Remember my post about my annual review and raise? Well the raise hadn’t taken effect yet and I had to see the HR person for our department about something else, so I inquired about the status.

So it makes sense to wait, but it will be three months from my review before the paperwork is even started. Good news from this, she said my boss asked for the maximum raise allowed which is actually 15% rather than 10%. So I might be getting a base salary increase and then a raise of 15% on top of that, which would be sweet.

Another thing she mentioned: I am currently in the highest pay grade for hourly employees, so I will be switching from hourly with overtime to a salaried fixed rate. This is alright, but the nature of my job requires random hours and some weeks end up being a lot more than 40 hours long. I guess if I have long days on a salaried schedule I can be justified in taking a half day on Friday or something equivalent, but its still not the same as double rated overtime.

Overall this is a great development and I am very happy with it. And… There’s more free stuff! Ryan has been going crazy finding all these freebies lately. They should start flowing in to our mailbox really soon.

Today’s offer: Free Snuggle Fabric Softener

Isn’t the bear cute? Every little bit helps, and all this free stuff really adds up.

 

Oh, and one last thing. I stumbled across this yesterday and it made me really laugh out loud because it’s true:

Sorry if it’s a little hard to read. If you click on the image you will be taken to the original post and full sized image.

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