Needless to say that rarely happens, and even when it does there are often no available followup assignments in the same area to reinforce the knowledge, so you move on to something else and forget 80% of what you learned.
Suffice it to say he started saying he was sorry but despite his efforts he could not convince the higher ups how stupid an idea that was.
That's because their boss (or their boss's boss or whoever) is telling them to "get it done"/do that.
Seems like a lot of effort for the typical 3% raise most people get more often than not lol
If you work at a place for 10 years, is it really realistic to expect to get a $10k/yr+ raise every year? Goals or no goals.
If you aren't getting a wage increase above the annual inflation rate each year then not only you're not getting a raise, you're actually getting paid less for the same work (or, rather, for even more work, as your responsibilities will increase with the seniority).
For 100K wage that's like getting a 7K raise atm.
You're not wrong but I don't think it's realistic to expect every single year your employer to give you a "1:1 with CPI" raise.
If anything, maybe 0% one year or 2 years and then maybe a 10-15% next year (if you worked on some really key deliverable projects where it can be justified).
Is that your experience?
For the last decade tech has been hiring like crazy and jump jobs has been easy. I can't speak for how that will change going forward, but it does concern me.
Inflation is at 6.4 percent right now. If you made 100k that would take you up to six and a half just for treading water, if you make 200k then and get 10k you are being paid less than last year.
In my experience, whether inflation is 2% or 6% or 8%, your employer doesn't care. You have next to no leverage to demand a constant static cost-of-living-pegged-1:1-to-inflation raise.
yeah, if inflation is 8% and you don't get an 8% raise you effectively get a paycut. What are you going to do, strongarm your employer and demand they give you at least a "CPI trailing 12 months" raise every 12 months? not realistic in my opinion/experience
Anything over $160k/yr, I feel like you are subscribing yourself to be "the go to person" for everything and a lot is expected from you.
More like it for HR/managers to justify their presense by "doing something"
Your relationship with employees is through salary, that’s it. Not the comfy chair, the firewall rules, pool table, or “agile” training… but salary.
Let them talk salary and you will find they provide healthier boundaries. (Your comment gave me no indication of your opinion, I was just adding.)
I don't know the solution, other than just have general expectations about assigned work and commitments as those commitments come up and change. Rather than having some performance conversation that's out of sync with actual project deliverables.