• glimse@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve taken a pay cut two years in a row for that reason. Last year was somewhat understandable with the insane inflation but this year kind of stung

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      6 months ago

      How is taking a pay cut when there’s massive inflation even remotely understandable? Inflation means that they need to pay you more, not less; your costs are rising.

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        6 months ago

        Businesses don’t care about your costs. They care about paying as little as possible for as good a quality as they can.

        Same way you don’t care if your grocery store mega chain got hacked and lost $300 million, that’s not your problem, if they raise the price of bread you’ll go somewhere else.

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        6 months ago

        I mean it’s understandable that they didn’t give everyone 6.5% raises. That’s a pretty huge raise

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      6 months ago

      Find another job. You’ll quickly find out if you are worth the raise you wanted. My bet is you are.

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        I’ve got my feelers out there but I’m gonna stick it out here for another year - currently working on a certification to switch to a higher-paid position and the company is paying for it