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Damn, just reading the comments made me realize this isn't a dream. I really thought that this literally never happens and that you need to fight for any raise.
Well that's what being a worthless blue collar factory schmuck does to you I guess... I have to fight for a raise, they literally never just hand them out, and if I transition to a new job I have to take a gigantic pay cut. Promotions from within don't exist either, they just hire who they need. The difference between white collar and blue collar work is crazy sometimes!
Out of curiosity, is your plant unionized?
It's a somewhat small (yet world renouned) private company. We generally cater to the ultra wealthy with what we manufacture so the money is absolutely here, but no union.
Well stop fighting for a raise and fight for a union fight for you.
Negativity bias is very strong online. Good things do happen
Yeah, to other people.
.... Like the owners son, who hasn't really done anything, ever, and we all keep having to do his work for him.
Incidentally, I work at a manufacturing company where the production crew are all union, but administration are not; so the blue collar guys are guaranteed annual raises, while us worthless white collar schmucks have to fight tooth and nail for every penny.
For every story of a person being given a raise, there a million stories of a person fighting for a raise and being denied.
Even the union jobs those others guys are talking about, you know what the raises are in our new contract? Five cents for the equivalent of three years of full time work.
Don't be fooled by the echo chamber of cushy office jobs that is so prevalent on Lemmy. You hear about these things because almost nobody else here has to work these shitty jobs like we do.
I work in IT, it's technically white collar, but I sure do feel like the digital equivalent of a mine worker some days.
It's pretty well known that the only way to get "promoted" in IT is to find a better paying position at another employer.