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At The Company we are evaluated each half-year on our performance and assigned a value up to a max of 5. We also recieve an annual compensation adjustment (raise) and bonus, based on our assigned performance band for the year. This year, for the first time in the ~6 years I've been with them, I've managed a > 4.00 for both half-year performance assessments! Sadly, this actually has no impact on our performance band assignment. So this means that, for the 3rd year in a row, I have recieved a B ranking, indicating my continued lack if friends in high places. Previously, this was scaled on a bell-curve from A to D, with a special E meaning "get this again and your gone." Now, the scale is ABC, with variation in the percent associated with them, so I only barely ended up on the above-average ranking this time. TL;DR I got a 2.7% raise and a bonus today. Time to get some commissions! :V

Just checked all of my accounts today. I'm at a whopping $0.00 on all of them. When you say broke, you prolly mean something like sub 500 bucks in your account like my boyfriend bitches about. I'm SUPER broke, with no chance of getting any money anytime soon unless I score a comm or I sell more of my belongings. This isn't a cry for help or anything, I'm just.. expression frustration. People see my laptop and my phone and see "Oh, I'm doing great!" For lunch today I have a bag of corn pops and a clif bar. I'm in class until 9:45 tonight, and the bus will take me an hour to get home. Any teacher who asks me "C'mon, you can't print one measly print?" when a print costs exactly $1.37 with tax and I have to say 'No' quietly in front of the class. When someone asks me 'you're wearing those pants again?' when I'm too embarrassed to say these are the only god damn pair of pants I have. When you go to a private college (yes, here's my problem), you go "up a class", I've been told. My minority buddies would make fun of me often. "Think you're white now that you're going to Ohio? Are you too good for state school?". There's a lot of facets of being poor that I hate, and just in general being embarrassed is one of them. And whenever someone asks 'want to do something with me' and you say 'nah', you risk them asking 'why?' and I don't have the mental energy to say 'because I'm fucking broke' over and over again. Anytime someone says 'Oh, its JUST $3.00' aggravates the shit out of me. Being broke fucking sucks. I'm sure a lot of people here would agree.

2nd pay week now that I haven't received a direct deposit from my new job, so I'm wildly assuming another paycheck will be coming via snail mail, which doesn't FUCKING HELP ME BECAUSE MY BANK IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE STATE. This is the first job I've had that it apparently takes forever to get to direct deposited my meager earnings. Every other job it's been IMMEDIATE. So now I get to fucking gamble and mail it out...if my partner remembers to send it to HIS bank, which is significantly closer. No, I'm not setting up another account at a local bank because dealing with two different banks in two different states is ridiculous. No, not closing my accounts from my bank back home because I've been banking with them for just shy of 10yrs. it's my money and i NEED IT NAOW :Ui fucking hate that commercial