Uh... woo?
Jul. 2nd, 2003 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehI just got a raise. I mean, a good, serious raise.
This baffles me to no end. The company was told there would be no raises. And, for the most part, there *were* no raises. Except for me, and M, and J, and five producers.
I mean, seriously. The company has... close to 200 employees, and eight of us got raises.
And PBS is losing money. I mean, hemorrhaging money. We've cut close to a third of our employees in Chicago alone in the two-and-a-half years I've been here. After the last round of lay-offs (where I feared I might be next, as I spoke out rather angrily at a companywide meeting about them), they swore we'd have no more lay-offs, and we just did last week - two major VPs were let go for monetary reasons.
I mean... buh?
This baffles me to no end. The company was told there would be no raises. And, for the most part, there *were* no raises. Except for me, and M, and J, and five producers.
I mean, seriously. The company has... close to 200 employees, and eight of us got raises.
And PBS is losing money. I mean, hemorrhaging money. We've cut close to a third of our employees in Chicago alone in the two-and-a-half years I've been here. After the last round of lay-offs (where I feared I might be next, as I spoke out rather angrily at a companywide meeting about them), they swore we'd have no more lay-offs, and we just did last week - two major VPs were let go for monetary reasons.
I mean... buh?
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Date: 2003-07-02 02:20 pm (UTC)No raises HERE.
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Date: 2003-07-02 03:35 pm (UTC)Wow. Congratulations, that's really something!
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Date: 2003-07-02 04:17 pm (UTC)And congrats. :) Don't question it. The whys and wherefores of business practices are dark and mysterious.
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Date: 2003-07-02 08:00 pm (UTC)"Carpet, rug - rug, wool - wool, sheep - sheep, wolf - wolf, pack - pack, case - case, trunk - trunk, elephant! *And it's worked before!*"
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Date: 2003-07-03 11:16 am (UTC)And yes, I have more WE stories from this week...
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Date: 2003-07-03 05:55 pm (UTC)-J