Why aren't we complaining about the laughable 401K match or the limited medical coverage? CDW could contribute $10K to our 401k's today and that would mean more to me than a few days of vacation pay when I leave, or beef up the medical or just give reasonable cola increases? 3% isn't close to actual anything when our base pay isn't even average ---so maybe we should focus on overall benefits that would be incentives to stay.
Calling them merit raises is insulting to people who work hard for this company and get little recognition, but we always seem to find the big money to pay those directors and vp's . Cut the exec pay and use it to pay the people who do the work, then we could have less need for layoffs
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Agreed that Merit increases are insulting at best. Hasn't even kept up with inflation. Even if you are a rockstar and ki-ling it... you will get what a 5% raise?
@a8 If you don't like what you're seeing or reading here, then go somewhere else.
@a8 I think the OP was saying just the opposite, pay decent wages and benefits to the people who do the work and you'd have a stable, happier workforce. I don't read it as being owed anything-however- I think I"m owed the prevailing wages that similar companies pay and I don't really care about extra vacation pay as much as I care about overall benefits. We keep looking to layoffs to fix the bigger issues here instead of asking why we have such a pay gap with the senior leaders and the lowly masses who get scraps. Our executive team is failing all of us and that's a much bigger issue that seems to be resolved with only doing more layoffs
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