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Curious what one would consider a “Substantial” raise? If you are making, let’s say, 20$ hr or even 30$ hr. What do you think of when your boss says you have a “substantial” raise coming your way? Edit: Wow, y’all are all over the place. There’s a range of 3-20%. If I’m make 25$ hr and get a 3% raise, that’s .75$ more an hour and come out to an extra 1500$ a year (not even a months worth of rent for me) or 20% which is an extra 10,000$ a year (which pays for almost half a year of rent.) I go from not paying rent to buying a house in a year. Which is it? if anyone wants to put some bets down for what raise I actually get next month, I will update when the raise happens. I make 25$ hr now, you got be exact with…

Im a preschool teacher in the best case scenario. I work at an amazing private preschool where management cares about the workers, I am paid pretty well for a teacher (14.75 an hour) and I get to work with one of my best friends. And yet I am so burned out and anxious. I love the kids I teach but its so so hard (theyre 2-3 and a lot have new younger siblings). I dont feel good at my job. I want to go to college to do something else but I cant afford it at all. I have a terrible low back that makes many days excrutiating. I just want to cry. This isnt what life should be. I was actually excited when i got covid because I wouldnt have to work. Im so so tired and im only 22. I know I dont want to teach after this…

Is there anyway my current employer can keep from paying me my two weeks of paid vacation I have not used yet this year, if I quit at the end of the week. Edit- I am in Kentucky for reference

My boss is getting a stern talking to tomorrow. I am absolutely not accepting all his work being worth a 1% raise. Wish me luck.

Got an offer for a new gig. Current job has an inconsiderate boss who micromanages my travel time (can’t take a 11 am flight, I’m wasting company time, I have to travel as much as I can during non working hours). I’m at a Director responsibility level and own a multi million dollar IT budget, mind you. In addition, they made me use vacation time to permanently relocate to our other site 11 hours away. Knows we’re short handed but is of the whole well I’m here until 8 pm mindset so it’s fine if you constantly work extra hours for now. Oh also your manager deadlines still exist and can’t move, even if you have to help with Help Desk tickets because we’re short handed. Questions me working remote, even when my team is all on hybrid schedules except myself. Had to use vacation time to support my wife’s…

Big Macs have increased in price by 40% over the last 10 years while inflation has been 18.7% over the same time period. The average hourly McDonald’s worker in 2012 made 9$ per hour. The average is currently at about $12 per hour, or a 25% increase over the same period. Adjusted for inflation, that $12 an hour is worth roughly $9.76 in 2012 dollars, or an 8% real increase. So Big Macs have gone up 40%, with 18.7% explainable by inflation and another 8% explainable by wage increases (if you believe McDonald’s really can’t afford to increase wages an average of .8% per year without raising prices) That still leaves 13.3% of the price increase unaccounted for. Prices are rising faster than wages and inflation can explain, it’s greed that’s causing this not trying to increase the minimum wage.

I’ve been at this job for 10 months. $26/hr, benefits, work on my own but it is soul sucking. My former employer contacted me a couple weeks ago and asked if I would consider coming back. I left because of pay but they worked out a deal with the union to add a couple more tiers to the pay scale for the job. I went to see him last week to go over what they had to offer. The pay isn’t quite what I’m making now but the work is way more in line with my skills. They offered full benefits commencing immediately upon return, reinstating my seniority (agreed to by the union as I would be the only one with no line of progression), more flexibility in hours, less travel and reinstated holidays. Even though the pay is a little less, I agreed to return as I prefer working…