Well my fellow Pixians, I am at a crossroads. I have recently discovered that the job that I have had for the last five years, has decided to cap all hourly wages and stop merit raises all together. Now I understand why they are doing this being the evil, twisted, maniacal, world conglomerate that they are, cocksuckers. Pardon my expletive. The crossroads I find myself at is simply this. Do I stay at this now dead end job? or Do i take a job somewhere else with the risk of starting over again on the pay and benefits scale, and slowly work my way back up the ladder? I don't know what the hell to do, I know that my fellow Pixian's will have words of wisdom and encouragement for me. I just wish my professional life wasn't about to get the big FLUSH. Any and all comments will be most appreciated as always. Oh and my company can kiss this right in the middle

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If you love your job stay. If not go find one you do.

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may want to look closely at the benefits and compare to what other companies are offering.

if you can find better benefits at other places, it might be worth taking a bit of a pay cut.

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hungry? why wait.....eat me.

If you need new challenges move on. If you prefer to get your bonus from a rich personal life, you should consider staying.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

It's a bit silly to jump from a perfectly good ship into shark infested water.

Stay where you are until you have a better ship to jump to.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I left a job like that but I was young & living in a resort town. If you have more invested (& it sounds like you totally do) then you're going to have to think about it a lot more than I did at the time.

Then again, my last job also changed things to the detriment of the workers. They had sold the company for $150 million but then cut merit bonuses. A lot of good people left the company & I soon followed suit. You might find it the same at your place. What are your coworkers saying?

Bottomw line was I just couldn't respect my mangers anymore. They were making tons of money while reducing (or "changing") our wages.