I cried because I had no shoes...

'til I met the man who had no feet.

This was my first thought when my supervisor called an emergency staff meeting. She proceed to tell us that no one from the president of the company on down is receiving a raise. Up until now, performance reviews were conducted in February. At that time entitled employees would receive their raises. Now, I only started at the company in November 2007, so I was not entitled to review and raise in February 2008. I think this is an appropriate quote because there have been many, many layoffs at our company and just because there is a freeze on raises doesn't mean that there won't be more layoffs.

I guess now is the time for gratitude...

I'm grateful to still have a job.