Today, I had my six month employee review. My manager said that my attendance was good, and I was exceeding my targets performance wise. My reward, a five cent per hour pay cut. Apparently the rate at which I started is too high to meet their current pay scale. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out my reward for topping three of the four employee performance charts was a paycut. FML
Today, I had a performance evaluation meeting with my boss. He told me I was the best in my department, and that the productivity has never been higher before I started working here. Oh, and he said that because everything is working so well, they don't need me as much, so he's cutting my hours. FML
Today, I got a 25-cent raise at work. That would be wonderful, had they not cut 6 hours off my schedule as well. I'm now making $200 less a month than I was pre-raise. FML
Today, my boss offered me a 3% "raise" with new commission targets. Consequently this "raise" would result in my income being reduced by a third. Apparently, if I can reach my current targets, they're too easy. So, as a reward for being great at my job, I get a reduced salary. FML
Today, the person recently hired to work in my spot during my days off started at a higher hourly rate than me, after I have been here for nearly three years. I asked for a raise and got a dollar more; meanwhile, my regional counterparts make 4 dollars more per hour. FML
Today, I had my quarterly review with my supervisor at the warehouse I work at. He told me I was doing great and we discussed my raise. After I left his office, his supervisor told me I was being fired for my attendance. The last time I missed work was to attend a funeral. Five months ago. FML
Today, after 3 years at my job I received a 14% raise. I was informed I will be transitioned from hourly to salary. I will now be making $1500 LESS than I made last year. FML
Today, despite having made it clear that I'm neither interested, nor I am able to take over the jobs of the 3 members of staff who have recently left, my boss made a "Progress Plan" for me and will check on it weekly. I'm getting paid 1.5 times less than average in my role and he's not giving me a raise because the company is stingy. FML
Today, after working my ass off for 2 months, receiving perfect reviews, and going out of my way to take on extra work to get a job offer from the location where I temp, I finally got an offer for a permanent position. Included in the offer was a $3.00 an hour pay cut and no insurance. FML
Today, I talked to my boss about my pay decrease since switching job locations, and how I feel I should be getting a bit more. Her response? “Absolutely not.” FML
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Top comments
darienlake 0
congratulations! you stumbled upon the concept of relativity! where EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE!! yeah a lot of people dont have jobs. but you dont see people NOT complaining about their lives because people in Darfur are losing their families every day, do you? you are on your computer and you have food to eat right? yeah a lot of people in africa dont have any of these things. but we still complain and we still create FML websites. because thats life.
flgirlwguitar 2
I posted this earlier, so if it shows up again, I'm sorry, but Such is life right now. I started working for my current job about 2 months after the guy I carpool with. In between the time he got his 2nd raise and I was due for mine, salaries were frozen for over a year. When they were unfrozen, he got his 3rd raise at the same time I got my 2nd. It's not worth losing sleep over with how many people are out of work right now.
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Comments (41)
musicislife1995_fml 0
slack off to that standard then. at least you were complimented, get over it at the moment
gecko13 0
Hang in there something good could come out of it. if you keep a good attitude... it's not much money anyways....
ombrelle 0
As somebody in HR they are not allowed to take away your pay because they screwed up in the first place. As long as you signed a contract saying what you were to be paid then that's what it's supposed to be... No wonder you're from the US you people don't know anything...
crash0720 0
Wow! Thank you for being a stereotypical asshole!!
blalien 0
@16: If you're not from the US, how do you know your country's salary laws apply here?
ombrelle 0
because I studied international HR so I know international laws... and like I said, if you sign a contract they can't take the money away from you like that because they screwed up their pay scale... and also, when you have a review if one is exceeding in the review you don't take a pay cut. It's usually in the company's policies that a meeting expectations or exceeding expectations rating gets an increase but a below or needs improvement rating has their salary stay the same. It's illegal to take away someone's hourly rate.
Okie7123 0
If he's working at a company that gives you cuts and raises by 5 cents, maybe it's time to find a better job and stop bitching about losing a dollar every 20 hours. Seems like a kind of pointless FML.
gecko13 0
hmmmm... not worth getting fiered over!
duudegoog 0
Quit your bitchin' asshole, there's so many people who deserve/ desperatly need a job, and your taking pity on your 5 cent Pay cut? stop pitying yourself and grow up.
Sparkey 0
Yes! Think about the poor kids in Africa! Or in the sweatshops in Asia. WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Veritas143 0
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Sannekee 18
Can they just do that? Where I'm from they can't, but hey, that's a whole different continent... That sucks!
Jewelofagal 2
Many states in the US are "employment at will" states. This means that employees can leave a job for any reason and an employer can pay any salary the employer deems and can fire at will. With the exception of executive level positions, most employees in this country do not have employment contracts. Ergo, pay can be cut or an employee can be fired whether or not the employee is meeting performance expectations.
MattyDeuces 0
Yeah, I work in an "at will state" as a general manager of a restaurant and I can assure you that it is not legal to lower an employee's pay for any reason, unless they are demoted, and even then it must be a clear demotion. For example if I were to move a server to a dishwasher, I could not lower their pay. However, if I were moved to a server, I could have my pay cut. When you agree to work for a company, you and the company agree on the salary you are to be paid. That can either be the same, or raised. And especially if you had a top notch review, there is no legal ground for them to lower you pay, even in an "at will state". They can fire you for no reason, but cannot cut your pay if you are not demoted. Doesn't matter the job or industry.