Do for yourself what others can not.
Why do businesses expect loyalty from employees? Most business try to pay their employees as little as they can while still retaining current employees. Every year they offer a raise. Which in most cases simply keeps up with inflation. They also like to justify raises by having some type of a rating system in place. Then after you receive your rating and wonder why you didn't achieve the highest level they indicate that it's impossible to reach that level. Why include the level then? To keep you reaching.
About the only way to get a decent raise is to move to another company. Other companies will give you a larger initial increase then you would ever have gotten from your prior company. It's sad but true. Companies do not protect good works, but rather exploit them. Bad workers however don't have it too bad. They get the standard raise and don't have to apply themselves to their job.
Posted by Jeff at April 4, 2003 11:42 AM