93celicaGT2 wrote:And you're 110% right on the increase limit. That 15% is the max that she can give without having to answer to anyone. I'm not asking for more than that, really, though it'd be nice. I just want THAT, since she can't tell me why i don't deserve it, but these other people do. If i've been told for the last year and a half that i do a great job, get more work done than they thought was possible, and how impressed they all are that i haven't had an audit error in over two years, etc etc etc... then WHY am i not getting the 15%? That's the issue.
Keep in mind that I'm very cynical about this and I work in an industry where it's not too uncommon to treat your employees worse than the dirt on your shoes, so my view is somewhat coloured.
My feeling is that she's trying it on for some short term reward at her end. The thinking probably goes something like this - "you haven't got anywhere to go to and if I don't even give you the full raise it makes me look good from a cost control perspective". This might not be the exact game that's being played - there might be other internal politics at work here right up to her not wanting to keep you because your work ethic makes other people in her department look bad - but to me it looks like a short-term power game. Especially if there is no rational explanation for the 12% vs 15%. I would think that if she simply didn't have the additional 3% available in her budget she'd try to tell you, or raises have now been capped at 12%. You know, rational stuff that's not nice for a manager to tell an employee but nevertheless it makes sense if you bring it out into the open.
I assume you have communicated to her that you are unhappy with the lower raise without an explanation and that the hangup (as I read it) at the moment centres around the lack of explanation and not necessarily the 3%.
It pains me to say that you're in between a rock and a hard place now - you can either roll over and take the raise, which means she knows (or she thinks she knows) she can get away with again and again, or you tell her to berkeley off and jeopardise your job. The last time I saw idiotic behaviour like this in a company I worked for, people almost got trampled in a rush to the door as soon as the economy picked up a little. I'm not kidding, they had to replace 80%-90% of the warm bodies in some departments and I don't think a lot of people figured out that if they'd paid out part of the money they had to pay recruiters to get replacements in to those who left, they might not have had to pay the recruiters at all.
I know that taking the raise is the easier and comfortable way out but given the way this is playing, do you think that your manager would give you consent to move to another internal position during the 12 months?
I would check if there are any internal vacancies available to you right now and got and talk to those teams and see what transpires.
