#noraises

“We can’t afford raises this year, but here’s an email announcing our record-breaking profits.”

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Feels like Mortal Kombat after today's call and GK effectively telling us remote people we have no future.

We knew we had no future when they told us no more raise, no opportunity for promotion , etc.

But today, she just told us we will be all layoff.

And the reason is stupid, we do our job fine.

How is sending all the remote job to India making us a better Bank?

Why does she treat us like garbage?

Heard there were salary freezes starting 11/1?

Is this the usual excuse here?

Seton Hall laid off 46 people in the fall 2026 semester and is requesting voluntary separations from union and non-union staff to offset a multi-million dollar deficit for the 2026-27 fiscal year. They have frozen salaries and raises and say they have frozen hiring but continue to post multiple job openings for administrative positions and faculty.

Listen closely to the earnings call and the interview after for employees posted on the intranet. When DW talks about raising the dividend slowly because the future is uncertain the same thinking is applied to employee compensation. We can go years with record oil prices and profits and not see raises because they will say something like “but oil could go back to $30 a barrel so we have to plan for that”

WTF is he doing as anyway to make millions?
All I see is selfies, social media posts, interviews, patting his own back and outing with T. And I had no raise in years. Disgusted

How come Social Security announced a 3.6% increase for this coming year and this company hides behind a 'they can't afford raises' mentality ?

Palo is cheap. They are like many of the other vendors. One could be there five years, get no raises of any kind. Promotions are nearly impossible. Upper management admits this is true and all that is controlled by mindless algorithms. One has to leave to get more money.

A senior well respected technical engineer who I look up to recently told me he hasn’t had a meaningful raise in more than 10 years. He is late career but not beyond normal retirement age. Is this normal!

Penobscot Community Health Care is implementing additional staff reductions and service eliminations to avert bankruptcy. The Warren Center for Speech and Hearing may cease operations within two months if a transfer deal is not secured. Unlimited Solutions Clubhouse is slated for takeover by Kennebec Behavioral Health, with a potential closure date of November 30th if the agreement falters. These measures follow earlier layoffs and a call for $3 million in immediate funding. The organization is also freezing employee raises and discretionary retirement contributions to conserve cash.

Bangor, Maine

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/23/bangor/bangor-health/penobscot-community-health-care-layoffs/

I had an eccentric manager who was brutally honest and upfront in individual syncs. Manager was impacted yesterday. I see the focal posts, dropping what was told to me by my manager - I will fight to get you focal + RSU if you perform, but, understand Oracle is using the bad job market and AI hype to take advantage (no raises to base pay) and they use the RSU as a carrot to make you work but you might not be employed to get it - so don't work extra, do the best in your normal hours. Remote employees on our team got 3 days notice and lost RSUs. So don't work to hard, work smart and look to exit this company. USA where employees don't have good protection like our European and Asian colleagues.

Just heard about a couple more including hipos.

That’s 7 (or 8?) in last couple months and many are strong performing mid career. A bunch more almost out as the ones who left are recruiting others to go. As well several people just waiting for confirmation of disappointing news in December (no salary , no promos even with outstanding or excellent performance.)

Will be interesting since GP doesn’t have the people to do the upcoming projects and it’s only getting worse.

Do you think GP SLT recognizes this or will do anything? Or maybe this is exactly what they want!

Anyone in Houston have some insights?!?

Last year they re-did pay scales for my title and decreased the salary range drastically. Because of this, I was told I made just over the line and didn’t get a pay increase even though I had a meets ratings. When benefits increased in cost, it meant I take home less than in 2025 because of it. Wasn’t too happy but it was what it was…

Currently, I make about 82 percent of the max pay amount for my role in my area. Should I expect the same results this year—no pay increase even for meets? 2 years in a row I won’t be too happy about…

Anyone have actual insight? I’d assume they are starting that conversation, maybe?

When management is asked about radical operational changes and how it will affect the future of those people and they respond "I don't know", they absolutely DO know and it's time to get out now and let it die. 3+ years of 1% raises is ridiculous. I've given three decades to this business and I'm done. Time to go be part of some mindless industrial machine and make WAY better money. Journalism is dead. Local media is dead. Until a station is run by a single employee, Nexstar will cut and cut until that one person is then running two or three stations. Maybe a 1% raise if they're lucky.

1 month sev for year of service?

For the rest its still bad, no increment. Falling stock. What else?

#2 Kyndryl

https://insights.economistenterprise.com/projects/2026-top-100-global-most-loved-workplaces

No raises for anyone and still near the top of the list. Amazing.

No raises. No promotions. PTO requests denied. Such a great place to work.

By paying not Market rates and not giving raises or bonuses for many years reflects the
state of the company and its Management. This is not a good management and it will definitely will be working against the growth of the company.

If your total compensation doesn’t increase by at least 3.5% you are not even breaking even. And you need even more than that to make up for the zero raises of 2026.

Anyone catch that LA mansion trip

Nike Budget Meeting:

'Sorry everyone, we're in really tough times. No raises. No team lunches. No travel. No new hires. Please share a stapler with three departments.'

Meanwhile...

'Book the 37-bedroom Beverly Hills mansion, fly in the athletes, reserve the Michelin-star restaurants, add a private chef, hire a DJ, extend the trip into a family vacation, upgrade everyone to first class, and if the infinity pool doesn't overlook the Hollywood sign, we'll need another mansion.'

Leadership:
'We're all making sacrifices'

You work your butt off every single day and what do you get as a reward? More work. No promotion, no raise, just more piled on your plate. Why bother?

I am wondering if we will have yet another year of zero raises.

Don't spend money on paying Indian contractors to astroturf here. Use that money instead to give American workers a raise. I am not kidding when I say every post that is clearly from management or a foreign worker is a clear sign to the American workers that you are scared, and I'm using it accordingly. Give us salespeople higher base pay and activity here will begin to calm down AND productivity will increase!

No Raises? What did that w3 article mean?

Heard from the India team that Muhi Majzoub was in India last week. In a meeting with employees and presence of HR, he basically dropped hints that layoffs are coming down the pipeline soon.

Sounds like salary hikes are definitely getting delayed or might not even happen at all. On top of that, they're fast-tracking performance reviews right now to flag low performers before making the cuts.

Anyone got more details on this?

Though not for good reasons. I guess this is as close to relevance as they can get these days though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ty2vto/ceo_says_there_will_be_no_raises_because_he_spent/

No regrets.

Zero or paltry raises for employees while executives gorge themselves and continually inflate their compensation year over year.

Thoughts on yearly self review. Is it pointless? We have been told no raises again, so is it to continue to weed employees out. Not new to Oracle 13 years some great, some awful. Just trying to pay my bills while looking for something new.. Peace and love.

So it's SMB now and we're sc--wed. New title and responsibilities, no OT and no raise. Enough already, time to quiet quit.

No opportunity for progression and no pay raises. Thats the whole point of working right?

The job is mind numbingly boring, it drains the life out of you and opportunities are limited to a select few.

The people are great but that’s the only benefit, it’s good to gain experience but don’t stay here for the long term, the only positive on the overall situation is that everyone is in the same boat.

Hemsley - please note: received no raise, while your compensation increased. That delta's super to acept.

I have been with the company for more than a nine yrs, and it is soooo frustrating to see long-term employees treated as though their contributions do not matter. Many of us have lost confidence in management's ability to lead effectively. Repeating the same scripted remarks every quarter does not address the real issue, and employees are tired of hearing it.

People want fair pay, not more corporate language. If compensation does not improve, the company risks losing experienced employees who have carried this business for years.

It is discouraging to see reports that we received nothng while the stock price rises. That only reinforces the perception that leadership is rewarding itself while ignoring the people doing the work.

With the Employee rises of 0% settled for another year its time for the Execs to take their big haul again. Internally DXC give the message that things are bad and they can't afford pay rises, on the Results calls they say all is going great and then go and take their rises. They always take raises at the beginning of the fiscal year, leaving employees at the end of the year. Del bean even goes as far as saying money has been budgeted for employees this year, then the money then evaporates i guess into the dodgy Execs accounts.

DXC Execs are one big lie, Will they get raises this year, whats your guess?

No raises this year
Only pizza

Something has shifted over the last few years, and it’s hard to ignore.

I’ve never really felt like I worked for DXC — my focus has always been on doing right by the client and delivering a good outcome. But recently, it feels like we’re neither wanted, respected, nor trusted to do the job we’re here for. Work is withheld or second-guessed at every step, with everything needing detailed oversight. It’s draining, and it doesn’t exactly inspire anyone to go the extra mile.

That lack of trust is one thing, but when it’s paired with years of a 0% pay rise policy, it becomes even harder to stay motivated.

People often say financial reward is only part of a job — and that’s true. But right now, there’s very little else to balance it out. There’s no real sense of job satisfaction, no recognition when something is done well, and often not even a simple “thank you.” It increasingly feels like the expectation is that having a job should be enough in itself.

For me, that balance has tipped. What used to be tolerable — even enjoyable at times — has turned into something I genuinely dislike. The disconnect is such that it’s hard to care whether projects succeed or fail, especially when accountability can so easily be shifted elsewhere — to a missed detail, a PM oversight, or yet another broken process that makes delivery unnecessarily difficult.

It raises a bigger question: how sustainable is this? Because from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t feel like something that can continue for much longer, and I will be happy to see it collapse.

No wonder things are falling apart at the seams.

The UK's largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run a host of business process outsourcing services – including building a new Oracle ERP system.

The management said UK was doing not so good so no no payrises, and then a few days later they announce a $1.4 billion deal.

Heavy work, broken tech, bad managers, tiny raises. Insurance keeps getting worse. Basic tasks take all day. Sales and customers dropping, no vision. It's a mess.