Peter has a point. . .

So I just had my review for this year. My boss, who is leaving, is very nice and I like her a lot. It's not her fault that my company is a bunch of cheap bastards. So I get my bonus and my merit increase. My merit increase breaks down to a whopping $60/month BEFORE taxes. That's not even enough to cover parking. But I'm supposed to be thrilled. Um, not so much. Well, maybe because I could have gotten nothing. So I guess there's an upside.

Here's the thing about corporate America. There is no incentive to work harder. I could have gotten the same review doing 1/2 as much work. So, like Peter Gibbons, it's a problem with motivation. There is a limit to how many Superior reviews they can give out, too.

So I am trying to get promoted so that I can at least have some concrete goal to work towards. It's sad that I have to make goals to work towards because if I do a bangup job currently, it doesn't make a difference to my compensation. By the way, we have a whole compensation department that looks at what everyone in the area is making at your same job and then averages it to make sure you are on track. Because dammit, it can't have anything to do with your actual performance or aptitude for the job.

So now I have an extra $47 a month to play with - I can feed my Whole Food addiction some more, I am thinking. Or I can get cable - but not quite. That's $50 a month. Dammit - so close.