Ok react to this little scenario

You survive a merger and now work as a cog in a ginorous corp. A year goes by your new boss (several states away) tells you that you're getting a bonus (nothing spectacular but nice) and a raise (again just enough to help keep pace with rising cost of living).

A month goes by...hmm where's that bonus? I thought it was supposed to go through by the end of the month.

Ask your boss about it and here's the response.

"Oh gee sorry looks like that was a mistake. You got a bonus and a small raise last year. There's no bonus or raise this year for you."

SONVOA..FRAKING...ARRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

:wow: :wtf: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:

"In that case, you really shouldn't have promised what you could not deliver."

But then I always was an outspoken pain in the butt.

And congratulate him on his great people skills/management skills for me. Turkey.

Part of your raise is linked not only to personal goals but also how many goals your team members meet (both personally and team-wise). One particularl grueling year, everyone on the team meets 100% of your goals - even though management kept promising the clients almost impossible deadlines and just generally had their collective head up their managerial ass. So some high-up mucky-muck sends out an email to the team to congratulate them for a job well done but at the same time goes off on a tangent hypothetically wondering if maybe the goals that were set this year weren't a little too easy, bascially saying that we didn't deserve our bonuses.

Yours truly sends out an email to some team members telling them, "Watch. In two weeks, we'll get another email outlining how bonuses will work next year, and it will be more confusing and difficult than anything we've ever seen before." Some managers hear us discussing this prior to a meeting and basically poo-poo the idea, which is fine because when it did happen 2 weeks later, I got to throw it in their faces.

"Where's your damn Fish program now, beyotches? Huh?"

TlalocW

We met our goals for an incredibly difficult year. We had a meeting with the bosses boss who said essentially "great work but we must've set our goals to low..."

Gotta love CSA (Corporate States of America)

only replace last year with 4 years ago and substitute "small raise and bonus" with double digit percentage pay cuts in the 4 years since last raise...