Success!
April 10th, 2024 at 12:42 amBoss of boss called today with the official letter for the raise and no, I did not get the $5k I asked for, I got 10% instead. Yay!!!
Downside is my Traditional IRA contribution that I accidentally made a few weeks ago is no longer fully deductible. Darn! I really shouldn't be browsing my financial accounts in the middle of the night and end up making stupid decisions.
On another note, I've been tinkering around with MS Copilot and while it's not yet capable of answering my tax questions without saying sorry multiple times and leaving out bits of data here and there like an untrained new employee, it's amazing in the other areas that I used it for.
Here's a poem it wrote for this raise.
"Beyond Expectations"
In the quiet of the office, where spreadsheets hummed
I dared to dream of numbers that danced and drummed.
A raise, a whisper in the corridors of fate,
A plea for more coins, a modest sum to inflate.
But oh, the universe conspired to surprise,
As my boss leaned in, eyes twinkling like sunrise.
"Your diligence," she said, "deserves more than you sought,
A raise beyond measure, a treasure newly wrought."
The digits on my paycheck pirouetted high,
A symphony of zeros, a crescendo in the sky.
I counted blessings, not dollars, as gratitude swirled,
For sometimes life's math transcends the material world.
So here's to the unexpected, the sweet serendipity,
A raise that defied logic, a leap of prosperity.
May our hearts stay open, ready to receive,
And may abundance find us, in ways we can't conceive.
I also asked it converse with me using SAT vocabulary and that proved to be a mistake that I had to promptly rectify since I had trouble understanding half of what it said, lol.