Anya ,'Storyteller'
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.
Happy birthday, Tom!
FWIW, he's amazing.
I am glad to have my appreciation validated! The opener was Jim Colliton, who's from around here, and he also made me laugh really hard, mostly with stuff that objectively seemed like funny stories many parents could tell.
Happy Birthday Tom!
Happy birthday, Tom!
HR finally managed to process our comp properly. 7% raise. Nice!
Very nice!
The only people at my job getting a raise this year are members of one union, and they are getting .5%, if management gets their way.
Happy birthday, Tom!
Wow- I have never seen a 7% raise without moving jobs!
Now I was a Bullgog. My phone is not easy to type on.
Last year I apparently got a very high raise- 3%. I guess everyone else got 1 or 2. The raise/review system is really weird where I work. We write a review of ourselves, go over it with our boss, then rewrite the review with their feedback. Then they are turned in to the Associate Dean for Finance. Then, supposedly unconnectedly, we all get letters from the associate dean telling us our raise percent. Which is supposedly not a merit raise, but we all get different percentages.
Happy birthday, Tom!
Nobody I work with has gotten any raise at all - not cost-of-living, nothing - since I got hired in August 2008. We had furloughs last year, and health insurance has gone up, so take-home pay is actually lower for most people. I find it incredibly demoralizing to get nothing at all (and they don't even try to fake us out with appreciation stuff).
Yeah, I think 3 was around the average here. But we use an incredibly complex process to decide these things, so that performance scores are determined, then department heads all meet to "recalibrate" scores across groups to even things out and account for particular managers scoring higher or lower, and then things like comp are determined based on then. On top of that, the acutal budgeted funds for comp and bonuses are deliberately targeted so that the greatest proportion of the pool is allocated to people at the top of the scale. So things end up pretty lopsided by design.