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Ah, ok, that explains it.
A couple of weeks ago, I got a raise. Yay, me!
I was hired over six years ago for a different position, which quickly became obsolete and I was promoted. They never fixed my pay, however, and I've been making only steady cost-of-living increases every year. I knew I was underpaid, but what can you do in a broke-ass economy?
When the Boss Lady told me about the raise, she said they were finally correcting my pay scale, which is awesome! Today, I found out what is actually happening. They laid off one of the other AAs and I now have her job, too. They gave me a pre-emptive increase so I wouldn't quit when they gave me the extra work load.
One of my biggest complaints about my job is how bored I am, so I'm certainly not complaining about the extra work, and I'd be an idiot to complain about the extra money. I'm just really getting sick of my company's "cloak and dagger" method of doing things. It's getting more and more annoying the longer I'm here. I don't like the work environment it creates. Everyone jumps at their own shadow around here lately.
No real point to this. Just venting and getting it out there so I can happily do my work for the rest of the day like a good little trained monkey.
Re: Ah, ok, that explains it.
I can definitely understand your frustrations, office politics can vary to differeng degrees but it sucks when you don't feel like everything is honest and upfront with the company's intentions. I am glad to hear you get a raise and more responsibilities, those are always good signs that they want to keep you around!
I know that environment all too well. Which is why a 100+ year old company felt it necessary to lay off over half of their employees (including me and FI) without warning. Shady.
I'm glad you've got mo' money and mo' work! I hope the work environment starts to improve.
Dude, that sucks! Both of you at the same time? I was paranoid about this a couple of years ago when they did a round of layoffs that included MH. Luckily, I'm still here.
Yay for more money and more work! Boo for behind the scenes office politics.