Payscale-gate (as Nick has taken to calling the current change in our pay scale that doesn’t affect our current salary but affects my next promotion, and as such, all promotions after that for basically the rest of my career) continues. A coworker put together a nice spreadsheet showing the effect of the change and how our accumulated income will change over the next 5+ years. I’ve spoken to my group lead and my HR rep about it, and next in line on my “talk to” list is my branch chief. According to my HR rep, there are approximately 350 JSC employees affected by this change. It’s a fairly small number, so maybe that’s why they don’t seem to care.
The thing that really sucks is that I don’t think there’s anything that anyone at NASA can do. It’s a government regulation. The Office of Payment and Management tried to slip the change in under the radar to HR, who then tried to slip it in under the radar to us. In the end, it saves the government money, or at least allows them to shuffle money that should have been our salaries to something else.
Woohoo, my missing money is gonna build another bomber!
Ugh.
