pretty glow

I like my job for once.
...written on 08.03.05, @ 3:30 pm

In all my excitement about actually having hormones again I forgot to mention my review.

See, I had my annual review. After 6 years it’s old hat. I really just want to walk in there and say, “what’s the bottom line”… much like my clients. I don’t have that luxury though because I still have so much I need to learn. So much. So I get to plod in there and listen to how much I suck (or don’t suck as is the case) and then plod back to my desk and keep working.

Last year I had had enough right before my review. If they didn’t give me a raise I was going to quit. It’s one thing to get paid next to nothing and be none the wiser for it but something entirely different when you know you’re “grossly underpaid” according to your peers and you do the same thing as they do. The year before that I had not gotten a raise because for an entire year I failed to perform some function that I was unaware I was supposed to and no one bothered to mention… for an entire year.

I got a 17% raise last year. It sounds like a lot but when you make nothing to begin with… it’s not as big as it sounds. It was a start and I was willing to give it some more time.

This year I was expecting 4% at the most since we operate on a 3-4% average around here and I had gotten the huge raise last year. I don’t think I did anything outstanding in the last year. I even interviewed somewhere else.

To my surprise… management pushed for a $4,000 raise this year. If you’d like the math, that’s somewhere around 12%. For a “single” girl with no bills… that’s a nice chunk of change.

I even got a pretty little speech…

Jenn, most days I have no idea where you see yourself going and if you want to be an admin forever, that’s fine too. It’s hard to find quality admins and you’re one of them. We’re just trying to show our appreciation for all you do and get you to where you should be.

How sweet…

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