• Sequentialsilence
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    1 year ago

    The other thing I always tell people is every year you don’t get a raise that’s at least equal to inflation you’re getting a pay cut. Finding a job that does cost of living increases every year is a huge benefit.

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      My company generally gives yearly raises, and before 2020 they were usually pretty generous. The last few years though, they haven’t even come close to matching inflation.

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        And you are getting a relative pay cut. Doing the same amount of work, but the money you take home doesn’t go as far.

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        Sadly no, my company does, but many companies see employees as resources, not assets.

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          Ugh. At the place I worked for a long time pre-covid, fairly often I heard the word “resource” being used in place of “human being.”

          Can we put a resource on this problem? Who is the resource assigned to this? We won’t have an available resource until next month.