Am I Nutz - Or Are They?

Got our Projected raise in the paycheck today - 1.35% increase and no increase in overtime for Saturday mornings when I want to do stuff.
What's the COLA?

PS: Have been with this joint for 36 years - But it get's harder every year. Letter going out in the morning (I think)

End of Rant.

I haven't raised my hourly rate for 5 1/2 years.
Probably can't untill maybe the economy comes back to full employment - if then.

no raise 5 or 6 years .
the big shots were down for the pasifing "of the grunts " .
no raise , but our side did great . keep it up work harder for the company .
but no raise no bonus .
yous are not the only one been there now 17 years .

The tight creep that I work for hasn't given me a raise in almost 12 years.


Oh wait, I'm self-employed. Dang management just doesn't get it.

Tom in TN

Been self employed as an engineering consultant for 20 years now and probably raised my hourly rates twice in that time. Don't really do much by the hour, prefer to define a scope and work off of a lump sum fee when I can. Having said all that, my income has been really down the last year or two. Seems I keep working longer and harder for less and less.

Just saying a steady check is not the worst thing in the world.

~Kirk

Count your blessings...At least you still have a job.So many people today have had to take a 'paycut' or completely lost thier jobs

I am a small dairy farmer and I am still paying back money that was lost in 2009 due to poor milk price and this years dry weather will make things even worse.Be glad for a job where you get a take home check each week.

Janitors at our school system lost shift
differential for 2ed shift...but at least on that
shift they don't have to wipe up vomit, or wet
pants puddles

It's different in the public sector.

Dean
Livin The Dream

You are!
Hard to feel too bad for you.

I'm self employed,one of the evil profiteers our government thinks makes too much money.

I've had to cut employees and do the work myself. I didn't take a check out of my company for over a year. Hoping the economy would turn around. Had a guy stomp into my office demanding a raise or quit. This was about the time my reserves ran out. I let him quit. He's about done with his 99 weeks of unemployment and asked for his job back twice.

I'm literally working twice as hard for half as much money as I used to make sitting behind my desk in the ac.

I took a temp job to fill in for a guy that had heart sugery. When he came back, we finished out the week working together. When he told me that he had been with this company for twenty-four years, I replied that he had been loyal and stayed with them. He said "Yea, I'm pretty good. I'm already up to 12 bucks an hour."

Read this. THROW THEM ALL OUT by Peter Schweizer

It tells how congress enriches themselves with insider training land deals and cronyism.

I guess we all sleep in our beds after we make them. It is always hard to determine what the economy and government will be doing a few decades from the day we enter the work force.

I took on the job of teaching our youth in a high school environment. Went from $40,000 a year down to $14,700 in 1980. I was laid off too many times at the higher salary and thought that a regular paycheck, though smaller, was worth it. I spent 31 years teaching high school kids and retired at the perfect time a bit over a year ago.

No more government intervention, no more administration making rules they refuse to enforce. Now I drive a school bus for the kids I used to teach. Decent hours, decent pay and summers off. The goofy part is that I can draw a bus driver's pension because of a political position I held for eight years.

As you can see from my screen name I'm in Wisconsin- the "gravy train" for public sector employees has been thinned a bit here. Hopefully the election this fall will return our state senate back to the nnalert, if not maybe they'll have the guts to hide in Illinois like the nnalert did when the nnalert ran the senate. Our governor's clipping the wings of the public unions has resulted in us hearing two years of temper tantrums and recall elections courtesy of the overpaid under-worked whiners. Now if our Governor really had a pair he'd move the capital somewhere outside of Madison so the abundant judges in Madison can't put injunctions on any piece of legislature they don't like. One more thing do you need photo ID to get unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps or if your stopped while driving your car? Sorry for the rant, yes the economy stinks and some people have been doing more with less (a lot less if you adjust for inflation) it just doesn't seem like government workers (except the military) are feeling their share of the pain the country is going through. I saw a USDA newsletter was encouraging all USDA employees to have a meatless day to help with global warming. How about we write our representatives and senators demanding all federal employees have pay-free Mondays to help with the deficit?


From a right wing radical hiding in the Northwoods

funny you mentioned cola,a man i worked with said when he finally got a good paying job he was started out at a little above his previous job's pay scale and told if he worked out he would received an adjustment on his hourly rate in thirty day's,he said sure enough he got a raise in 30 day's, then 60 day's latter he got another one plus .50 for cola he said he couldn't figure out what cola meant thought it might be for soft drink allowance but didn't say anything about it until he was able to talk to his foreman, foreman explained what it was about,he said he thought he had really moved up he was making nearly 7 dollars an hour

COLA, Cost of Living Adjustment

I for one am tired of hearing how the rich farmers get all of the big goverment money thrown at them.
i heard recently 70 to 80 percent of USDA money goes for things like FOOD STAMPS like that goes in any farmers pocket

Back in the 1990's when farming was tough - flooded fields and low crop prices - my wife to be was all pissy one day, she only got a 40 cent raise. And a day later a friend of mine was all upset, he only got a 1.5% raise.

I was kinda stunned by that attitude esp that decade.

You do what you want, but a job and a raise, and you wanna complain....

--->Paul

We're going through a period of salary compression, for at least the last 15 years. Ever since the gap between the rich & working started to widen. I think they call it smart business? Good thing there's no inflation! Good luck to you, at least I made it to retirement. joe-

Before I retired, I worked for a large corp. In 1980 I was making about 30K, base salary. The CEO made about 300K. In 2006, I was making about 60K, base salary. The CEO made 24 million. We have been getting crumbs for a long time.

Be thankful. The place I retired from took a 5% cut 4 years ago and hasn't seen a raise since, along with health care co-pays and loss of HC in retirement.