In total, it amounts to $0.38. It is a 2.13% increase in my base pay.
This is after working at this company for two years. Coming in early. Working through my lunch. Driving double my commute because they wanted me at a different office. Not having work from home even be an option, despite my medical issues and the commute. Not to mention the climate, since it’s New England and we get snow. Why not work from home when I can’t drive in? Who knows. More myopic planning on their part.
I was kvetching about this insult of a “raise” to a coworker, and I got all the typical boomer responses. It really adds up if you stick with it! No one else is doing any better. We need you here!
Sat down and crunched the numbers. Going at the seemingly normal 2% increase, over the course of the next 8 years I’ll be up to a whopping additional $3.33 per hour. I am literally just a set of hands, anyone can do my job. And I looked online: similar job in the area starts at $22/hr.
I’m so fucking done.