Matter of fact, when you do get a raise you need to ask yourself if it’s truly a raise. Inflation decreases the purchasing power of your salary, so if you get a raise you might be getting what was your initial salary.
You did a fantastic job, blew all your metrics out of the park. You were herr 6/7 days a week for the whole year and did the work of 3 people. We couldnt be more proud of you. So I went to bat for you, really fought like hell, and managed to get your raise increased from 3% to 5&!!!
Inflation was 8+%
Just remember that I stuck my neck out for you. We’ve got a lot work coming in and I’ll need you to pick up some of the slack. Who knows, maybe this time next year you could be a team leader and switch over to salary. It opens a lot of opportunities.
Oh shit, I didn’t know you were on my last performance review call.
Holy shit are you my boss because that exact conversation happened to me last year!
In Belgium we have mandatory wage increases to combat inflation.
Companies aren’t allowed to call them raises because that isn’t what they are.
Last year after Covid, we had an increase of 11-12%. Which was very nice.
Honestly this should be the norm everywhere.
Why not just freeze prices then? I guess because you still have to purchase goods from abroad that wouldn’t freeze prices? Inflation sucks and I hate it.
I hate inflation too, but I understand why it’s necessary. Imagine if rich people had an even easier time hoarding their wealth.
Although now that think of it, maybe at this point we really don’t need to create positive feedback loops for economic growth anymore.
“Quiet firing”
I have resting bitch face so I just constantly look stressed all day when in reality I’m just watching Youtube videos after my hour of work is finished.
I’m lucky to have had a great job going on seven years, but the decade prior to that I was in an awful place, but this meme speaks to me because I did just that. I had a boss who didn’t want to lose me, so he got my interview for an internal move (that would have been a promotion) pulled.
That’s a pretty monumentally shitty thing to do, so after that, I did the absolute bare minimum. It was a lot of fun when I put in my two weeks.
The gall of some managers. They’re going to lose that person anyway - might as well be on good terms where the potential of working together in the future is still a possibility.
It was one of the few times I’ve nearly lost it in the office. And the manager who did it was shit at his job, hence why he had to go to such measures to keep people around.
My father was very high-achieving in business, so when he gave me the following piece of advice, it was truly unexpected. He told me, “if you can get away with only putting in maybe 85% and still get things done, maybe only give 85%.”
I expected some holier than thou “you must give it your all,” but he taught me to coast when I can do so and still meet expectations.
I have found the same to be great for work life balance!
All of a sudden all projects are much harder and require your utmost focus.
So you put on headphones and watch a show.
Still wasting your time tho… so the system wins while you’re getting older
Get better hobbies. Career trajectory is far from everything.
The best hobbies don’t help, if you work 40+ hours and you’re too tired after work to do anything. Work 32 hours or less if you can (I know it’s a privilege) and enjoy life for the rest, cause it’s short.
This. This is exactly it. I could earn a bit more money working 40 hours, but I decided to do a 4 day work week with only 32 hours and my health has increased drastically.
What’s funny about this, is that I’m also a coder and I used a lot of my spare time and regained power to learn new tools, frameworks and programming languages outside of work. Ultimately, these will result in higher paid jobs. Can’t do that when you’re constantly tired.
shrinkflation! :P
And even while working less, you are still working more than said boss
I’m not working anymore- I’m helping my daughter with a state online school which requires a parent to be a full time ‘learning coach’- but in my last job, I spent as much time as I could on Reddit. Then Lemmy. Now she doesn’t want me to sit with her during her video lessons, so I have a similar amount of time to kill and post on Lemmy.
One day I’ll have more to do and you people will be rid of me.
Last year I started working less for even more money. Another company wanted to poach me, so my boss had to make me an offer. Went down to a 32 hour work week with Fridays off while also getting a significant raise, so I stayed at the company. He didn’t like it, but there wasn’t much of a choice because we’re severely understaffed.
Let’s see if I can do this again this year. Not working less hours (32h is fine), but getting an even better offer.
Probably he might fire you after getting trained staffed. This is very old strategy. Hold onto a employee till a cheaper replacement. Enjoy while it last start searching for better company
fight smarter, not harder.
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I don’t know what you’re barfing about, but you should get that checked out by a doctor.
