So, we got kind of epically f***ed at work today

This might be a little bit of an overshare. When this all first happened this morning I was more amused than anything else, because I saw it coming. The anger didn't really hit until I was on my way home talking to the guy I carpool with. Now that I have typed this all out I am back to amusement. Mostly at myself because I let myself get sucked in. Anyway enjoy my pain, and laugh with me.

[FONT=&amp]and I mean dry an*l with a sandpaper condom f***ed.
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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Ever since I started at my current position, and even before when I was a contractor, HR has been telling us that there were going to be salary adjustments. I started as an FTE in May of last year after a year as a contractor and myself and a co-worker who started at the same time were told that salary adjustments would be coming in late June. [/FONT][FONT=&amp]
[/FONT][FONT=&amp]June comes around and they tell us no we had to push it 'til September because we were so far off the range.
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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]September comes and no adjustments because the Cybersecurity Director got fired and the CIO was retiring. [/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]November comes around and we are supposed to get our 6 month completed probation raise and we don't because it's so close to year end evals but don't worry salary adjustments are coming up after the first of the year and they will be in the 20% range. They get bumped back to April but they will be in the 20%+ range (I know 20% sounds super high honestly I was think in the 5 to 6% range). In April everyone in IT starts seeing their adjustments except Cybersecurity, they are pushed again because we are way outside the envelope. Then this week they start giving our managers training on how to roll out the salary adjustments and new career architecture. Has anyone ever worked at a company where the train managers on how to break good news? I haven't.
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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Today they told us no salary changes. To say people are upset would be an understatement. [/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]I have to say I have been expecting this for quite awhile, and have been telling my co-workers since about last August that there weren't going to be any salary adjustments.

My reasoning - They have gone back and done the numbers a couple times. In my experience they only do that when they are trying to justify not bringing you up to the industry standard. Also they have continually pushed the adjustments off. Again I have only seen that happen when the company is trying to avoid pay raises. Finally the CIO has done nothing but talk about finances and the needed to cut personnel costs by about 20% since starting here. My bosses boss had a skip level with us the other day and assured us that this was just an exercise, but that's b*****it. You don't do s**t like that as "just an exercise". Finally like I said earlier this week they made my boss go to training on how to discuss they new career architecture and salary adjustments.
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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Right then I knew for sure that we were going to be bent over and humped within an inch of our lives. [/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Today we got confirmation. We had an all hands with the CSD and during the portion where he was discussing career architecture he told us "Salaries are not going to change" and when someone brought up that for almost 2 years HR has been promising salary adjustments his response was "Well, that's not going to happen". [/FONT][FONT=&amp]

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]It's not even the money. I mean for some of my co-workers the money is a much bigger deal. They have families and house payments and such. I don't. I mean, I wouldn't mind making more money, but it's not my driving factor. At this point it's about the blatant disrespect. I mean if a year ago they had just said we've looked at the numbers and we don't see the need for an adjustment, that would have been cool. Instead they have just continually strung this out, basically lying to us every step of the way.
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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]This comes two days after our meeting where they were trying to find out why our employee satisfaction survey scores were so low and 5 minutes after a big spiel on accountability, transparency and ethics. Anyone else see the disconnect?

(A couple co-workers come to this site and if I have messed up the timeline they can correct me but I am pretty confident in the overall narrative arc)

(Edit 2: Edit one was for a formatting error, this is an observation - Wow, I was really torqued a half hour ago. I'm re-reading this now and the repetition and lack of structure are really really bad. I apologize.)
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PersianImmortal

cshkuru wrote: »

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[/FONT][FONT=&amp]It's not even the money. I mean for some of my co-workers the money is a much bigger deal. They have families and house payments and such. I don't. I mean, I wouldn't mind making more money, but it's not my driving factor. At this point it's about the blatant disrespect. I mean if a year ago they had just said we've looked at the numbers and we don't see the need for an adjustment, that would have been cool. Instead they have just continually strung this out, basically lying to us every step of the way.
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I feel you, the disrespect is a big point for me too. I was once at an organization that was lauding itself over giving us "raises" that were so small they didn't even account for annual inflation... I remember at the time thinking, I would rather they didn't even give me a raise at all, than insult me by giving me such a pathetic increase and expecting me to be grateful. Needless to say, I started looking for other positions pretty soon after that... If you decide to start looking elsewhere, I hope you find yourself at an organization that treats you right!

Squished

I received a promotion and generous raise June 1st of last year because I was long overdue for it. Unfortunately the company didn't have the money so they promised it by September 1 when the fiscal year rolls. Sept 1 came, no money still. Boss said we'll revisit Jan 1. Jan 1 came, no money. Boss said the earliest we can revisit is September 1 this year. So that's where I am now, the earliest I'll possibly see it is September 1 this year, 16 months after actually receiving it and there is 0 change it's retroactive.

I certainly feel your pain and while the money is much needed for my family with my son in daycare, the disrespect and not valuing your employees aspect of it hurts even more. I've been there for 9 years, it's been kind of a slap in the face and I've reduced my productivity accordingly until adjustments are made.