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Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?
Lam1969 writes "Computerworld just released their latest salary survey, and it finds that IT worker bees have once again only received small raises. The article notes, "IT raises still lagged slightly behind the average of about 3.2% for all U.S. workers as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the majority of respondents (69%) said their 2004 base salary increased from one year ago, 31% experienced either no change in salary or had their pay cut." It goes on to quote LAN specialist Stephen Noisseau as saying, "I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles ... I'll take 4% over nothing. We're getting basically cost-of-living raises.""
Democracy is about working together to be treated fairly
I've never heard this definition before. How do you arrive at this?
But no one tells me to shut-up
Shut up. (Doesn't mean you have to listen, I guess, but I win 1-0)
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FYI, the CPI doesn't really include things like food and the price of gas. Also if your car has a new type of computer that raises the price 10%, that's also not counted in inflation because its value has gone up 10%. There are all sorts of hedonic adjustments for technology. Not to menaion that your housing is calculated in a way that is WAY underpriced.
In sum if your pay, your bank account, or any of your investments make under 6% you are getting screwed and will eventually be nickled and dimed to death.
Also, I hate to tell you this but it will not get better. Between federal, state, corporate, housing, and credit cards, there is over 400K of debt for every worker in the USA and that doesn't even include things like public education that must be funded anyhow. They can not pay it back without a default, or printing up money and screwing you over.
Unfortunately, now our creditors from other countries arround the world are starting to catch on - if they do, credit will dry up and they will panic out of the dollar as the world's defacto currency causing the US dollar to collapse and cease to exist as a currency. Watch out, it seems in the markets that all freakin hell is about to break loose!
My experinece:
Conservatives have been those who've lifted themselves up from the poor to middle class.
Liberals -- upper class snobs who've never worked a day in their lives.
The solution? Somewhere in the middle -- some government programs with a healthy dose of personal responsibility.
Perhaps you should work your way towards being a CEO instead of just bitching about it, then?
I've been in many different atmospheres over the past few years. However, one thing has been constant across all of them. The people that stay get screwed.
You know the guy. There's always someone who's been with the company for years, making less than everyone else around him and working more hours. He might claim to be looking for a new job, but you know that either he isn't looking, or that the length of time he's in the same environment has seriously tarnished his resume.
Given an opportunity, a company will gladly take advantage of these loyal resources, and therefore, they get screwed. Is this the company's fault? No. These people were born to be screwed over. You're only worth what you can convince someone to pay you. So complaining that you're not being paid what you're worth is a lie unless you've gotten someone to pay you more.
Optimal time to stay with a company? I think 1-2 years for me. I usually find that I'm bored of the environment by that time anyway.