By: Tired of living paycheck to paycheck

Tired of living paycheck to paycheck
Thu, 05 May 2016 13:48:48 +0000

I wish people would understand that this applies to staff too, especially this comment: "I have a good job. .......... I’m happy with it,” he said. “But what happens is the cost of things are constantly going up, and you know for a fact that you’re not valued; what you do is not valued as much as it ought to be.” I see a $7.00 a week raise each and every year (that's my "raise" after taxes). That does not help me much when everything is getting more and more expensive but my salary is barely raising. On my performance review EVERY year, I get 4 "exceptional" ratings on 5 categories (and the 1 that isn't marked exceptional is marked "exceeds expectations"). my OVERALL rating is "exceptional", yet I don't get rewarded for it. But I do see other people in similar positions as mine, get higher raises than me (you can check out what others are getting by going to the Columbus Business First articles that show the salaries every year). I have even spoken to my supervisor and asked for a higher raise and I've still been denied that extra pay. I always ask myself, why do I bother to try to work extra hard the following year if when I already work hard, I don't see anything for my effort (I work just as hard because I want to keep my job, but it's just not fair).