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[–] 122 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I saved a hotel chain millions during an outage. I got $1,000 bonus.

The second time, I got a pat on the back and no raise that year.

Fuck corporations

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    When my huge, multinational company announced one year of total grind for everyone, they said there would be rewards to make up for it.
    Fast forward one year and the #1 top performer received... a diner with the CEO. And nothing else.
    I wish I was joking.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago*

    I can't even enumerate the times I've saved my company from turning into dust

    I was the single person responsible to ensure our database had no issues deploying by writing end to end tests that used real workflows, guess what ? surprise ! lots of database locking issues, issues with database transactions, issues with the application straight up crashing.

    Fixed that days before our live deployment to a handshake.

    TBH eventually they did give me a huge raise and at the moment of writing this I do think I'm being paid accordingly, but back then I was like damn shit is cringe.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Bonuses are bullshit because they don't touch your salary, and they get taxed extra. When I got mine, I was far more insulted than happy. Same situation as you, they didn't give me a raise that year.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Where do they get taxed extra? To my understanding, it's considered regular income in Canada and the US.

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