Today, I got a raise at work. It will bring my hourly wage to about a cent more per hour. Our CEO just reported record-breaking profits for the year. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got a raise. A 10 cent raise. I have worked at my job for over 3 years. I now make 20 cents more an hour than people that have only worked there 3 minutes. FML
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Today, after one year of overworking myself to the point of panic attacks multiple times a week, I finally got my annual raise, which is given based on performance and effort. My warehouse's minimum production is 95. I regularly was in the 130s. My raise was 2 cents. FML
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CVeNgineer 0
Hey, that's still one more cent you didn't have before
PrimeEvilTahir 24
Do you work at a lemonade stand?
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Comments (78)
Karma220 7
Tell your boss to put it toward the company profits
KiddNYC1O 22
Can't be Apple.
PawnShopPenguin 4
Hey if you work 100 hrs, you will be $1.00 richer than you would've been before! Buy yourself something nice with all your extra cash :)
MrPacMan36 4
Sounds like my job... They send us papers showing huge sale profits and telling us better ways of doing business, but the pay stays the same.
downtime 13
Or where I used to work where the profits were growing and they used this as justification to increase our targets for the month...odd, we didn't see any extra money in our pay, but we did see it start to drop as people were struggling to make their monthly sales targets... I don't know who they thought they were fooling with that bullshit.
unknown_user5566 27
That's like receiving a backhanded compliment. "You're a good enough worker to earn a raise, just not a real raise". Honestly if I were you, I'd have a chat with my boss. Not to demand more money, but to see why that's all they gave you. They could see some issues with your work that you don't know about, and correcting those flaws might earn you a more substantial raise.
LuckyLynx7732 5
A one cent raise is basically an insult, but that is what you get when you work for a corporation. I would take one of those pennies and drop it in the gas tank of your boss's car every day.
MrPacMan36 4
Thats hilariously ingenious.
spinx13 0
If you don't like it feel free to start your own company or invent something easily marketed. Drones don't get wealthy. Drones build and/or sell the ideas of others. Do you believe someone owes you a comfortable life for nothing more than being a worker bee ? YDI
THE_A_TEEN 28
It's ONE PENNY. It's worth nothing in todays economy. Are you saying working your arse of equals no compensation for your hard work?
unknown_user5566 27
So I take it you're unemployed, living in mom's basement, and working on your next invention so you can make the big bucks?
docscientist 10
42 - are you some sort of moron?
downtime 13
More likely his parents are quite wealthy and connected and this allowed him to make his way into a position of good employment with little effort.
jose18 3
Your CEO deserves the money he gets he worked his ass off to be were he's at stop complaining work harder and you'll probably be the CEO of your own company some day
THE_A_TEEN 28
Once again, OP worked to makes those high profits along with the other workers. He should at least be awarded with something higher then one cent. It's pretty much an insult. You sound like a CEO yourself.
perdix 31
Underpaying workers is the easiest way to maximize profits. Your sacrifice is making your CEO look good. Yay, you!
Ray_of_midnight 23
Yeah, but people without discretionary income don't buy stuff. Henry Ford had this figured out nearly 100 years ago but apparently it's lost on today's CEOs.
perdix 31
#74, amen, brother!
Big_lama6 7
Those profits will be going right to your asshole CEO's pocket