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I think the problem is inflation and stagnant wages. When you get paid a living wage, but a teacher is making peanuts, it feels wrong.

It's not that you are getting paid too much. It's that most people are being paid too little.

It's when you put a cushion on someone's chair that effectively makes them sit at an increased height. You've been "raised".

barely anyone has though so that's why you go unnoticed so easily.

I work in IT, it's technically white collar, but I sure do feel like the digital equivalent of a mine worker some days.

It's pretty well known that the only way to get "promoted" in IT is to find a better paying position at another employer.

For every story of a person being given a raise, there a million stories of a person fighting for a raise and being denied.

Even the union jobs those others guys are talking about, you know what the raises are in our new contract? Five cents for the equivalent of three years of full time work.

Don't be fooled by the echo chamber of cushy office jobs that is so prevalent on Lemmy. You hear about these things because almost nobody else here has to work these shitty jobs like we do.

Incidentally, I work at a manufacturing company where the production crew are all union, but administration are not; so the blue collar guys are guaranteed annual raises, while us worthless white collar schmucks have to fight tooth and nail for every penny.

Negativity bias is very strong online. Good things do happen

Out of curiosity, is your plant unionized?

Sounds like you failed upwards.

“There is no such thing as paranoia, only extreme vigilance”

This happened to my father. Dedicated his whole life to one company. Did crazy overtime. Was well liked by the entire staff and management. Received all kinds of accolades. He always wanted to be upper management and was told if he worked hard enough he'd get it. He's retiring in 3 years. He's never been given an upper management job. He goes in and does the bare minimum now.

It isn't about feeling bad about them, it's about bad feelings about yourself. Low self-esteem, learned helplessness, expectations of bad outcomes, identification of bad traits in ourselves we know shouldn't come out at work, amongst others. This isn't even about the often referred to "Imposter Syndrome", though for some this is the truth, it's all about those expectations on ourselves and lack of appropriate communication by bosses and managers.

This is leadership at its most basic.

Ball up all the little insecurities we have at work and merge them with poor communication from people in authority, and you have an anxious and debilitating soup. Sprinkle in financial issues and general uncertainty about life and I think most of us just expect things to go wrong.

So yes, take what you can from an employer. Also try and take time where you can to give back to yourself.

Yeah about the same here. I know for certain that I have very good reputation within the company, and just recently got a fancy new title with big increase in salary but still unproductive days like today make me feel extremely shitty and feel just I'm slacking and they'll notice soon

Because, regrettably, you're not a cat.