By eliminating the “Jahressonderzahlung”, colloquially known as “Weihnachtsgeld”, which effectively was a 13th monthly wage at the end of the year, my workplace effectively upended the minimum wage increase from 2022 and the subsequent pay raise for my pay grade, which is barely more than minimum wage anyway. God, I hate being poor. Time to organise some people.
:-) I got a raise from $19/hr to $20.75/hr in March 2022, which is close to 10% (it's actually like 9.61% but whatever - they didn't wanna give me an extra $0.15/hour or just even it out to $21/hr and yet the bastards wonder why I refuse to participate in the weekly virtual coffee hour)
i think inflation outpaced that increase by June 2022. I still haven't seen any real tangible benefit to the extra $1.75/hr. That additional ~$300/month just barely covers the higher cost of groceries I suppose.... (or at least that's what I tell myself when it's near the end of the month, my landlord is sending me rent requests, and I'm wondering how I spent like $1400 after tax in between the 15th and the 1st
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