Rant: Of all the ungrateful things...

[Zerotech]

Just getting online on the home system (the last post was made from work).

Sunshine: It's just as Shard92 says, I work for a small, family-owned business that's not bound by the same wage laws as a large, publicly-owned company. Also no union in the shop to negotiate cost-of-living increases. No 401k, just profit sharing (which has been doing badly for the last 3-4 years making it more of a loss sharing plan).
As far as no raise being fishy, you don't know the half of it! The "people up front" are doing okay....new/nice vehicles, big houses, vacation trips out of state/country, etc. The "people up front" consist of : the owner (semi-retired and living in Florida), the company president (the owner's older son), the vice-president/purchaser (the owner's younger son) and one of the salesman (not related, but the owner inexplicably loves the guy). All the rest of us are non-family and get crap pay and p!$$-poor treatment.
I could go on loud and long about bonehead moves made by management, certain salesmen getting ridiculous commision checks in spite of the fact that their orders cost the company instead of making profit and on and on and on.....suffice it to say that it's a frickin' miracle that the company is still in business.

This is the three-ring circus I work for: www.scccontrols.com

[Jediab]

What's a bonus?

[Radical Dreamer]

You've got to negotiate those bonuses at the start of every year and get it in writting. Spell out goals and how much you expect to get for reaching them. I'm amazed how many people just walk into a job and say ok, I'll take x dollars per hour and that's that.

Come to the job market in WV and say that.....you will die of starvation

[Shard92]

Come to the job market in WV and say that.....you will die of starvation

yup, here too...

[Major Kong]

We have a most excellent Bonus Program here where I work. This year it payed out right at 13½%. It's called Sivulliqsi, which is Inuipaq word meaning teamwork (dog-sled terminology). It's based on 4 factors...production, shipping, environmental and safety. We meet at the end of the year and set our goals based on a 3 year running average and then try improve on those #'s. With production & shipping it's based on increases. With environmental it's better performance in certain criteria like reduction in permit violations, spills and other incidents. With safety it's all accidents with particular attention to Loss Time. We made 98.8% of our goals! We would have made 100% but we ran into a shipping problem in September and the ice came into our Port Facility before we could make our last shipment of zinc and silver concentrate. Last year wasn't so bad either it paid 10¼% This year so far so good, but we really won't know anything until our shipping season starts in late June (usually runs until early to mid October when the ice floe returns, 2003 being an exception).

[Orangeman]

What's a bonus?

Hey Sunshine,

Why don't you take Trip or Ya_Know home with you. I'm sure they'd consider it a bonus...might do wonders for their personality too...

[arch0nmyc0n]

Hey Sunshine,

Why don't you take Trip or Ya_Know home with you. I'm sure they'd consider it a bonus...might do wonders for their personality too...

That wouldn't be much of a bonus for her would it? It'd probably be considered more of some sort of punishment... ;P

[Cleetus]

Yeah, cause all the fly girlies really want teh cleetus

[Sunshine]

Well, ummm....I don't know whether if I should be flattered or not.

Let me think on it (for a few years or so)....I'll get back to you.

[Tacklebox]

Bonus??? What is this bonus????