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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Does an average of 1% raise motivate you?
Anonymous wants to know if an average of 1% raise motivate you to excel.
It's a joke and all while ULM gets bonus checks and big raises for downsizing, cutting old people and hiring the young at half the wages whereby they'll work them into the grave with no defined pension program and when they get close to retirement, they'll screw them too. It's all good. Welcome to OWO.
Any raise is better than what a lot of people are facing elsewhere: furloughs, givebacks, layoffs. Many of us are motivated by having interesting, important work and are holding on through the bumpy ride.
LLNL has been in a death spiral for years. Each year management siphon off more research funds, staff morale is non-existent, facilities are dirtier each day. Perhaps its time to stop worrying about 1% raises and think about one's sanity. Away from this toxic hell-hole, with its worthless parasitic managers, life can be enjoyable. Use the lab to get marketable skills and experience then move on.
And another comment about "being thankful". That's like thanking a drug dealer for the contaminated heroin he's selling you.
Leaving LLNL is painful. But the only way you can grow is facing hard reality. Otherwise you just keep taking the happy drugs until it kills you.
After years of bad pay, lousy leadership, insults, and abuse any sane person should be seriously questioning why they still want to continue what is at best a highly toxic relationship.
Take the deep breath and make a break for the door. The sooner you do, the happier you'll be once you discover life outside the Lab.
I took a 5% pay cut. But then again I moved to a place where the cost of housing is 30% less. I also received a 4% pay raise last year. AND I still get to do interesting stuff in the national interest.
Enjoy the half percent raise; gosh, if I made $20K per month and got the whole half percent that would be $100/mo! Well that would offset the ~$200/month increase for Anthem's health insurance coverage. Trouble is, most of us don't make that and will be faced with the insurance increase of $100 per month. Well, I guess the fee and taxes have to come from somewhere. Inspiring raise.
12 comments:
Of course!!
That was sarcasm in case you missed it...
Answer:NO
It's a joke and all while ULM gets bonus checks and big raises for downsizing, cutting old people and hiring the young at half the wages whereby they'll work them into the grave with no defined pension program and when they get close to retirement, they'll screw them too. It's all good. Welcome to OWO.
Why, that 1% is just the icing on the moral/motivation cake.
Layoffs
More Rules
More Regulations
Ambiguous Mission
An ever widening gap between upper management and the workers
and of course
1% raise (if you've been nice)
Yup, that's what gets my motor started in the morning, raring to go to help save the nation for another day.
Any raise is better than what a lot of people are facing elsewhere: furloughs, givebacks, layoffs. Many of us are motivated by having interesting, important work and are holding on through the bumpy ride.
LLNL has been in a death spiral for years. Each year management siphon off more research funds, staff morale is non-existent, facilities are dirtier each day. Perhaps its time to stop worrying about 1% raises and think about one's sanity. Away from this toxic hell-hole, with its worthless parasitic managers, life can be enjoyable. Use the lab to get marketable skills and experience then move on.
Well +1% is better than the -100% that 10% of Californians got this year! Be thankful of that.
I have to agree with 8:37 PM.
Look at your raises. They are basically telling you to go away. It is a form of constructive discharge.
And another comment about "being thankful". That's like thanking a drug dealer for the contaminated heroin he's selling you.
Leaving LLNL is painful. But the only way you can grow is facing hard reality. Otherwise you just keep taking the happy drugs until it kills you.
After years of bad pay, lousy leadership, insults, and abuse any sane person should be seriously questioning why they still want to continue what is at best a highly toxic relationship.
Take the deep breath and make a break for the door. The sooner you do, the happier you'll be once you discover life outside the Lab.
Pay at LLNL is not bad. Most people (including me) took a pay cut when they left. You're deluding yourself.
I took a 5% pay cut. But then again I moved to a place where the cost of housing is 30% less. I also received a 4% pay raise last year. AND I still get to do interesting stuff in the national interest.
Enjoy the half percent raise; gosh, if I made $20K per month and got the whole half percent that would be $100/mo! Well that would offset the ~$200/month increase for Anthem's health insurance coverage. Trouble is, most of us don't make that and will be faced with the insurance increase of $100 per month. Well, I guess the fee and taxes have to come from somewhere. Inspiring raise.
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