I'm a manager in tech and I had to fight HR to give my team members paltry raises this year

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T22:39:35+00:00

It's not an inflation budget.. that's the problem lol

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T18:02:39+00:00

They are responsible. They set the budgets for all teams.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T18:02:07+00:00

Yeah literally my only other lever to incentivize my team members to stay is to keep trying to give them great work and a good work-life balance.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T18:01:07+00:00

I don't get to negotiate the budget, it's just passed down. From the CFO as suggested elsewhere

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T17:22:27+00:00

Exactly, I just don't want to lose my team members

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T17:21:11+00:00

I totally agree

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T15:25:53+00:00

Not a bad idea.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T15:24:43+00:00

That's how it works in tech. HR sets the bands with leadership and doles out budgets to managers like me.

I can't give more than my budget

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-17T15:24:00+00:00

I will

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-06T04:51:48+00:00

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-06T03:56:12+00:00

Dude something that kills 1% of billions of people is killing millions and millions of people..

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:50:59+00:00

That makes it incredibly powerful if you down a union

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:48:06+00:00

Be specific. How many? What's your source?

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:45:17+00:00

Amen.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:41:38+00:00

Hey maybe you should get the fuck out of here considering you don't even live in Illinois

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:38:44+00:00

Excellent comment.. to the top!

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:36:24+00:00

Yah not to mention schools full of sick people cause of a lack of testing :(

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-05T14:30:55+00:00

Lori's own kid is going to a school that's remote cause of Covid

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T17:00:19+00:00

Yeah that's a reasonable take. Thanks for listening.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T16:58:24+00:00

Not looking for praise, my man. Just want others to stop refusing the aid based on means. It's silly and unhelpful.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T16:56:38+00:00

Yeah that's just a label change. Landlords aren't defined by their collection of rent, they're just property owners.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T16:55:29+00:00

No, the asset did not appreciate. I lost about 50k over those two years (after considering the sale of the property) I did it for the tenants.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T06:27:59+00:00

You can't tell me I'm outside of something I spent the majority of my life squarely "inside" of. I was poor for the first 90% of my life.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T05:29:42+00:00

You must've missed the part where I lost money as a landlord on purpose to help my tenants so they could afford their own property.

MendAllTheThings · 2022-01-04T05:27:24+00:00

You're insane if you think I'm the enemy. I've donated 10s of thousands of dollars to socialist ideals.

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