Got a nice holiday email a couple days ago from one of the absolute clown directors in my group stating the following:
"You are so important for us. Merry Christmas"
Notice he said FOR us, rather than TO us. I don't think he actually did that on purpose because I doubt he's smart enough to know the difference, however the slip in wording is pretty telling about about how these clowns value us. We're not actually important TO them as people but rather FOR them as means for their own selfish ends.
If you want to spread a little holiday cheer heading into 2022, feel free to send your colleagues to the following tool. Got me feeling warm and fuzzy to confirm that my current $80k salary that hasn't changed since 2017 ought to be $90.5k in 2022 just to stay at the same purchasing power as it was in 2017. Or to put it another way, my $80k salary in 2022 is like having a $73.5k salary in 2017. Good thing I've had good marks on my annual evaluation s every year, wouldn't want to think about how much worse it would be if I wasn't a top performer...
Maybe it's time for me to start bringing 11% less output/value to Oracle? Plus maybe a little less for good measure to make up for the fiscal raw dogging of the last 5 years?
Fugging manager clowns.
https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator