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Freaking out - 2 kids in daycare and a PAY FREEZE?
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Anonymous
| Has anyone been told what this means? Does it affect a promotion from one step to another? Or within grade increases? I am freaking out! |
Anonymous
Cheer up, maybe you can get daycare costs to be frozen. Read Obama's statement and you will know what the pay freeze means. |
Anonymous
| There is a discussion and reactions in the Off-Topic Forum. |
Anonymous
| Thanks 18:28! |
Anonymous
| Its not a pay cut, you are not using your job, nothing is changing. If you don't increase your spending, then you will be fine. Your day care costs should also go down when your kids get older. Many local gov't have gone to freezes & furloughs and have let go of workers as have private companies - at least you have a job! |
Anonymous
| Wah |
Anonymous
| But inflation is eroding the future value of the dollar. |
Anonymous
| Honestly, you are lucky it's just a pay freeze--the year the Feds got a 5% increase, I got a 5% pay cut, with no reduction in work. That stuck for 2 years. Many of us have been dealing with pay cuts, RIFs, benefit cuts etc. for the past 2 years. |
Anonymous
| I know, honestly! Come over to the private sector. We haven't even seen COLA in 2 years much less any step increases or bonuses! |
Anonymous
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Meh - depends on the private sector. My hubby is in the private sector and he gets an average 7% COLA every year, in addition to major bonuses. That isn't likely to change this next year.
I'll give you that many in the private sector have it worse, but don't act like the Feds are the last remaining group to be unscathed. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, but I just got laid off from a private sector job. A pay freeze with a job sounds pretty good from here. |
Anonymous
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I find this thread (and the one in off-topic) annoying.
Wake up and smell the recession!!! I'm on forced furlough for the last 2 weeks of the year that was just announced last week. AND we haven't had raises in 3 years, So there is no empathy here. |
Anonymous
| It does not impact step/grade increases. |
Anonymous
| Cry me a river. Be grateful you have a job you jerk. |
Anonymous
| Things are tough all over. |