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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/heeeeriii on 2026-08-16 05:51:50+00:00.

I need to vent because I'm still processing this.

I work as a shift supervisor at a warehouse. Last year during our annual review season I got called in and told I was getting a 3% raise. I was happy about it , cost of living has been brutal and every bit helps.

Today I was helping HR sort through some old files because we're switching to a new system, and I came across a wage adjustment sheet from last year. Turns out my base pay had actually been marked for a 2% cut company wide that year because of budget restructuring. My 3% raise was really just them canceling that planned cut and giving me a 1% bump on top of it.

Nobody told me any of this. I found out by accident, going through paperwork I wasn't even supposed to be looking at closely, just organizing it.

So for a full year I thought management did me a favor giving me a raise, when really they almost cut my pay and then patted themselves on the back for barely not doing it.

I asked my supervisor about it today, kind of carefully, not mentioning the file directly. He got weirdly quiet and said that's above my pay grade to explain which told me everything.

I don't even know what to do with this information. It doesn't change my current pay. But it changes how I see every raise conversation I've had with them since.