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“Merit Raises” and Inflation

Just got off the phone with my manager for my yearly merit raise. 2.75%. Lots of talk about how it’s standard and “even we as managers didn’t get that much”. When I asked about cost of living adjustments and inflation, she was like “well I don’t know, we’ve never done that before, we’ll have to see what the new AVP says.” I don’t mind my job, but the reality is I don’t work for shits and giggles. And working an entire year during a pandemic and exceeding all goals and projections and I get a $1 an hour raise? I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, it’s just, I’m so angry with this fucking system.


Just got off the phone with my manager for my yearly merit raise. 2.75%. Lots of talk about how it’s standard and “even we as managers didn’t get that much”.
When I asked about cost of living adjustments and inflation, she was like “well I don’t know, we’ve never done that before, we’ll have to see what the new AVP says.”

I don’t mind my job, but the reality is I don’t work for shits and giggles. And working an entire year during a pandemic and exceeding all goals and projections and I get a $1 an hour raise?

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, it’s just, I’m so angry with this fucking system.

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