I don't care if it's not Christmas anymore. It still counts.

[apocalypsos]

So I got a letter from work today. Here's the new rules at work:

1. No raises this year. (Oh, no! I won't get another twenty cents an hour?! However will I live?)
2. No pay-for-performance this year. (Not a surprise. In fact, I'm a little surprised they started giving it out in the first place.)
3. We have to use our vacation and personal days by the end of the year or we won't be paid for them. (HA! I love that. Everybody I work with usually hoards the hell out of their vacation time so they can use them as a Christmas bonus and Jess and I are usually like, "Fuck it, we're using them." And then we get picked on.)
4. We're only getting overtime pay for hours we work. Like, if we take vacation time for a four-day shift and then take the next four days to work, we won't get paid the overtime rate for those days because they're the only ones we'll have actually worked. (HA! They think we're getting overtime this year.)
5. They're not matching our 401k anymore. (I wish I could care about that, but ... eh, whatever. I'd better die young, because this investment/retirement shit? Right over my head.)

Hey, as long as I still have a job occasionally. *crosses fingers*

Comments

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

Husband's work is doing 1, 2, and 5. 3 and 4 may be have already been in place.

I heard that he works for one of the top 5 retail companies in peril this year. Sigh.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I sure do love a job market where the employers hold all the cards.... Or do I??

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

*eyes 1, 3, and 5* You sure we don't work for the same company? Ahh, I love our economy.

[puchuupoet.livejournal.com]

One of my jobs has done most of these, the lack of raise being the most recent (although not greatly missed, as last year it ranged from three to fifteen cents an hour). We also get the added bonus of getting our hours cut, getting written up if we get any type of overtime, and having customers ask us when we're closing.

And my coworkers keep telling me that this is the best job that I'll ever have, and why have a second job anyways, that's what boyfriends/fiances are for. *eyeroll*

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

At least they asked whether or not you wanted to contribute to your 401(k). Last year, my company decided to implement an opt-OUT 401(k) program, the fact of which wasn't clearly explained at all. So the first any of us learned about this was when 5% of our paychecks had gone missing into a 401(k) we neither asked for nor wanted.

...Yeah, that was a fun month of yelling at the payroll manager.