<story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions.  One of the questions was &amp;#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &amp;#x27;standard&amp;#x27; 2% raise?&amp;#x27;  The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &amp;#x27;Honestly? No&amp;#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&amp;#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market.  Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter.  It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></comment>
<story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions.  One of the questions was &amp;#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &amp;#x27;standard&amp;#x27; 2% raise?&amp;#x27;  The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &amp;#x27;Honestly? No&amp;#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&amp;#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market.  Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter.  It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&amp;gt; If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.&lt;p&gt;Note that this doesn&amp;#x27;t always even involve taking it.&lt;p&gt;Go get a job offer that pays better and bring it to your boss. If they want to match it, great. If they don&amp;#x27;t, bye.</text></comment>