KokaneeCowgirl
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Just need some advice on this scenario...
It's bonus/pay review time in our company. Last year I had a great bonus and a pretty good pay rise.
Just got pulled in this morning to be told the news. Firstly, I was being told by someone I don't work for or with (generally my director would tell me) and she's someone I don't really get on with anyway (she's a director tho!) so to begin with I was uncomfortable.
So she tells me I'm getting a pay rise of 5% which equals less than €2k. Last year I got more than twice that. Fair enough, only over the course of the last year my workload has increased substantially and I have kept up with it (to the point of not taking lunch breaks so I can finish things --- admittedly this is my own prerogative). I explain this to her and she shrugs and says that's the same increase everyone in my position within the company is getting. I explain that's fine but I do have a different job spec to them and I have more work than they do. She says she will take it up with HR. (Which I'm not sure she will because we don't get on very well. Also, I'm not sure she'll fight very hard for me). I was tempted to ask what the directors were getting as I know they sure as hell aren't getting 5%. But I resisted the urge to lose the rag (wasn't easy).
Anyway I guess I just wanted to rant. I feel so upset because I have given these tools about as much as an employee can give and I have made them look damn good whilst doing it. Money aside, I feel disrespected.
Argh.
It's bonus/pay review time in our company. Last year I had a great bonus and a pretty good pay rise.
Just got pulled in this morning to be told the news. Firstly, I was being told by someone I don't work for or with (generally my director would tell me) and she's someone I don't really get on with anyway (she's a director tho!) so to begin with I was uncomfortable.
So she tells me I'm getting a pay rise of 5% which equals less than €2k. Last year I got more than twice that. Fair enough, only over the course of the last year my workload has increased substantially and I have kept up with it (to the point of not taking lunch breaks so I can finish things --- admittedly this is my own prerogative). I explain this to her and she shrugs and says that's the same increase everyone in my position within the company is getting. I explain that's fine but I do have a different job spec to them and I have more work than they do. She says she will take it up with HR. (Which I'm not sure she will because we don't get on very well. Also, I'm not sure she'll fight very hard for me). I was tempted to ask what the directors were getting as I know they sure as hell aren't getting 5%. But I resisted the urge to lose the rag (wasn't easy).
Anyway I guess I just wanted to rant. I feel so upset because I have given these tools about as much as an employee can give and I have made them look damn good whilst doing it. Money aside, I feel disrespected.
Argh.