Raises?

So, nobody's actually saying it, but in my shop it just seems like its understand that we're not supposed to ask. With all the buyouts/layoffs fears and rumors swirling, there's a sense that it's just plain bad form to even think about raises. But if nobody asks, nobody gets em. Is not asking for raises the new etiquette?

 

not even COL?

 

We certainly didn't get COL raises this year.

 

the place where i work gave me a COL after having been here just two months.

i have to admit that surprised me just a little bit.

 

What are these ``raises'' you speak of?

 

Make them look you in the eye when they are screwing you over. Ask for it at the usual time.

 

Buddy who works in a relative white-collar sweatshop, cubicle city, something out of Dilbert or The Office, was moaning about how his performance review pegs him at a raise of about 4.5 percent to 5 percent. But the company, in a nod to the economy, is going to only give him 3 percent.

This is in some non-essential, 8-to-5, M-F environment. No one getting laid off either.

Yeah, he's got it real rough. I just zipped my lip though. He is, after all, a buddy. More power to him.

 

I'm getting a raise.



In workload.

 

Supposedly in October.

A mere 3 percent.

 

Aquaintence works at a Gatehouse shop that's currently negotiating a new contract. Their wage offer: 0 percent.

 

I got a 2.5 percent raise and a 22 percent bonus.

...But I don't work for a newspaper, so that would explain it.

 

Raises?

In the words of Ozzie Guillen, "hummph....please."