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Today was really draining to morale at my workplace.

I work in a clinic for one of the largest hospital systems on the planet. We’d recently been told we would be getting an economy raise— not a lot but enough that it would make a $100-$200 difference per paycheck. This upcoming paycheck is meant to be the first to reflect our raises, so we got our pay statements in our email today and our most senior employee, who’s been with the hospital for 22 years, had not received this raise. She works so hard and then goes home to take care of her mom with dementia. She never stops. She deserves it more than any of us. But because she has a final written warning (from missing too many days in the weeks leading up to when her father died) she doesn’t get it. And it’s bullshit. It makes me so angry. It wasn’t a performance raise, they’re literally…


I work in a clinic for one of the largest hospital systems on the planet. We’d recently been told we would be getting an economy raise— not a lot but enough that it would make a $100-$200 difference per paycheck. This upcoming paycheck is meant to be the first to reflect our raises, so we got our pay statements in our email today and our most senior employee, who’s been with the hospital for 22 years, had not received this raise. She works so hard and then goes home to take care of her mom with dementia. She never stops. She deserves it more than any of us. But because she has a final written warning (from missing too many days in the weeks leading up to when her father died) she doesn’t get it. And it’s bullshit. It makes me so angry. It wasn’t a performance raise, they’re literally denying her a living wage as punishment. Nothing has made me want to walk out of a job more in my life.

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