This isn’t me just saying stuff.

https://www.payscale.com/research-and-insights/employee-turnover-pay-raises/

The long and short of this is that getting a raise doesn’t stop someone from looking for a new job or increase satisfaction with the company. Worse, if you ask for, say $10 more and hour and they give you $8 you are less happy than if you get no raise.

Paying people well is important, and people say it’s a primary motivator, but it isn’t as important as they think. Bad bosses, bad work environments and unsatisfying work are bigger factors than pay raises.

but in the context of this post, let’s not be ridiculous

It says a pay raise, not new pay bracket. A 10% raise is substantial, and likely not enough to keep someone. The number one reason people leave a job is their direct supervisor.

To be absolutely clear a ping pong table won’t make you stay with a job. A work place that’s more relaxed and a boss that doesn’t yell at you for taking 5? Maybe a workplace where you enjoy spending time with your coworkers? That’ll do it. The idea is HR can to help nudge towards type of change It doesn’t work and is stupid, but that’s the thinking.

And there are times a small raise will keep an employee, there are times more responsibilities will keep an employee. This is a poor question in general.

Think of the last job you quit. Would a 5% raise change anything?

A ping pong table is an asinine thing to give, but the point of “more money doesn’t make you stay” has been proven by many studies.

When you quit a job because it doesn’t pay enough it’s not a matter of a small raise, it’s a normally a big jump in pay. Until you get to substantial raises, like 10-20k a year, you aren’t really worried about the pay as much as your direct supervisor and the work load. A bump from 60k a year to 61k a year won’t make you stay in a job you hate. 60k to 100k might, but that’s not just a raise, that’s a different class of pay.

It’s not easy.

When I feel myself rushing I try to think about why I’m in a rush and what I’ll actually gain. Like maybe rushing through a task will let me play a video game or something, but what does that do? Let’s me relax? Why not relax now and try to enjoy what I’m doing, or at least avoid having to do it twice.

The journey is the destination.

I have a problem with rushing through things. This has helped me slow down and appreciate what I’m doing. I’m not doing something so I can enjoy it after it’s done, I’m doing it to enjoy what I’m doing.

Green. All other colors are objectively inferior.

For me, it was, sadly, Final Fantasy Spirits Within.

I don’t like the movie, but when it was in theaters every one of my friends wanted to see it, and schedules didn’t line up. Buddy is in town for 3 days “hey let’s see a movie!” Every time it ended up being that damn movie.

I ended up seeing it in the theaters 10 times.