Don’t forget the company meetings where leadership says things like “this is the best quarter we have ever had”, along with “we need to work harder to stay competitive”. Sigh.
“Despite making record profits, we still didn’t hit EBITDA this year, therefore no bonuses or raises. Merry Christmas!”
That’s not true. The senior management team will be getting raises in line with inflation and also huge bonuses for those record profits. Not to mention their share value increasing.
Danny-fucking-Kaye
Oh yeah check that box too, for me
You guys need to unionize and fight for raises that exceed the inflation rate. Here in Brazil, we have this in almost every type of labor.
Five years ago, the right-wing began dismantling the unions’ monetization system in an attempt to break them, and they also raised the retirement age. However, the unions are still doing their job, and every year we receive a raise above inflation.
The current left-wing government has already said that they are working to recover a monetization system for unions. They are studying a way to implement this in a manner that will make it difficult for a future government to repeal.
Some industries like programming are not quite as simple to get unionization going. Pretty much only public sector jobs have unions when it comes to programming. I wish that weren’t the case. On the flip side though, the abundance of programming jobs (when there isn’t a damn near tech recession) makes switching jobs to get a huge raise pretty clearly the way to go.
USAians are overall too dumb to figure all this out
You seem to be forgetting the 10 other reasons why relative wages are falling behind aside from ignorance
In many places they wouldn’t be falling behind if dirt poor people weren’t frothy-mouthed cheering for trust fund inheritor babies who only pay attention to hot escorts and dad’s hedge fund lawyers.
The cult of personality that adheres to the philosophy of being “self-made” doesn’t help, but anti-union practices by the US’ ruling class have been exercised since the industrial revolution, and meanwhile government has hardly ever stepped in to regulate or break monopolies.
When theres literally people in the UK screaming about NHS workers getting a 5% pay rise when NHS workers earn significantly less than they would doing the same work in the private sector and considering that people actually get free healthcare from the people wjo got this pitiful raise is absolutely soul destroying. Especially when you take this meme into account.
Those people always seem to ignore the fact that 5% increase on sod all is still sod all.
"We’re making record profits!!!..
…No Steve, you can’t have a raise. Here’s a bag of Fritos!"
We made record profits but we projected unattainable goals so you can’t have a raise
awwww man…
Steve, if you keep complaining with your coworkers, you’ll be fired. You know what, you’re fired. And your coworkers, too, the company can’t keep up with your expenses.
In Belgium we have automatic wage indexation based on inflation of certain product. Some right wing parties want to get rid of it, but luckily it’s still here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index_(Belgium)
Sounds like right wing is just as evil and stupid in the east as it is in the west…! :-)
Do you think Belgium is an eastern nation?
Everything is east. Even here is east of here.
That’s relative i guess
I’m in France, and I think yes.
And remember, 10 years from now, you’ll be nostalgic for this shitty time.
If a climate change superstorm, AI, riots, famine, etc haven’t gotten around to killing you yet at least. Lucky dead bastards.
Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.
I remind myself of this every time I start feeling nostalgic.
Cool old C10 truck? Wait a minute those things were $200 any day of the week when I was 18
Many employers in my country are now just giving a raise to their senior executives , management and above , while keeping the low level employee wages stagnant !
Yay, Now I’m not losing money as fast.
It would be funny if it didn’t hurt so much. Rent is too high, grocery bill has me intermittent fasting, and I walk/bike instead of driving now. Shit is rough out here.
Luckily doing all of those things will solve the problem once and for all!
/s
The companies are wrecking earth, not us.
9.1? Jajajajajajajajaja (laughs in argentinian 120% yearly inflation rate)
Not to be insensitive, but how do you even survive?
They are using dollar to escape the inflation
That makes sense. Must be tough though.
The productive capabilities of the country haven’t ceased to exist. As long as that remains true, inflation is going to create wacky, uncertain, annoying situations, but it doesn’t have to provoke severe destitution as long as other safety nets are in place.
Job hopping again for this reason. Really wish employers would pay people to stay, unfortunately employer loyalty is non existant.
True story for many people here in Argentina.
'Muricans flexing with 3% inflation
3% raise, huh? How about no raise
My wife just got a 4% pay increase but then the insurance premium went up by 11%. So she really got an 7% pay demotion.
Her insurance premium is 100.2% of her salary?
Maybe, I obviously don’t math well
Ugh, similar here.
