I work at a newspaper and I got a raise!!! Oh wait...

[JayFarrar]

Checked my online account to make sure the direct deposit went through.
And I suddenly became very excited. I had made more money this week!
Yippee!
Then I checked my paycheck, and my pay was still the same.
Then, then I remembered. That crazy ass President Barack Obama had done some mumbo jumbo to the tax code and everyone should be seeing more money.
Thanks Barack!

 

[BigSleeper]

I get to enjoy that benefit for one week before the pay cut kicks in. Yippee.

 

[RickStain]

I got a raise a few months ago.

The secret is to find an absolutely awful place to work in the middle of nowhere where there is no competition for the job.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

My bi-weekly paycheck went up $11 a few weeks ago. Woot!

 

[I Should Coco]

Hey, let's be patriotic and help out our economy with that little bit of tax rebate loot.

I'll see you all at the adult book store after deadline!

 

[Fredrick]

Here's another thing Journalism profs and deans need to tell their students.
This is a business, if you choose to enter it, your starting salary will be your salary forever. And more than likely your starting salary actually will be cut a few times.
Still interested?
Bring on the citizen journalists now.

 

[RickStain]

Still interested?

"Yes. I just love writing and can't imagine doing anything else. Money's not that important, is it?"

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Here's another thing Journalism profs and deans need to tell their students.
This is a business, if you choose to enter it, your starting salary will be your salary forever. And more than likely your starting salary actually will be cut a few times.
Still interested?
Bring on the citizen journalists now.

If journalism professors actually told these kids the truth about this business those mother****ers would be on the unemployment line with us in three days.

 

[mediaguy]

Still basking in the glow of the raise I got last year ...

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Boo, socialism!

 

[jimluttrell1963]

i didn't decide to go into this biz until i got to college and had this great journalism professor in my freshman year. wound up having him for two other classes. he really was terrific. ran into him a couple of years after graduation and asked why he never talked about the pay and the hours and the weekends and the holidays. his response? "now you know why i teach."

 

[Some Guy]

Just be careful with that extra money. The tax rate didn't change. They're just witholding less. So you will owe more next April.

Sneaky, sneaky.

 

[Starman]

Checked my online account to make sure the direct deposit went through.
And I suddenly became very excited. I had made more money this week!
Yippee!
Then I checked my paycheck, and my pay was still the same.
Then, then I remembered. That crazy ass President Barack Obama had done some mumbo jumbo to the tax code and everyone should be seeing more money.
Thanks Barack!

You've been teabagged!! By a SOCILIST!!!

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

In the early 1980s I was working at a paper that was in bad shape financially (it eventually died years after I left). Most of us would go in at noon on paydays to cash the check a block way because we feared the day would come when the checks would bounce. Anyway, I opened the check and saw I got a $20 raise. Overjoyed, I popped my head into the top editor's office and thanked him. He looked at me like I'd told him the building was on fire. "Let me see that!" I was not the only one, he later discovered. Someone in accounting had ****ed up. And they deducted it from the next week's check.

 

[Birdscribe]

Here's another thing Journalism profs and deans need to tell their students.
This is a business, if you choose to enter it, your starting salary will be your salary forever. And more than likely your starting salary actually will be cut a few times.
Still interested?
Bring on the citizen journalists now.

If journalism professors actually told these kids the truth about this business those mother****ers would be on the unemployment line with us in three days.

Ummm, did that with my J-100 class I taught for six years. Repeatedly. Every semester. Every semester, my classes got the inside scoop on what was going on in the business and why it was going on. Warts and all.

And I was the one who pulled the plug on teaching the class, not my chair, who told me I have a job as long as I want one. But between $4.50 a gallon gas, a 240-mile trip between home, Job 1 and Job 2 (teaching), burnout at teaching the same class for 10 straight semesters and a hard time pumping up a profession that is hell-bent on destroying itself, I gave it up last spring.

So the profs worth their title are still speaking truth to power.

 

[thatshot]

I was hoping the withholding would wash the paycut I took this time around, but no such luck.

 

[CM Punk]

I got paid today. I'll have to check this out.

(Oh, and my pay is cut does that mean I can work less?)

 

[ondeadline]

Mine went up but about a third of that was wiped out by the company changing to an insurance plan that costs me more.

 

[mike311gd]

I'm sure my office will find a way to take that from me, too.

 

[Football_Bat]

"God bless us, everyone."