Sometimes I really love my job

[TroyTheAverage]

Yesterday I went in for my yearly (apparently) review. I've been there for almost 8 months now. Well the whole review was excellent. It was the usual stuff of how I am a big asset to the company blah blah blah. Then they hit me at the end with my raise. I was concerned about this because I have heard a lot of people were not getting raises that have already had their reviews. Well one guy who went in before me come out and I got to talk to him for a few minutes and he told me he got a .25 cent raise. I thought to myself if that is all they are going to give me I was going to find a new job.

Cut to the end of the review and they went over how other companies pay their employees on average for the job that I do. Well, they gave me the sheet to sign that had my raise on it. I'm expecting to see .25 cents. I was wrong. They gave me a $1.50 raise to move me up to $14 an hour and it is retroactive to January 1st. I will be receiving back pay all the way up to the sixteenth of March when it is paid out and when it will reflect on my check.

I was told it was confidential because not everyone in the place and especially on my line was getting a raise and only a few people in the entire plant were getting that much of a raise. I was ecstatic walking out of the review. The only thing that was hard was lying to my friends on the paint line about how much I got. I just told them .25 cents so they would think I was making the same as them. :sw:

Then I get home and the girlfriend had gotten her taxes back and we paid off what we had left on our place and were going to go get new phones in the coming days. I don't know if today can top yesterday.

 

[Gentleman Jake]

Man that is awesome bro..its good to hear ur doing so well

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[W-olf]

I would say congratulations but not sure it's in order for a raise like that you earned it my good sir but I will anyway . Congrats on the raise and a outstanding job too apparently .

 

[TroyTheAverage]

Thanks guys. It was definitely a shocker. Things are starting to progress a little better now thankfully. Hopefully with paying off some stuff we won't be living paycheck to paycheck.

 

[Postman Dave]

Congrats man, nice to hear things are going well for you.

 

[Fuji Vice]

Congratulations sir, apparently your efforts haven't gone unnoticed. It's always nice to be able to get rid of debt as well, so I'm very happy for you.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

It is awesome. Were talking of taking a mini vacation sometime next year. Maybe 4 days or so and driving out east. I was thinking Toronto and she was thinking Washington D.C.

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

Good job man same thing happened to me in my review last year. Where do you work if you don't mind me asking?

 

[TroyTheAverage]

A small locally owned business called United Alloy Inc.

 

[Catfish Billy]

Somebody's been doing a lot of work under the table >:-D

Anyways, congrats. Happy to see that your work has paid off.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

It is a company owned by a woman, so yeah. If I was under the table doing work, I wouldn't mind. :shifty:

 

[Castiel]

Lol, I like how you told everyone else you just got the .25! That's awesome dude.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

There is a reason for that Cas. Not many people got more than a .50 cent raise. I was told to keep it confidential.