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"Work hard and you will be rewarded."
With more work.
My greatest regret in the store I work for, was being reliable.
3 and a half years in, I'm virtually worked to death. And my raise? A petty .25 one.
Yeah, so, anyone who says to me "if you work hard" or "hard work pays off" can royally go fuck themselves dry and hard, unironically.
You've gotten a single 25 cent raise in 3.5 years? Jesus fucking christ. I don't care if you did the bare minimum not to get fired, you deserve more than that. You are making less today than you did when you got hired factoring in inflation. And gesticulates wildly at everything.
Okay so to clarify, what I should've said that this year alone I only got a .25 raise. But that doesn't mean that year by year, my raise has been higher. When I started my job, I think I was at like $18 something. Then it went $18.48 my second year and now I'm at $18.73. So, you can see, how slow the increments are. I have not even capped the maximum hourly I could make for my position.
It doesn't erase the feeling either, that I've gone above and beyond for my store on multiple occasions. Taking on 10 hour shifts, coming in on days where I normally have had off, taking stupid shit on the chin when I knew I was in the right of a situation, enduring and picking up the slack of underdeveloping co-workers. I've done it all and more.
And giving me sugarcoated compliments just will not cut it anymore, rewarding us with fucking snacks in the breakroom for us to stress eat our woes away, won't cut it anymore.
The only reason I'm not even getting better raises is because of attendance. Gee, how could that be? Maybe because I take up so much PTO/PPTO and sacrifice points, so I can fucking have periods of time to take a step back and give myself time to breathe mentally from so much bullshit.
It's all a joke, this working hard thing. I can't believe, I work for a company and in a store where, taking on so much is actually discouraged in a subtle way. Going higher up the management chain, just only earns you more responsibility and barely a bump in pay to accommodate. I've seen it all.
Don't they mean 0.25%? Though yea still...
Someone with your work ethic should be rewarded with increased compensation. Typically, however, that reward is delivered by taking a new job with a higher pay. Help yourself and go find a new job.
"Arbeit macht frei"