A few days ago I would say I’m a little underpaid but I also enjoy a work from home job with little oversight sitting at a desk. Today I’m kinda mad at my employer and myself. I knew I haven’t gotten a raise in the last 2 years, and I knew when Covid first started I was given a 5% pay cut that was eventually raised back up and I didn’t really get a bonus last year because all they did was restore the lost wages from the 5% pay cut.
I’m poking around my employee portal cuz I’m working on my taxes and it’s all just kind of screaming at me that I didn’t advocate for myself at all and I feel like I was raised to think this way.
The cherry on top is that when I started working where I am now they told me I wouldn’t be able to get 401k employee matching and my offer letter says if I stay with the company for 2 years they would consider it, well that was over 3 years ago.
I want a raise, I want 401k matching like my offer letter says and I want them to put all the money they forgot to mention to me going back the 1.x years I was eligible 401k match.
My rent has gone up twice since my last raise, things aren’t getting cheaper. I’m working in fuckin tech and I cannot afford a house or even a child (recently I rescued a puppy that now I’m realizing it isn’t all that much more work then raising a child when you consider I do by far the majority of the caretaking between my wife and I so I might as well have done that but that’s a whole other issue for another day).
I want to ask for a raise but I feel like I need to do a lot of prep work to be ready for a confrontation. Like I know I feel underpaid but I haven’t even taken into account what the average person in my position should be making cuz I’ve been out of the job search game for the last 3 years.