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BeyondGeography

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27. Raises, let's see, I've had one very minor one in the last three years

Reply to Proud Public Servant (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:50 PM

Dec 2013

and that was after two pay cuts that added up to a 25 percent pay reduction. Extreme case, but I'm in an industry that's on the wrong side of the future (print publishing), and those of us who have survived thus far are happy to still be in the game.

Things either grow or they shrink. A lot of businesses still look at 2007 as their peak and the people associated with those jobs therein have had to endure plenty of hardship.

A roundabout way of saying your post is quite sensible. Pay freezes and cola cuts are old hat to many of us in the private sector; making them out to be the end of the world for the public sector is politically tone deaf, even dangerously so.

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