Straight from the front lines of the working people. After two years of no raises but increasingly more work, I talked to my manager about a pay raise. We use a system of numbers and letters to determine your pay class – mine is G1 and I wanted to be moved to G2.
Two things happened. He started to laugh and reminded me that every position has a pay range. If my position doesn't go beyond G1, I won't get a raise – period. Of course he didn't know the range, so he blew that off for next week.
Here's the kicker, the difference is 5% – pre-tax. After taxes it would be a whooping 4.3% raise. And he is acting like it's the biggest favor of his to consider it.
The meeting concerning a yes or no will be next week. If he refuses, I'll have to either drop all the s**t that has been loaded on top of my work, or I'll need to walk.
Damn clowns. Damn, I needed to vent.