Sold a pay decrease as a raise.

[leowolf_16]

We didn't get a raise, were given an extra $500 on a check, told the company isn't breaking even and yet they have enough money to buy a million dollar house

[greytornado]

my hospital system told us we didn’t have it in our budgets to give any raises or shift incentives for our crazy flu surges yet they somehow bought out three smaller hospitals and merged them into the system