The company I work for makes a lot of money. It is by no means a small company but that is how they make so much. We had an all hands meeting the other day with everyone in the program I am part of.
The program director/manager was telling us how well we were doing and how much the company as a whole values the program because it us one of the highest profit makers for the company.
He then tells us, “We have 34 million dollars in unrealized profits in the last 6 quarters. That's 34 million more than we ever planned to make.” I sat in my seat know the cost of living for the area. I'm lucky I live less than a mile, I have a very cheap apartment for the area. But I know people who drive 45 minutes or have 3 or 4 roommates.
While sitting in this meeting I did the math for if they gave everyone 1000 bonus. There were roughly 40 people in attendance. That would come out to .17%. Even if they gave us all 10,000 it would be 1.7%. And that's 1.7% of the unrealized profits. Then I thought back to raises. They argue anything above 3% and base it off merit. There isn't a cost of living increase. The pay we do get is relativity competitive for the area but honestly close to what minimum wage should be just to survive.
Can you guess what we got after the meeting? A bottle of soda, a tray of cookies and brownies (not even enough for everyone in attendance, by the time I got to the tray there was about 10 left) and a beer glass with the program logo/name.
The whole meeting they were praising us for our hardwork.
So thank us for the hardwork.