Work: Can't be bothered

Can't be bothered

By anabolic - 27/02/2009 23:05 - United States

Today, my boss said he was giving me a significant raise. After he requested the payroll department to raise my salary they informed him he needed to fill out a one-sheet form. He took my raise away because he didn't want to fill the sheet out. FML

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Know your place

By Anonymous - 06/12/2014 18:23 - United States

Today, I asked my boss for a raise. I pointed out that due to a technicality, if he hired someone to replace me, he'd have to pay them more anyway. He said he'd gladly pay more for "someone who knows his goddamn place" and made it clear I'll be jobless very soon. FML

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Bad at maths

By Anonymous - 21/05/2022 22:00

Today, my boss finally worked out that by not giving the lads a pay rise to £18 an hour, instead just offering them overtime when necessary, it actually cost the equivalent of raising each employees salary to £26 an hour, for a whole year. He’s is blaming me because I issue the pay checks. FML

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By fuckmyplums - 07/02/2014 23:47 - Austria - Grossarl

Today, I worked up the nerve to ask my boss for a raise. Today is also the day I found out my boss has a shitlist of employees he wants to fire, and that I'm now on it. FML

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Boss man

By Anonymous - 13/04/2024 23:00

Today, my boss agreed to a 20% pay rise, in exchange for adding a list of new responsibilities to my job description that will effectively double my workload, which he expects to be carried out in the same 8 hour workday, and not on overtime either. My boss is my dad and I hate him. FML

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By corey - 28/02/2012 03:41 - United States

Today, I went to ask my boss for a raise. He laughed at me and said, "That's hilarious because I was going to ask you if you could take a pay cut!" FML

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What?

By Patrick - 29/10/2020 03:08 - Trinidad and Tobago - Couva

Today, my coworker got a raise by making our boss give me a pay cut for doing his job while he was slacking off. As we were heading home for the day, he found $100. FML

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Inflation woes

By DevoutOccamist - 31/10/2022 00:00

Today, after I got a great job at my asking salary, my boss then quit without telling me my salary was maxed out. I learned this when, two years in a row, I got a 1% raise because I'm redlined. With inflation, my take-home pay has dropped by 15% in two years. FML

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Mount Everest

By Anonymous - 25/04/2015 12:58 - India - Mumbai

Today, my boss asked if I could spare a few minutes to finish off the last of his paperwork backlog. I'm pretty desperate for a raise, so I said sure. Turns out the "small", "should-take-a-few-minutes" backlog consists of 3 desk-high stacks of documents. Goodbye, cruel world. FML

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By Dino - 21/10/2018 14:00

Today, I drove a total of 4 hours for my boss to demote me, downgrade my pay, and make the kid I hired my new boss. Why? Because I asked about the $500 missing from my paycheck. FML

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By AverageDeskJoe - 03/05/2016 20:43 - United States - Baton Rouge

Today, I met with my boss hoping to hear about a possible raise that had been promised many months ago. He then told me that the only way I would get a raise was if I found a better paying job and took it, and that the company was in no position to offer anyone a raise. FML

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k649 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 2:45

Hahah, I'm having a difficult time seeing how they deserved this one.

potentpotable 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 3:40

#8 is right, this is not exactly the prime time to be wandering out there on the job market, nor to cash in on that nest egg. The "get a new job" argument works...if you're still stuck in the 90s.

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k649 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 2:45

Hahah, I'm having a difficult time seeing how they deserved this one.

hanamama 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 3:18

@ #4... as if it's just so easy to go out and find a new job in times like these. @ OP - sorry, but can't see this happening.

SEXMUFFIN21 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 3:19

that's obviously not true. if you really deserved the raise, he would have filled the sheet out

potentpotable 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 3:40

#8 is right, this is not exactly the prime time to be wandering out there on the job market, nor to cash in on that nest egg. The "get a new job" argument works...if you're still stuck in the 90s.

rayray_fml 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 4:51

I would have done that to you.

dwights 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 6:40

hahahha # 3 you are epic.

King_of_Kings 3

Saturday 28 February 2009 8:03

atleast you have a job.

somethingvague 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 8:32

Daaaaamn. #3: Nice

Niki_Nonsense 0

Saturday 28 February 2009 16:45

dude almost the same thing happened to me but he had to do a full evaluation, send it to his boss, and then actually give me an evaluation. he didn't like to do that. it took me 2 months to force him to do it and in the end, his boss wouldn't let me have a raise because i was only good and not excellent. and only excellent managers deserve raises even though i was being graded on things that i'm not required to do so i'm not good at them. i don't ever do them. my boss handed me $20 though even though it could get him fired. he said that i deserved it. i love my boss. even if he is lazy.