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Gosh, darn it do be tricky to articulate though. I’ll give you that.
lol that's a 0.10 % pay raise
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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How much can you even overcomplicate things anyway. If you want to calculate any 10% increase all you have to do is to multiply by 110%, which is of course 1.1, but you don't even need to know that anymore if you use a good enough tool.
Even simpler, just move the decimal point over. $2.64. Add that to the base salary and you get $28.99.
Yeah, a 10% percent pay raise.
It’s like “moronsayswhat “ but with your livelihood!
We said “we’re offering you a TEN^thofa^ percent raise if you agree with this say ‘thank you’”
Now kiss capitalism’s hand, thank it and get back to work.
This seems a lot like the old "Verizon doesn't understand the difference between dollars and cents".
They are both evidence that we are terrible at math, and somehow that doesn't stop us from being in positions that require math.
We? We? What are you speaking French? Oui? I'm fine with math.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this obviously made up thing never happened.
I mean, the fact is thousands of U.S. companies illegally underpay their workers, and the Labor Department rarely punishes them, (arc'd), so it's a pretty believable bit
Yeah the wage theft is believable it's the pretending not to understand what 10% means that marks it as clearly made up.
Could be real.
I had an employer give a 3% raise one year. But it was only .75% per quarter, which they did not disclose during the announcement.
So by the end of the year, you did technically get the whole 3% so they didn't actually lie about it.
Didn't help that cost of living had gone up by 8-12% at the time. So even a 3% raise that we were promised was a pay cut when you look at the entire picture.
I don't think it could. Anyone who knows that 10% = 0.1 can tell that 0.03 is clearly not 10% of 26.
?? It obviously happened, it says right there. To "this girl." /s
Wage theft is a real problem but these unconfirmable ragebait images are useless and anyone sharing them should be ashamed. Leave that shit on TikTok. Cite your sources, a meme isn't evidence.
I think this is a case where Hanlon's Razor applies.
Hard Disagree.
You should scrutinize wage theft.
When you send the email to ask about the error and they send you this clearly incorrect calculation, you are scrutinizing wage theft. Clearly a mistake.
This would be an exceedingly rare form of wage theft, and would require HR to be much smarter than the average HR
Thats not what Hanlon’s razor is about. Hanlon’s razor just states that people are more likely to be stupid than cruel. You can scrutinize wage theft without immediately jumping to the conclusion that the hr worker is maliciously altering your paycheck for the companies gain.
Weird, the employment law I'm familiar with goes to automatic triple damages for failing to pay any part of wages on the first day they are unpaid for any reason, almost as if the law there decided long ago that Hanlon's Razor doesn't apply to the situation because wage theft is the norm, not the mistaken exception.
I'm not high, but I wish I was after re-reading this many time.
What exactly is 3 cents per hour 10% of?
The calculation done wrong, the formula in the brackets should be either 1 + 0.10 or 1 + 10/100, both resulting in +10% on the total wage. The person who wrote the formula presumably combined the two to get +0.1%.
An ‘innocent’ mistake if you don’t take into account that such mistakes in favour of employer are very common and don’t get the same repercussions as similar mistakes done by workers themselves. As a general rule a worker should never give their boss the benefit of doubt due to the power imbalance that hugely favours the boss in any type of conflict.
3 cents/hr is 10% of 30 cents/hr. Hope I could help.
They didn't give her a ten percent raise, but a hundredth of ten percent raise, for some reason (I would say for fraudulent reasons, but it could just be a mistake)
It's a 0.10% pay rise.
Either 10% or 0.10x would be correct; they combined them.
It's a nice thought but there never will be.
All you can do is be willing to do good in your own little sphere, like the other day, when I helped push a stranger's car out of an icy parking spot here in KC. We're still recovering from 16 inches of snow two weeks ago. There will always be little things you can do to make the world better.
Also, don't give your money to political parties. Put it in the stock market instead, because your investments will have representation in Washington and more money means you can do more good.
This is lethally just a software bug / dumb mistake
Well, the math does check out… /s