Yeah, we have been told no raises now, no raises next FY, and we have a hiring freeze unless the position is safety related.
A mid-year budget cut of 9% and next year anywhere from 6-10% will do that for you.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Feb 05, 2009 11:49:02 am PST #5191 of 30000
information libertarian
aurelia - Feb 05, 2009 11:53:37 am PST #5192 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I got a call this morning asking to re-negotiate my contracts for both my salaried position and my design fee/budget for an upcoming show. Not good.
amych - Feb 05, 2009 11:53:39 am PST #5193 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But yeah, anyone carping about raises right now in any position is really not grasping the real world, methinks.
Pretty much this. I know I've grumbled to myself when people in for-profit land get 10% and/or bonuses (where our standard is more like 2 or 3%)... Right now? I'm fully expecting 0, and damned happy to be in higher ed.
lisah - Feb 05, 2009 12:01:10 pm PST #5194 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
At one of my accounts in Michigan a woman died shortly after I started there--her husband was driving and hit a deer. Its hind legs went through the windshield and it kicked her to death trying to escape.
I am never driving outside the city again.
msbelle - Feb 05, 2009 12:03:09 pm PST #5195 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
People in the bank are still not happy about the very strong likelihood of no bonuses, because they budget for them, but yeah - things could be so much worse.
Toddson - Feb 05, 2009 12:03:12 pm PST #5196 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My mother once hit a deer - killed the deer and left her car in bad enough shape that she got stuck in a small rural town in Virginia for several hours. The local police wanted to know what she wanted done with the deer ... if she wanted it for the meat. Being the committed supermarket hunter that she is, she told them anyone who wanted it could have it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 05, 2009 12:04:22 pm PST #5197 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, I haven't gotten a raise in a couple years, and just lost matching funds on my 401k, but all in all I'm pretty happy to have a steady job with no salary cuts given the shape of the publishing industry.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2009 12:11:30 pm PST #5198 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
People in the bank are still not happy about the very strong likelihood of no bonuses, because they budget for them, but yeah - things could be so much worse.
That's no joke though -- I was stunned when I found out that the guy I knew at Citi made more than his salary in bonus. I didn't realize it was so significant, but I guess that's how banks work.
Kathy A - Feb 05, 2009 12:13:56 pm PST #5199 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
made more than his salary in bonus
Seriously?!? Wow. And here I am at my company for 16 years, and my total in bonuses is about $250. (They really don't do bonuses in legal publishing, at least not for non-salespeople.)
Sean K - Feb 05, 2009 12:14:18 pm PST #5200 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Was it here that we were being somewhat judgey about octuplets woman? Because I was feeling kind of judgey about her too, until I found out that Bill O'Reilly was being judgey about her, too.
Agreeing with him in any way about this just leaves too much of a bad taste in my mouth. The woman wants to have fourteen kids, and maybe even twelve more.... have at it.