I did get a raise but we also hired like 5 new people... But I still do the same amount of work... Which was already too much...

Isn't the last statement contradictory?

@GiddyNaya mine or the comics?

@donuts "Because the hiring budget is larger than the retention budget"...
Isn't that a more reason to give a raise? 🤔

@GiddyNaya hiring is different from the retention budget. So example case is retention: $0. Hiring: $100.

You can't give anyone a raise but you can hire.

@GiddyNaya it’s basically the reason why people change jobs instead of taking raises , you end up in the absurd situation where there is no budget for giving a raise higher than let’s say + 0.5k a year, but there is the budget to hire someone of your level for + 5-10k a year

And then bullshit ensues. Like getting rehired by some different department in the same company in order to ask avoid losing an employee and being able to offer X as salary when signing a new contract.

Wonderful.

This actually happened with me.

Fuckers had enough cash to hire 2 people and both of them having more salary than me.

Total amount spend was 3X my salary.

And yet they did not give me a decent raise and I did more work than rest of the team combined.

I fucking hate corporates.

What if you just start doing less work? Will they fire you? Sounds like they have little idea how much work can be performed in a day, and it sound like you are the benchmark for that number, so leave early and increase your hourly rate just by sipping a cold beer.

That’s the great thing about tech. No one knows what a day’s work actually is. So, we can define it.

“Spent all day looking for that damn bug. Guess I’ll get back to it tomorrow.”

“God. All my VS settings reset. Spent all day fixing that.”

“Shit. My Flange Toprifier stopped working. Took me a day to frizzmosim it.”

@platypus the issue with that is that you are still forced to stay in a cubicle and do nothing while you wait…

@burntoutnoodle know it feels contradictive but let it burn. Picking up others slack makes it your problem and you literally don't get paid for that, also your covering for the asshole.
After that you can bring it up: "So you can't give me a raise but you can spend money on incompetence. Fine, just know I feel unappreciated and no longer happy in my work. What are you going to do about it? And when?"

Start looking for another job if you don't get a decent answer.

Imagine hr explaining it to the ceo…
We fired @burntoutnoodle in order to hire someone with less skill (or same skill and less internal knowledge) than her, but for a higher salary!

HR: improving business since never!