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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by _huayra_ on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:18AM (#35897883)
I'm still new at the company, but it seems like promotions are basically (at best) the accumulated COLA adjustments one ought to have been given, but they make it seem like some performance-based thing.

Indeed, I have a RSU vesting schedule 4 years from hire. It is financially unwise to stay beyond that on-hire grant vesting period, it seems.

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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by htag on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:21AM (#35897908)
The A in COLA is adjustments. COLA Adjustments is like SQL Language or ATM Machine.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by vertis on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:41AM (#35900757)
This is why I like to say SQ Language and and AT Machine.
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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by yourapostasy on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:50AM (#35902059)
Examples of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (RAS) [1] or PIN Number Syndrome (PNS), which linguists don't fret over since it apparently serves a modest disambiguation and/or emphasis function in human language. It would be fascinating to find out the comparative prevalence in between different languages, but my Google-fu failed me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by Thorrez on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:08AM (#35898298)
What are new people hired in at? Inflation adjusted, are they being hired in at the a lower rate than the older employees were hired in at?
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Re:Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3... by _huayra_ on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:18PM (#35907043)
Everyone is hired in at a somewhat market rate, but it's the older employees who have become complacent and don't want to leave that are being underpaid. I know Blind is basically programmer 4chan, but if any TC postings on there are correct, I'm making more as a developer than some people who claimed to have worked their way up from junior dev and and are now manager :/
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