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Originally Posted by NewPhin

My wife works from home as a graphic designer/creative director. It's time for their yearly reviews when they're awarded raises. Every year, the owners email them their performance reviews and tell them if they're "on target" "above target" or "below target" which determines their raise. In the past, the raise is pretty much a fixed % of their income based on where they fall on the "target scale."

This year, the boss told them that they'll be getting their reviews on Monday, but that she's going to set up a phone call with each of them to discuss the results of the review. With the economy being what it is, we're trying to guess if this means they won't be getting raises this year.

Some more background information: the company has expanded quite a bit in the last year into new markets. My wife put together and managed an account that should be very big (as indicated by sales to distributors at market in December) with a big name wedding planner (Mindy Weiss, the one that planned Fergie and Josh's wedding for those who keep up with that shit). They also hired a new talented designer who my wife headhunted. On top of that, they're expanding into jewelry, and my wife has helped quite a bit with that as she has some background in jewelry design.


We can't decide if the new addition of the phone call means:
1) They won't be getting a raise or will be getting a much smaller raise.
2) Nothing much, the boss just wants to add the phone call in as a further method of discussing their reviews more fully.
3) There will be a more significant differentiation in raises between employees this year, and the boss wants to avoid forwarded emails between employees where people can see each other's raises inadvertently.


The raise isn't a huge deal for us financially, but I'd like to see my wife rewarded for the hard work she's put in this year. It will be a shame if she worked her ass off growing the company this past year and doesn't see a return on her extra time investment.

In other words, if outcome 1, I've got to start figuring out ways to make my wife feel better now and have them ready to roll out should there be no raises.

You're a good dude.