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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.""
Limousine liberals are those who have inherited a lot of money, don't know what it's like to work for it, and feel guilty about it. To try to relieve their guilt, they favor massive government programs to help the poor. With all their money, they could just set up some charities, like some of them do. But most importantly, they want to force others to "donate" their money via taxation. The taxes they propose are on the upper-earning working class, not the elite who already have their money. In other words, now that I've got mine, I don't want anyone else getting theirs. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are perfect examples of this.
The funny thing. I honestly believe I got a 2% raise last year. That is what everyone says the raises were. I was doing some record keeping this weekend and noticed that I actually got a 8.25% raise last year.
If you're too stupid to calculate your raise when it arrives, I doubt your performance will be missed when you leave.