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Annual raises. A question for Caltrops. by Mysterio 02/12/2017, 9:46am PST
Curious as to what you think about companies that pull the following:

They say they want to uncouple annual performance reviews from raises. ("Merit increases," they say.) I feel that this is a laughably transparent way for companies to squash employees asking for money due to this timeline...

- You can't ask for a raise before a year is up. "We just hired you! You want MORE money??"
- You can't ask for a raise when it's a year. "We are not coupling performance reviews with raises."
- You can't ask for a raise when it's too close to being after a year, due to the above.
- At maybe.... 18 months you can ask for a raise? I guess? But you better hit the exact day because
- At two years of working there, you're back to the annual performance review and we can't possibly give a raise then.

The thing is, no company is going to look at the market and say, shit, John's been here 8 months but he can go over to Shitcorp and make an extra $8,000. We could make him stay with an extra four. That does not happen. I've had a manager say that they used to give out raises "twice a year in the late 90s" but come on, the tech bubble, when things were REALLY crazy wasn't that long. And this manager lied about everything else he ever said, and that was also 17+ years ago.

Curious if there's anything to debate here, or if it's just a "yeah, companies suck" thing.
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Annual raises. A question for Caltrops. by Mysterio 02/12/2017, 9:46am PST NEW
    "Merit increases" is code for "You're not getting a raise without a promotion" NT by Run. Run far away. 02/12/2017, 10:04pm PST NEW
    I expect a raise every year, I get it most years. by The Happiness Engine 02/13/2017, 3:47pm PST NEW
    Re: Annual raises. A question for Caltrops. by blackwater 02/13/2017, 4:09pm PST NEW
 
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