A Token Of Their Appreciation…

Last night I wrote up a pretty lengthy entry for My POV to post yesterday, but I forgot and left it on my computer.  Hopefully I’ll remember tonight.

Tuesday, I was notified that I would be receiving a raise at work.  I was so happy.  Since I got my new car, money has been a little tighter than normal.  My payments along with insurance is about $400 a month.  With my truck, the insurance was taken out of Joe’s paycheck and he got a corporate discount, so for full coverage, it only cost about $35 a month.  Now it’s a little over $100.  And my truck was paid off so going from $35 a month to $400 is a big rough on the pocket book.  So, when they told me they were giving me a raise, I was really happy.  Then they told me how much and now I’m having conflicted emotions.  I don’t know whether to be semi-ok with it or really insulted.  I’m only getting another $200 a month.

The office manager was the one who told me and her words were, "At least your getting a raise!"  Big freakin’ whoop.  I tried talking to Joe about how I felt and he tells me the same thing.  No big surpirse there.  I talked to my friend Zane about it and he said the same thing, too.  So am I just being a greedy bitch?  I mean, I spend more that $200 a month just on gas to get to work.  This company grossed almost $1 billion last year.  They throw money at their sales reps will all sorts of bonuses (last quarters bonus was $25,000) and trips throughout the year and all they can manage to squeeze out for me is a lousy $200 a month????  Am I being unreasonable?  All the shit I do so these guys can "earn" their pay, and I am given a symbolic raise.  This doesn’t even put me in a higher tax bracket…

I just don’t know how to feel about it…..