Don’t forget the company meetings where leadership says things like “this is the best quarter we have ever had”, along with “we need to work harder to stay competitive”. Sigh.
“Despite making record profits, we still didn’t hit EBITDA this year, therefore no bonuses or raises. Merry Christmas!”
That’s not true. The senior management team will be getting raises in line with inflation and also huge bonuses for those record profits. Not to mention their share value increasing.
Oh yeah check that box too, for me
In Belgium we have automatic wage indexation based on inflation of certain product. Some right wing parties want to get rid of it, but luckily it’s still here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index_(Belgium)
You have no idea how lucky you are. Then again, you have to live in same country as Charleroi, so it kinda balances it out.
Sounds like right wing is just as evil and stupid in the east as it is in the west…! :-)
Do you think Belgium is an eastern nation?
Everything is east. Even here is east of here.
I’m in France, and I think yes.
And remember, 10 years from now, you’ll be nostalgic for this shitty time.
If a climate change superstorm, AI, riots, famine, etc haven’t gotten around to killing you yet at least. Lucky dead bastards.
Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.
When theres literally people in the UK screaming about NHS workers getting a 5% pay rise when NHS workers earn significantly less than they would doing the same work in the private sector and considering that people actually get free healthcare from the people wjo got this pitiful raise is absolutely soul destroying. Especially when you take this meme into account.
You guys are getting raises?
I knew someone had to have said it… Lol… I don’t even need to scroll further to see if there was anyone else.
It would be funny if it didn’t hurt so much. Rent is too high, grocery bill has me intermittent fasting, and I walk/bike instead of driving now. Shit is rough out here.
Luckily doing all of those things will solve the problem once and for all!
9.1? Jajajajajajajajaja (laughs in argentinian 120% yearly inflation rate)
Not to be insensitive, but how do you even survive?
The productive capabilities of the country haven’t ceased to exist. As long as that remains true, inflation is going to create wacky, uncertain, annoying situations, but it doesn’t have to provoke severe destitution as long as other safety nets are in place.
It’s almost as though the governments should do their jobs and fucking put cost controls. Seriously, we need some new economic thought/ practice. Just like how several generation’s ago they figured out that wages are sticky, they need to put cost caps or restrictions to stop this shit. Instead of cutting the money supply and people’s lifelines, they need to fucking tell businesses to cut the crap and stop the bullshit. Since then pandemic every industry feels like they can price gouge and get away with it. It’s fucking ridiculous. If you put a stop to that, then you have some hope of resigning in inflation.
My wife just got a 4% pay increase but then the insurance premium went up by 11%. So she really got an 7% pay demotion.
Ugh, similar here.
Her insurance premium is 100.2% of her salary?
3% raise, huh? How about no raise
'Muricans flexing with 3% inflation
Fuck I hate this world we live in
More like greed. Inflation because they have record profits, pay their employees less *(relative to inflation )and charge more for their products
You think inflation is due to record profits?
And by pay employees less, what do you mean? Like relative to inflation? Or is there a company that actually lowered hourly wages?
I can sort of agree with the charge more part I guess. But it’s pretty obvious that inflation is largely caused by increasing the money supply. This has been shown repeatedly throughout history and isn’t really debatable unless I’m missing something. It’s sort of like how the more slices you cut a pizza into, the smaller the slices become. Charging more for the pizza, paying the pizza employees less or the pizza company making more money doesn’t impact slice size unless they increase the number of slices or the size of the pizza itself.
unless I’m missing something.
You’re missing a shitload. “Government bad” ideological blinders will do that though, so here’s some info to get caught up in case you’re capable of a good faith discussion or just want to know what is really happening:
I believe I got 3.2% this year and 2.8% next year, or in other words, I got completely shafted. Doesn’t even cover food cost going up.
You fuckers are getting raises??! Goddammit, you’re part of the problem!
