Just wanted to vent a bit. So, until december I was earning 42000€/year, i had several meetings with my boss to discuss a pay raise. After 6 months i finally got one and I currently earn 47000€/year. I was fine with that since i was fresh from college and just started to work 3 years ago.
Today, a colleague told me that our HR offered 55000€/year to a new employee who'd do exactly our work. (They told him by accident). So now our whole department feels kinda pissed, because that's more than anyones earning here. They just can't wrap their head around the fact that a new person with no experience is getting more than an old employee who's working here for 12-20 years.
After some thinking I decided to ask for an interim reference today (don't know if that's the right term) and start searching the jobmarket for other jobs during my 3 weeks vacation, which coincidental starts today.