HR finally managed to process our comp properly. 7% raise. Nice!
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
brenda m - Apr 03, 2011 5:46:24 am PDT #1509 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse - Apr 03, 2011 5:53:14 am PDT #1510 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Amy - Apr 03, 2011 5:57:09 am PDT #1511 of 30001
Because books.
Happy birthday, Tom!
Sophia Brooks - Apr 03, 2011 5:57:50 am PDT #1512 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2011 5:58:40 am PDT #1513 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy birthday, Tom!
flea - Apr 03, 2011 6:03:23 am PDT #1514 of 30001
information libertarian
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).
brenda m - Apr 03, 2011 6:11:48 am PDT #1515 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
brenda m - Apr 03, 2011 6:13:38 am PDT #1516 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I find it incredibly demoralizing to get nothing at all (and they don't even try to fake us out with appreciation stuff).
That definitely sucks. Incredibly demotivating.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2011 6:19:46 am PDT #1517 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, ditto.
brenda m - Apr 03, 2011 6:24:53 am PDT #1518 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
ION, the cat just overbalanced and fell off the counter. Now I'm getting the "what you looking at, punk?" bitchface from across the room.