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It doesn't pay to be a hard worker.
Oh but it does.
It's just the same rate as being not a hard worker
It generally doesn't pay any better than just scraping by with minimum effort.
Also, it really does pay to be a hard worker, it's just someone else that is getting paid for your hard work.
Depends on the company.. when you don’t have stupid management, they know that you can work faster because of your know how of processes in place at the company, that relearning that stuff to a new guy costs more money than pay you more salary.
That is way, in my country, it is normal that salaries go up the longer you stay and the older you get.
I guess our social structures helped to get here, like workers right laws and a unemployed “insurance” where you can register as soon as you hear that you get fired (you have multiple month (depending on how long you already worked at that employer) until the work contract is nullified). You will get about 80% in salary, but you have to proof that you are searching for a new job and you have to take one if you get one. Not doing that results in days without money from that “insurance”.
So this takes the pressure from the workers on how they talk with employers depending their salary.
If your wages don't go up with at least the rate of inflation, there's an effective paycut every year
Anything less than 10% a year, I switch jobs. The switch then brings a bigger raise.
This is what I did anyway, now the job market is so shitty I'd be willing to stick out an extra year or 2 at an otherwise great employer even if the raise is not enough. Gives you a different kind of bump for the next switch because now you're no longer an annual job hopper, you might stick around for 3-4. Gives you a bit of edge in the eyes of at least some bosses.
Yes, this an important point as well that I forgot to mention