You didn't get a raise.... but you got a new play room ??
I would say something clever here, but I can't quite wrap my mind around how that would be consoling to unhappy workers that didn't get a raise, from any point of view.
Somehow it still made me giggle the way you tell it, but then, I'm not the one that did not get a raise. My next is due in July. If they were to come up and say "uh oh... our bad... .no raises".... that would go over like a lead balloon. The company I work for is huge and they already can't keep their positions filled on nearly any level since the pandemic, so pissing off the ones that are currently there I think, would not prove very beneficial to them. Of course as we know, common sense doesn't have a lot to do with decisions most big companies make. You know, lets just throw some shit at the fan and see where it goes. LOL!
I know! Its shit isnt it! Its not even ours for long as they are just holding them there till we get the new office!
I hope yours goes well this year! We didn't get one last year but there are mutterings and vague promises of making up for it this year. I am fervently hoping that the the beanbags is really not it! :OD
We got a raise last year. Our departments have to rate us and not everyone gets the same amount. Last year, I exceeded the requirements and qualified for the top amount. About the same time our company totally changed the HR systems they were using and hadn't quite got it right yet (ie, didn't know what they were doing), so with apologies, all the sudden everyone was getting the same amount, which of course wasn't top rate (but wasn't bottom rate either). I think they would have had to manually go into each one (thousands and thousands) and put in the rate we had earned, but couldn't make that work for the time the raises were due. Gah!! It was good for those that didn't meet expectations or only "met" them, but for the exceeders, it was shit. So much for incentive to not be a half-ass worker.