Mid year review

[Harry you Potter]

I have my mid year review tomorrow and in my comments I have told the company that I feel I am undervalued by my employer. This is due to the amount of work I’m doing and not being given wage increases. I’m pushing for a wage increase otherwise I’ll be out faster than a fart in the wind. My colleagues are all on more money than me and arguably I’m doing more work.

I hate my job it’s rubbish and I’m sick of stupid customers (I must add not all customers but quite a few). I have worked in the industry for 7 years now and sick of the lack of progression.

I’m leaving regardless but need to find something new before doing so as don’t want any gaps.

Tomorrow I will be asked to comment on being undervalued so would you recommend I just say salary wise so I’m not dissing the job ?

My crivens I could get a job with Tesco and pretty much earn the same.

[Countdown]

If you hate your job and the customers why don’t you just leave? A 5% / 10% increase won’t make it any better especially if you’re earning not much to begin with.

[Mortarboard]

Here's the thing-
The budget for next years wages/salary is usually set about midway through the year before. I'm judging your firm big enough to be doing this by the fact you have mid year reviews.

So what you say, how you perform, is utterly, utterly irrelevant.

Sad fact is that most performance reviews are completely independent of raises or salary increases in larger firms. The budget is the budget.

Start.looking elsewhere, and you'll know your options.

M.

[alscar]

I vaguely recall you posted about being unhappy in your job in September 24 so clearly nothing has changed.
Perhaps the company’s view of your value and work input doesn’t match your own ?
The whole point of a review is to give your side of how things are going ,so as long as you are factual and polite I would make all of your dissatisfaction and reasons behind clear.
That said if you hate the job so much what is going to change with what would no doubt be a modest increase in salary anyway ?

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Mortarboard said:

Here's the thing-
The budget for next years wages/salary is usually set about midway through the year before. I'm judging your firm big enough to be doing this by the fact you have mid year reviews.

So what you say, how you perform, is utterly, utterly irrelevant.

Sad fact is that most performance reviews are completely independent of raises or salary increases in larger firms. The budget is the budget.

Start.looking elsewhere, and you'll know your options.

M.

IME things differ from company to company.

There's definitely an OVERALL budget set but this includes pots of money for

- individual bonus
- team bonus
- overall corporate bonus

The above will be linked to team and company profits.

so i think it's not accurate to say that how you perform isnt relevant - it certainly has been in places where I've worked

[alscar]

Agree with Countdown.
In addition ( and certainly the case when I was working ) Managers were given an overall pot of money within the salary increase budget to play with and allocate amongst their teams.

[Mortarboard]

Countdown said:

IME things differ from company to company.

There's definitely an OVERALL budget set but this includes pots of money for

- individual bonus
- team bonus
- overall corporate bonus

The above will be linked to team and company profits.

so i think it's not accurate to say that how you perform isnt relevant - it certainly has been in places where I've worked

Reading the OP,I dont think doubling his bonus (if it exists) would cut it.

If base pay is sucking, no performance review in the world is going to rectify that.

M.

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Mortarboard said:

Reading the OP,I dont think doubling his bonus (if it exists) would cut it.

If base pay is sucking, no performance review in the world is going to rectify that.

M.

100%

I've no idea why he's still there, given he works so much better than the rest of his team.

[alscar]

And also knows what they all earn.

[Monkeylegend]

Harry you Potter said:

I have my mid year review tomorrow and in my comments I have told the company that I feel I am undervalued by my employer. This is due to the amount of work I m doing and not being given wage increases. I m pushing for a wage increase otherwise I ll be out faster than a fart in the wind. My colleagues are all on more money than me and arguably I m doing more work.

I hate my job it s rubbish and I m sick of stupid customers (I must add not all customers but quite a few). I have worked in the industry for 7 years now and sick of the lack of progression.

I m leaving regardless but need to find something new before doing so as don t want any gaps.

Tomorrow I will be asked to comment on being undervalued so would you recommend I just say salary wise so I m not dissing the job ?

My crivens I could get a job with Tesco and pretty much earn the same.

If you hate your job and are sick of your customers imagine being a car dealer with customers like you

[davek_964]

Karma.

Even if you are great at your job, personality and behaviour does make a difference. Given how you've presented yourself on another recent thread, I'd be surprised if you're top of the favourite employee list.

Edited by davek_964 on Wednesday 4th June 19:02