Most liked posts in thread: Got my raise at work today.

^^^ Not everywhere Justa Jim....
My employees don't leave.....
Longest term has been with me for 34 years..... Shortest term 16 years (latest hire)...
I provide health care.... average pay raise $1,500 - $2,000/employee.... Plus year end bonus for everyone.... Even during lean years....
Company is still run by the original family that started it in 1885...

Simple business philosophy...
Customer: Make a good product.... Quickly... At a fair price...
Employee: Treat your workers like good tools.... Keep em oiled and in good working condition.....
Suppliers: Pay your bills on time...

I'm guessing my business is the oldest family run business still operating here in Columbus.... Pretty sure about this... At least one of the oldest

Got this sitting at the reception desk....





Ummmmm..... I don't have one of these parachutes if I get canned either.... http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/17/technology/yahoo-golden-parachute/

 

Be glad you got a raise. Some places aren't. You have to look at raises by percentage. What percent raise did you get? If it was in the 2-4% area that is actually a pretty good raise in this day and age at most places, as far as just a yearly thing. Not moving up and or into a different area etc... School systems in NC haven't had raises in 4-6 years.. So they are actually going in the hole as prices go up each year.. I know it doesn't make you feel any better but like you said maybe it is time to look elsewhere..
Like you I've been where I'm at for 9 years. Company ( our plant alone ) grosses roughly 16-20 Million dollars a year and us on the production don't get a raises every year and the past couple it has been around 1.5-2.5%

 

My father always told me; "The best time to look for a new job is while you have a job."

 

All I can say is thank god I'm retired.

 

The days of a company wanting an employee to advance, stay with the company and retire with a gold watch are over. Even the military, which use to be a secure bet, is doing the same thing. They dump folks around the 16 year mark and bring in a new private. Sadly, it is the way of the world now days, which is why I am so glad I am old and missed all this.

 

I work in a hospital and on top of the overworked, underpaid and shorthanded conditions I have to deal with Doctors who are motivated by greed and could really care less about the patients now a days. Medicare fraud is all over and it is alive and well. Our health care system in the USA is broken and Obama is not helping it at all. I thought getting in to the Medical field was a smart choice years ago, now I wish I still painted houses.

 

Apok, the best thing you can do for yourself right now, is tuneup that resume. This will get you thinking about your positive attributes and contributions at your present place of employment. It sounds to me like you already have one foot out the door. There is a job/position out there waiting for you.

 

True that!

 

WOW that just sucks.

Did you tell them you will try and not spend it all at once at Lunch.

 

Good luck in your new job search.

 

Might find something better. We get comfortable, and it takes something like this to get us going sometimes.

 

Meanwhile, Chase stock is up nearly 50% last year. You can see where their priorities are when it comes to employee satisfaction vs. shareholder value. What was that famous quote from Gordon Grekko?

 

Is this a consistent trend with raises at your work? I've had a couple of years like that (no raises and no bonuses) and it can make it hard to keep motivated. What do you mean that the environment is restrictive?

 

That is the same philosiphy us workers have but we can't make the employers feel the same.. Granted it is much easier for a smaller company ( number of employees ) to have that thinking becasue you get to know them all better then a company that has 100's of people doing this that and the other. The powers that be haven't even met some of their employees that have been here for years.. There are good companies out there like yours that "gets it" the you take care of me and I'll take care of you thinking. Worked well for years. Now it is all about the rich getting richer and the production people be damned. ( teller, floor guy, etc etc ) I understand that every employee can't make 50, 60, 80 thousand dollars, there has to be the entry level position, but look at say a Wells Fargo Bank. The president is making 15 million or more a year, plus expenses, stocks, bonus etc. and the people at the local branches are between $25,000 teller, maybe $50,000 for a loan officer.. What can that president possibly be doing to earn that kind of money.. Another example is the furniture industry. Lexington NC, used to be a big player in that area. Now they have all shipped it to china to be made and then shipped back. This somehow saves them money, yet it is not passed on to us the comsumer, they the office folks at headquarters just get to keep their jobs while all the production people are in the unemployement line.. This is why they say in the near future there will be no middle class, there will be those at or around the poverty level as it raises up some, and the rich..

 

MM is doing what larger companies use to do and it is paying off for him and his company. Employees are expendable, profits in the owners pocket, are all that is important. Of course MM is of the older generation. A good wage, for a good job and a reasonable profit.

Good job MM.