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I CAN HAZ RAIZE!??

Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
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I CAN HAZ RAIZE!??

 #121134  by Anarky
 Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:59 pm
That's right boys and girls! I got a significant raise at work yesterday. I went from 45,000 a year to 52,500 a year. (Though 2 co-workers positions have been eliminated in the process of restructuring our company)

I bought an XBOX 360 Elite and GTA4 today and picking up a 1080 LC TV this weekend with my tax return money. >:)

I know I'm gloating but I was hit from left field with the offer, I was only expecting a small raise.

 #121135  by Blotus
 Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:07 pm
Congrats... asshole.

 #121140  by Zeus
 Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:15 pm
Congrats, man

 #121151  by Tessian
 Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:37 pm
Congrats! I had the same thing happen in February; 20% raise is great... until you remember that it just put me at fair market value :(

 #121152  by Eric
 Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:45 pm
Err, what do you do again? :)

 #121157  by Anarky
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:54 am
Eric wrote:Err, what do you do again? :)
Web Designer... though I think they will have me do development too now

 #121158  by M'k'n'zy
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:02 am
Congrats!

 #121160  by Blotus
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:57 am
$52.5k as a web designer... wow.

 #121167  by SineSwiper
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:58 am
Well, I'm sure they are going to be expecting you to develop a lot more, though. Also remember that your raise was pay for with your co-worker's salary. Can you sleep at night knowing that? :P

 #121186  by Anarky
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:39 pm
Black Lotus wrote:$52.5k as a web designer... wow.
Well you do have to remember I live in Southern California which does have one of the highest cost of living. The median for Web Designer is actually about 55K in LA.
SineSwiper wrote:Well, I'm sure they are going to be expecting you to develop a lot more, though. Also remember that your raise was pay for with your co-worker's salary. Can you sleep at night knowing that? :P
It sucks, but at the same time one of the people let go was a creepy asshole who we thought was a serial killer.

 #121197  by Imakeholesinu
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:37 pm
You are a lucky bastard, but good for you.

Hopefully I'll be making myself a bit more valuable to my company as I am taking my 70-291 tomorrow and then the 70-270 at the end of May.

I will be MCSA certified by the end of May. Then it's 5 more tests (4 MS 1 CompTIA).

Hoping I can get that by the end of the year. Somewhere in there though I need to get my Citrix 4.5 certification.

Thank god I have my server 2003 certs for life, this next round of MS certifications of getting certified every 5 years is going to BLOW FUCKING ASS!

 #121209  by SineSwiper
 Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:19 pm
Heh, got my CCNA a year ago and I'm a Perl developer.
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