flexagon | It's official...

My raise is late. This happens every freakin' year... I started in mid-June and we get paid monthly and raises are retroactive to the beginning of the month after you start, so as long as it gets through the system by the end of July, it's actually "on time". (Getting through the system means discussing my self-review with bossman, and then my self-review and bossman's review with the CEO.) This has never happened. It almost always happens before the end of September, which is the end of the fiscal year, instead. Almost every year I've raised some fuss and told the HR head just how incredibly unprofessional I think all this is. I mean, it's the one thing the big boss owes us peons on any kind of schedule, and he can't even do that? And can't relinquish his microcontrolling freakitude enough to let the next managers down deal with it (a rule that keeps fluctuating, but I've never landed on the right side of it)? Arrrrrrgh! It makes me want to smash something. Anyway, last year I had things on my mind besides the raise, and I was calm and didn't make a fuss, and guess when I got my raise, finally? The end of December. That's right, slightly over six months late. The horror, the fury.

So, this year I again will not fuss, but I will change my savings to simply save $100/month less, effectively giving myself a goddamn raise. When I get my real raise I can consider changing it back. Unfortunately, the online services of my bank are down this morning and won't let me modify the recurring transaction, or I'd've done it already.

Well, I found out yesterday that I have a lot more work to do than I'd been hoping--whee, it's getting worse! So right now might be a killer time to get going on that. I hope to write some haiku later today, though, and will share. :)