Pay Rise
Yesterday the weather was foul, the sea was doing its level best to repopulate the land by air drop and i was feeling pretty low due to a combination of crappy training at work and lack of beer/physical contact with Mrs Pieman.

I was busy at my desk, hard at work, taking calls and of course reading the obligatory B3TA when my trepidation levels suddenly shot through the roof. Our MD had pulled up in our little backwater car park in his rather plush BMW. This is not a usual occurrence as our sweatshop/Call centre is not generally on the radar of higher management firmly entrenched as they are in our head office building.
Trepidation levels took another leap when my team leader announced that we were all going into a meeting with said MD.
"I'll get my P45 then" I said jokingly to my boss. Worryingly she didn't laugh.

We all traipsed through the cold and the rain like good little sheep into the meeting room next door and sat down in the leather effect chairs to await the pronouncement from our glorious leader.
Grimly he shuffled in and parked himself on the edge of the desk. Not looking any of us in the face he started to speak
"Due to the financial climate (complete with other management speak terms) all pay rises this year are suspended."
No much needed pay rise to the pittance i get for the Pieman this year...
Now ok i know i still have a job (for the moment) so things could be worse but all that was running through my mind while he was speaking was
"I Bet you still get your big yearly bonus"

Unbelievably he then had the affront to launch into a speech saying how much the hard work we had done over the year was appreciated and that he would need our continued commitment and motivation in order for us to be successful.

Why does it seem to be that none of these companies realise that the best way to keep your staff productive and motivated is to recognize their hard work by paying a decent wage? Theme days and pats on the back do not pay the bills in a recession.

Sorry for the rant and lack of punnage i am past the cheesed off stage and into badly needing a drink phase


EDIT:- Bad days plus B3ta not a winning combo. I will shut up now.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:33, 2 replies)

pay rise?
How motivating would it be for them to give you a pay rise and then have to fire a few others as they have less money coming in? Wake up man, even the local unions (and they're obscenely powerful and stroppy in Australia) have agreed to forego a negotiated pay rise as it will mean they're more likely to have jobs to go to for the rest of the year (hopefully).
( SteamedCleaner, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:48, closed)

agree
Yep I know what you're saying and i am not stupid. As i said I would rather have a job at the end of the day and no redundancies in the company. What i object to is people expecting us to swallow the news about no pay rise in the same mouthful as a speech about motivation
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 21:32, closed)