The Funny Act of Salary Increments

Some organizations operate like a play unfolding on the stage where different acts get enacted, one scene after another.

The funniest act in the play is the one that concerns salary increments.

In some organizations, especially the small-sized ones, the salary increment process runs in parallel to and often in complete oblivion to the performance management process.

In such regressive organizations increments have to do more, and at times, only with loyalty to the top pig and number of years with the company.

Performance and contribution not only take a backseat in these organizations but many a times are actually thrown off the car itself!

The junior pigs discuss among themselves as to how the bounties of business would be distributed and shared.

The junior pig looking after human resources in the most inhumane manner is the cunningest and wickedest of them all.

He is a master manipulator who puts up the facade of fairness and transparency.

He is highly protective of his turf and guards it like a bloody dog.

He looks a like a straight-forward and nice guy but is a complete crook at the heart.

His process of determining base increment is fraught with mysteries and complete lack of transparency.

In the name of progressive approach he puts in a performance and compensation system that is opaque at the best and scandalous at the worst.

Increments are given on a basis that has no rhyme or reason.

The other junior pigs saunter in and our of his room.

Why saunter?

Its a family owned, regressive enterprise after all and everything is fixed.

The delivery junior pig doesn't say anything on any issue pertaining to the human resources junior pig.

After they are in the same party.

When the lights turn off, they are one and the same.

Both are stooges of the top pig.

In such organizations, certain junior pigs are asked to oversee areas they know nothing of and about.

The junior pigs are trusted pigs of the top pig.

The whole problem is with the top pig.

He has put in place a sick culture where loyalty rules.

And where pigs not only survive but thrive.

Pigs are abominable.

Junior pigs makes things worse.

If you are surrounded by junior pigs then you are in for interesting times.

You can never tell, but maybe you have a junior pig next door.

 A junior pig will always be that - a junior pig!

You got to be careful if you need to handle any.