doomer

960 readers

13 users here now

What is Doomer? :(

It is a nebulous thing that may include but is not limited to Climate Change posts or Collapse posts.

Include sources when applicable for doomer posts, consider checking out [email protected] once in awhile.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Just learned that my 13.3% pay rise to cover 16.7% inflation in the same timespan is actually a 4.6% pay raise. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

By eliminating the “Jahressonderzahlung”, colloquially known as “Weihnachtsgeld”, which effectively was a 13th monthly wage at the end of the year, my workplace effectively upended the minimum wage increase from 2022 and the subsequent pay raise for my pay grade, which is barely more than minimum wage anyway. God, I hate being poor. Time to organise some people.

all 12 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Look at those words. Ridiculous country, ridiculous language.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The colonists won and did whatever possible to destroy everything that was good

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry can you please express this sentiment in the form of a word with 27 letters in it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Achtenbuegensheinglooppyploopyfartyballshitballsdumbstupuduglyremovedolacountry

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I read theory https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

This is so true and so funny.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean pay cut in the title?

Something similar happened to my friend, he was excited about a pay raise at the end of the year but I showed him it actually was effectively a cut as it was below the yearly inflation. Pretty bad times.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It was still a nominal raise, but it was basically negligible in nominal terms and not even remotely sufficient to counteract inflation over the same period.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My last couple years' raises were 3%, 3%, 2%, 0%. Every time they make sure to include a bit saying "This is a merit-based increase, it is not a cost of living increase". Okay, so where's the COLA raise you fucks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I am paid according to a collective agreement. And in the position I’m in, I don’t exactly have much bargaining power unless I can organise a substantial number of people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

:-) I got a raise from $19/hr to $20.75/hr in March 2022, which is close to 10% (it's actually like 9.61% but whatever - they didn't wanna give me an extra $0.15/hour or just even it out to $21/hr and yet the bastards wonder why I refuse to participate in the weekly virtual coffee hour)

i think inflation outpaced that increase by June 2022. I still haven't seen any real tangible benefit to the extra $1.75/hr. That additional ~$300/month just barely covers the higher cost of groceries I suppose.... (or at least that's what I tell myself when it's near the end of the month, my landlord is sending me rent requests, and I'm wondering how I spent like $1400 after tax in between the 15th and the 1st obama-spike )