End of year reviews and pay raises

[drkelly]

Sounds like you were getting screwed. Good on you for leaving and getting what you are worth.

 

[Joe J.]

This is my complaint about the big company I work for (and probably most big companies). If I got 3%, Johnny Slackass and Suzy Sitzaround both got 2.5%. Boss man tells me 3% is the highest he gave anyone this year, which is probably true, but there's little differentiation between contributors, non-contributors, and inhibitors.

Don't feel too bad, we only got 2% up here.

 

[uglyjeepoffroad]

We have our review after the first. My supervisor gets a certain amount to go around. I've gotten decent raises, and no raise. Just depends on the year. I do have good benefits, and a company truck. I acrue 8.7 hours off every two week pay period. I've been here since '96 and my pay rate has more than doubled.

 

[Cherokeekid88]

I just left my job of 5 years. I had company paid benefits (decent BCBS health, vision, and dental), at 5 years I was just starting to accrue 3 weeks of vacation time per year, I had a 401k match up to 5%, and we worked 5-3 Monday to Thursday.

HOWEVER: I started at 13 an hour. I worked every piece of equipment and every department they asked me to. I worked night shift for a year and a half. I worked shipping and receiving as well as my usual machine shop duties on nights and sometimes ran the blast booth. Hell, I even helped maintenance when they needed it, mowed grass, and welded! When I left, I had been running a flame cut table for 2 years. I had worked up to 15.76 an hour. I wasn't paid what I was worth at all. I didn't blame the owner of the company, just the production manager and my supervisor. The production manager's step son was making 28 an hour and you can't tell me it had nothing to do with them being related! They didn't offer me a dime to stay, but everyone said they hated to see me go.

So, now I'm a federal employee. I started last Monday. It was damn near a 10 dollar an hour pay raise. Insurance is MUCH better coverage, even if I do have to pay for it. We're supposed to get a cost of living increase around March, so I've been told. Also, 6 months from my start date, I should pick up my step 2 and each year after I should pick up the next step until I get to step 5. In 30 years, I can retire and do what I want! At my last job, I really feel like I'd be 75 years old and still working...and not making crap for money!


The hopes and dreams of my last production manager don't pay my bills. My mortgage company prefers US Dollars.

Good for you man! I am hoping to do this as well. I have taken on so many different responsibilities since I started with no pay increase over what everyone else in the company was getting...and I was doing more than twice the work. Got an offer to move up for $100 more a month and there will still people getting paid more than me who were in lower positions, doing less....
I love our vacation we get, but I'd rather make more money and be happy with less vacation and work for a company who gives a damn about their employees.....at least a little bit.