Why you probably won’t get a raise this year

[Tweak155]

Given who posted the thread, I figured it would be due to oil some how.

 

[child of wonder]

This year was a 3% raise for me, but I didn't complain since last year I got a 22% raise. Not going to fret over an additional 1-2%; I'm going to focus on honing my skills so that I can shoot for another 20%+ raise in the next year or two, either with my current company or a different one.

 

[rudeguy]

This year was a 3% raise for me, but I didn't complain since last year I got a 22% raise. Not going to fret over an additional 1-2%; I'm going to focus on honing my skills so that I can shoot for another 20%+ raise in the next year or two, either with my current company or a different one.

And that's how it should be. Learn new skills while paying your dues, then move up. That is my main complaint about people wanting to raise the minimum wage. What reason will people have to better themselves if they can wait for the government to force their employer to give them more money?

 

[Capt Caveman]

I'm getting a raise and a bonus. How you like them apples, OP?

Same

 

[theeedude]

I probably won't get one this year, since I got a 20% raise last year.

 

[Zaap]

Gee, another jealous busibody dumbMcowned thread. OP probably hasn't gotten a raise ever because he spends all his time nosing into other people's business instead of taking care of his own. (A basic hallmark of leftist assholes everywhere.)

Suffice it to say, 2013 was a better year for me financially than 2012, than 2011, than 2010 etc. etc... and 2014 is thus far even better.

Mediocre, talentless, sniveling little busibodies can suck it.

 

[Throckmorton]

Raise? I haven't gotten a raise since 2008

 

[Newell Steamer]

Confirmed. Raise - no. Bonus however, I did get one.

And, the squeeze to get more out of your employee has been going on since 2008.

It is still an employer's market as well.

There are enough unemployed people out there, to just ask for shit that doesn't jive. One position I interviewed for wanted a platform admin, an IT server admin (scheduling back ups, running maintenance) and a procurement specialist - and, the procurement aspect would not be of IT related items, it would be anything and everything (office supplies, etc.). You could have a server admin and platform admin,.. but, how do they expect a totally different position from another industry wrapped into the IT field?

Also, I've had interviews cancelled 30 minutes before the actual time, with the expectation I would come back the very next day. I am currently employed, I am not going to risk my current job to just show up whenever you feel like seeing me. I respectfully declined a reschedule, citing I can't just call in sick again into work.

Which is interesting, the employers can be as unprofessional as they damn well feel like being, but, don't you dare express any disapproval of their actions!

So, overall, the employers just don't give a flying fuck. And, it does sync with the tone of the GOP - but, that is not to say that the GOP "instructed" the employers to act like assholes. They just both happen to be dismissive, detatched and abusive.

 

[polarmystery]

I got a 9.5% raise this year, your post is invalid.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Got my raise at the beginning of the year and looking at around 15-20% bonus split to two payments through the year.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Switched jobs in August for a 70% raise. I'm OK for now.

 

[chimaxi83]

Dave, why do you hate people with jobs? I get raises twice a year. Sometimes, there's even bonuses involved. Thanks, union!

 

[MagickMan]

Dave, why do you hate people with jobs? I get raises twice a year. Sometimes, there's even bonuses involved. Thanks, union!

People who live off welfare and SNAP don't get raises, of course.

 

[soulcougher73]

I just got my raise letter today and my bonus. Guess not all is lost.