I got a .40 cent raise and don't know how I feel about it
I work 60 hours a week and on my own initiative I correct millions of dollars in mis-charged inventory. So when I heard that raises were coming I got excited. Finally I would be given my due for all the hard work that I've done. My boss surely sees the excellent work that I do and will reward me, right? Forty cents. That is all the raise was. Meanwhile everyone else in the factory has gotten so many raises over the past two years that a person can have no experience, no qualifications, and get hired on full time to make more money then I make, even after the raise. So now I"m conflicted. When I found out I was so angry that I couldn't even speak. I've given two years of my life to becoming a valuable member of the business, and the guy doesn't even value me as much as someone new off the street? IF I PUT THE COMPANY INTERESTS FIRST, THEN THE COMPANY BETTER RETURN THE FAVOR AND PUT MY INTERESTS FIRST. Yet a part of me is thankful for the forty...