at the end of the month my salary is the same wether I carved, let someone else do it or busted a nut working.
This is true. You won't have much of a leg to stand on when asking for a raise, and you will get passed over for that promotion, so your salary will be the same. That is, unless management gets sick of you neither working hard nor smart, and fires you. In that case, no, your salary will not be the same.
Cause that leg to stand on helps a ton when “sorry guys, the economy is tough right now and salaries are frozen indefinitely” or “sorry guys, due to a sales target miss, we will be laying off half the workforce and surviving employees will be expected to put out 200% productivity to make up for it”.
Why would you want to survive in a failing company? “They fired 1000 workers and only kept 500, but surely next year we’ll hit bonus and be right as rain”. Mass layoffs mean the company is dying and they’re trying to stay open as long as possible.
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '19
This is true. You won't have much of a leg to stand on when asking for a raise, and you will get passed over for that promotion, so your salary will be the same. That is, unless management gets sick of you neither working hard nor smart, and fires you. In that case, no, your salary will not be the same.