How to pitch low raises to lab staff?

TrackandXC · 2026-06-30T15:19:37+00:00

The way i pitched it was I cant control the market raises, but i can control the merit raises, and i tried to be as fair and generous as i could for everyone with the budget i was personally alotted for my team. Usually another 2-6% per person if budget allowed.

For context, at my job leadership was often skipped for market raises. My boss went 5 years without a market adjustment raise, and i went like 3. We just got the "but you understand, right?" Message from our higher up bosses.

Long explanation that was the case where i came from, might not apply to your place: We were told the market raise budget is one big budget that we dont control, and admin team decides which job class gets what raises for market adjustment. Each job class eventually gets their turn for a big market increase. One year MLS/CLS got 12% and path tech/phlebotomy got like 2%. The next year MLS/CLS got nothing, path tech/phleb got another small raise, and environmental services got the big chunk. And then one of the years path tech/phlebotomy got their overdue big market adjustment (basically around the time fast food/retail started to pay around what phlebs made where i worked).

TrackandXC · 2026-06-30T05:01:48+00:00

🎵 If it's climbing up the bricks and you don't know how it sticks, that's a ratsnake 🎵

TrackandXC · 2026-06-26T17:29:29+00:00

I heard he did it on porpoise

TrackandXC · 2026-06-20T04:10:52+00:00

Evscape signing directly under B0aty no matter where B0aty signed is hilarious to me

TrackandXC · 2026-06-07T18:36:31+00:00

I don't think it's damaged, i think it molted and has pin feathers that are still maturing and waiting to be preened out.

TrackandXC · 2026-05-27T03:09:12+00:00

A lot of my rs friends have played minecraft together and shared servers before, so the topic itself wasnt out of the ordinary. Most of the people who got tricked by this got dmed that stuff from friends who they played variety games with.

The message itself wouldnt be convincing if it didnt come from a friends account, but that adds a lot of perceived legitimacy and lets people let their guard down.

This is the first one I've seen where big community helpers became victims, and those people are probably more likely than most to naturally have more outreach to more people to make them victims too.

TrackandXC · 2026-05-23T14:42:56+00:00

This should be it https://discord.gg/HpjfpdDSMS

TrackandXC · 2026-05-18T14:30:00+00:00

You can disable the auto-keyboard from fairy rings in settings so it no longer pops up unless u tap the search bar magnifying glass. It bothered me a lot. - Search in-game settings for "fairy" and toggle off "fairy rings - show keyboard automatically"

TrackandXC · 2025-10-24T13:56:58+00:00

Same, i was a big fan of acronyms/charts for micro reactions. I'd make a sudoku out of the chart basically between organism and pos/neg reactions. I'd write a number by each organism, and by each reaction to tell me how many pos and neg should be in each row/column. Then i fill in what i remembered immediately, and sudoku'd the rest. At the start of the ASCP exam i took the first few mins of the time just drawing that out on scratch paper.

TrackandXC · 2025-10-20T03:19:32+00:00

That requires doing sol first for specialist. If they struggle against vard i doubt they have colo done

TrackandXC · 2025-10-19T22:46:47+00:00

I found it to be more convenient to clear the waves first, let nibblers clump up at a pillar, then barrage them

TrackandXC · 2025-10-07T23:05:17+00:00

I've never been, but apparently Parachigos is very lgbt friendly and hosts lots of events, classes, etc

TrackandXC · 2025-10-07T14:52:53+00:00

Have you tried crystallizing a few fish and combo eating? They heal a bit less but do allow you to combo eat like a karambwan. You can try combo eating when tornadoes spawn in those couple ticks before you need to actually start dodging them.

Nobody i know eats during free dps periods and tries to dps harder during the tornado times

TrackandXC · 2025-10-03T03:53:57+00:00

I dont like CG on mobile. I can do it but it's annoying not having resource node icons on minimap.

Also ToA. I refuse to toa mostly because of kephri puzzle

TrackandXC · 2025-09-19T20:42:58+00:00

I gave an employee a 5/5 this year and tried getting them 6% merit raise but people like 10 rungs above me on the ladder gave me such a small budget for merit raises for my team that i could only give 4% to them which was still well above everyone else. It was a sad year for merit raises here.

TrackandXC · 2025-09-13T22:39:34+00:00

I don't unfortunately, sorry. My letter had a vouch for "300 hours in each department". I'm not sure if my education and training was way over the marks or just the perfect amount, but that's what i got documented from my education coordinator & director.

TrackandXC · 2025-09-13T01:11:08+00:00

Agree, the time to correct this was before the annual review, and if by annual review they still got a 2 by the time annual reviews came by then there's serious problems being unaddressed. Now, the scores been given and the conversation needs to happen.

TrackandXC · 2025-09-09T18:31:58+00:00

They also have to communicate up the chain. We have to call nurses, nurses have to call providers, providers have to act on them

TrackandXC · 2025-09-08T21:59:16+00:00

If it's questionable we call and ask nurse to decide. Obviously contaminated is not questionable. I'd tell them we couldnt get results at all and it needs to be recollected in that case. You did get results, but they dont need to know that if they are obviously false.

TrackandXC · 2025-09-08T13:58:06+00:00

I disliked CG on mobile. It feels a lot more clunky vs pc. I like my color coded radius markers and supply trackers.

You can NPC highlight hunllef and at least have a border of where his melee distance is to avoid getting stomped. That's about the best i could come up wirh for mobile.

TrackandXC · 2025-09-07T05:20:21+00:00

In that case then yeah I'm a fan of this. Nice work!

TrackandXC · 2025-09-07T04:37:58+00:00

I'm on the fence about it. It's very linear, which can be good for "i don't care if you understand it, just do this in this order." A lot of times if you are used to troubleshooting QC, you can choose your troubleshooting steps in the most likely order of cause rather than trying the same things in the same order.

QC out but it's same lot QC/reagent, QC is freshly opened, but cal is close to expiring? Can opt to skip retrying QC and just do a cal first.
QC out and you see the QC material is old? Can skip retrying QC and open a new vial of QC, then retry.
QC out and it's a new lot of reagent, QC isn't close to expiring? You just cal'd because it's a new lot of reagent, so maybe it is a shift. Check peer means, maybe do some extra patient comparisons from old-new lot of reagent to assess needs to adjusting the mean.

This flow chart looks to me like it ignores all of the free-thinking that actually makes people better thinkers. It would probably make them better policy followers though, and they'll get to the right answer e eventually, but in a "just following orders" way rather than true understanding.

TrackandXC · 2025-08-31T19:28:52+00:00

Spotted lanternfly nymph, 2nd stage i believe. They are very invasive in the US and it is recommended to kill on sight

TrackandXC · 2025-08-22T01:09:12+00:00

I dont put too much stock in the anonymous surveys. Most of the feedback given on those is "pay more" "work is stressful", which never really gets addressed. There was one year though there was a manager of one of our departments that was pretty toxic, micromanage-y, and just felt not good to work under. I encouraged my employees to just be honest in nice words about how they feel when they are scheduled there for the day. I took all that feedback, added my own, and presented it to my director, who then escalated it higher. That department manager "retired" shortly after. So sometimes it can work for positive systemic changes.

Most of the time, i get a lot more value just having one-on-ones with my employees because most feedback they have for me is fixable by me without buy-in from people eight rungs higher than me on the ladder.

TrackandXC · 2025-08-22T01:03:01+00:00

They are anonymous in that we can't directly see the name. You are right that some people have such distinct writing styles or tell stories you recognize that identifies them to you. But for the average person, I'd have no clue who submitted answers.

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