The Boss called me into his office and told me...

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The Boss called me into his office and told me to close the door and have a seat. He looked like he was about to cry, and he told me how much the company has appreciated the work I've done over the years, and cited several examples of how I'd pulled his bacon out of the fire, and then he commended me for the cost-reducing methods I'd implemented, and how my way of cutting through the BS had prevented him from hiring more than one loser. Then he took a phone call.

"Yes, he's here ... uh-huh ... no, I haven't told him ... what letter?"

Then he gets off the phone and goes out to check the mail. When he comes back, he sits down and hands me an envelope.

"It's not as bad as you think, but it's the best that we could do."

So I read...

"This letter is service to inform you that your pay rate has increased by 4%..."

The joker had the nerve to start laughing.

"You should seen your face! I thought you were gonna puke! Congratulations!"

I mumbled thanks and went straight into the bathroom ... cold porcelain sure does feel good against your cheek when you're kneeling there ...

Congrats!

I would have been on overload and would have had to leave for the rest of the day.

4% raise in this economy is freaking awesome!! !! That shows they REALLY value you. And to think of the time they put into putting this all together, it gives me warm fuzzies.

CONGRATS!! !

Congrats on the raise, but considering the state of the economy right now the way the news was delivered was just plain cruel. Is your boss a sadist or something?

It certainly was a rotten way to let you know you got a raise, but hey, YOU GOT A RAISE! CONGRATULATIONS!

1. You got a pay rise, rather than a cut.

2. You got to keep your job.

In my experience this means you did not make anyone feel too threatened.

Remember, the only way NTs can interpret the meritorious things you do are as part of a social status game.

You may have ensured the company is going well, people have jobs, can pay mortgages, go on holidays etc, etc.., but to them it is completely beyond comprehension that you may have done so from the goodness of your heart, that you are plain decent and you believe in what you are doing.

All they see is someone trying to increase their social status by gaining the attention of someone with higher social status. This is when they move in to prevent you from achieving anything. Remember, merit and substance is completely irrelevant in the face of appearances, and admittedly, things look very different to them.

When Einstein said humans use only 10% of their brain he was dead right. People have argued this all over the place, but the way I interpret it is humans use 90% of their brain / time / life consumed in a social status "game". Aspies have got a huge chunk of brain to do other useful things. Don't waste it on that status crap and don't let them get to you!

Keep up appearances and you will wind up breaking them. Show them you are unstoppable.

4% is a lotright now so good job. The way your boss presented it was tasteless and tacky but tha is just the way NT's are.

Cool, you got a raise! Congrats!

I would have freaked if I'd been told about it in that way, though...I would have thought I was in trouble for something, LOL, like when teachers want to talk to me at school.

I had a similar situation about two years ago. Sh called me to a meeting room and told me:
well your supervisor has told me that you are a little inside your world, that you don't seem to pay attention...You don't even seem to be interested in what we are doing here, blah blah blah

Then she gave me a letter which i had to sign, and that was it. Three weeks of work as an intern were over. I will always wonder if the reasons she gave me were true, or if they just decided that as i had the student visa, it would be a pain in the *** to do all the paperwork in order to hire me. Yes i am resentful, in case you wannna know

Well done on getting the pay increase, but it sounds like the way you were given the news was a total nightmare.

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congrats on the pay rise. if I was in that situation with the boss it would have scared the s**t out of me

I would have been sh*tting myself and after he'd told me I would actually have panicked even though it's a good thing. When people get me worried and either tell me good or bad things I often have a panic and breathe heavily for a while and have a sense of humour failure, quizzing everyone and saying 'I'm confused what's going on'. You reacted pretty well! Congratulations, very jealous here.