Company is not mine and what comes to my head is 'why should I be wrecking my health for that little money while I could not to do that'. What's gonna be their reaction?

I have started with my best friend a trading(goods) and manufacturing consulting business and that's going good good. Should I dedicate 100% of myself to this business?
But how can I not leave a project to which I have dedicated substantial proportion of my 20s and keeping my reputation in the sector as someone reliable?
I bring 60% sales
 
@613jono Some types of corporations require those C level positions to be staffed. My in laws run a relatively successful comic book shop (as well as a local convention and online sales), and one is the president and the other is CEO because they’re incorporated as a C Corp.
 
@frdpwr427 But anyone can setup a corporation, and anyone can be a CEO; it doesn't make you a CEO. A CEO casts the vision and directs the company, and is compensated based on its growth and profitability. A CEO doesn't wear steel toe shoes and work the bottling line, because then they arent spending time working ON the growth and health of the business. You can't do both.
 
@porpoise Dude what kind of sad desperate shit did I just read? You aren’t a CEO if you are still getting paid the same as when you were a bottle packer. Quit. Move on. Stop letting someone literally stomp all over you. You don’t even get your shitty pay cheque always? Fuck.
 
@mindyy137 I mean honestly he's likely not gonna be CEO or make 200k anywhere else, he should ask for a raise but CEO of a 7 person company isn't going to secure CEO position at another company.
 

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