What a kick in the BUT!

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Anonymous

02/09/21 at 11:28PM UTC

What a kick in the BUT!

After an unprecedented year; working from home, harder and longer than I ever worked in the last 20+ years with this company. Balancing the best I know how...work & home life. Truthfully, by the skin of my teeth. Management is fully aware of the inflexibility of mutual companies and yet the fluid need by clients, coupled with their expectations versus reality. I entered my video performance review, not expecting to be glorified for what I managed to accomplish this past year, but just a little bit more of you did good in the face of a difficult year. What I got is you’ve always consistently been detailed oriented, you have a very high retention of clients, now let me poke some holes (some within reason, some just not attainable with the current structure of our unit) and use these to give you the most meager pay increase. Needless to say, I’m discouraged. Yes, I should be grateful that I’m employed and I am. But I just can’t get past the meager salary increase when I’m told our department’s revenue increased this year and the spin involved in this was just incredible. Thanks for listening, I needed to it get out..

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Pam Romero

02/10/21 at 4:27AM UTC

I understand how you feel. It’s just not a good feeling when this happens. I can share, as a Compensation Professional, that survey data for merit increases is about 2.9%. Usually that’s the starting point and from there companies usually have to scale back, even when they are doing well, in order to utilize money for other areas. I’m sharing this so you can have a different perspective on merit increases. Having said that, you should ask your manager for other ways to reward you, if they truly don’t have money on the budget to give you a bigger raise. For example, they can pay for you to attend a conference in your area of expertise or other training. Maybe you can share a few ideas and seek approval. Or ask them to pay for your membership to a group related to your job. There are non-monetary ways to reward employees when there is not enough money to do it through a merit increase.

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Anonymous

02/10/21 at 11:03AM UTC

I received just that, which is less than I received in the past. It’s just unfortunate.

Anonymous

02/10/21 at 9:58AM UTC

Unfortunately, when you've been with a company that long you become taken for granted. The management has come to expect a consistent performance and has forgotten your value in a lot of ways. I'm so sorry that they can't see it.

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Anonymous

02/10/21 at 11:05AM UTC

This is exactly how I feel.

Samantha

02/10/21 at 1:30PM UTC

I'm sure you're doing a great job. I also had goals this year that I was planning on doing and couldn't because of the COVID situation, and my boss told me that I shouldn't be making excuses and trying to do everything I can. Some of my goals relied on my customers doing certain things, and they didn't because of COVID - I was frustrated by this and the fact that he wasn't being more understanding. I recently was listening to the Audiobook version of Radical Candor - it talked about how you typically have two different types of employees - Rock Stars & Super Stars. Everyone at certain points in their lives will likely be either. The Rock Stars are the employees that are consistently performing and always doing their best, they are on a steady increase. The Super Stars are the ones that are over achieving, and pushing to make moves forward. Neither is better than the other, but the problem is that a lot of managers only recognize the Super Stars and don't acknowledge the Rock Stars as doing a good job. This really resonated with me and paying attention to my Direct Reports and how they're doing. I think you're a Rock Star and your manager is maybe not acknowledging that fact. Keep doing what you're doing - and if you're really unhappy, try finding a different job where your consistency is appreciated.