Originally Posted by
RockyMtMadDog
It would not have mattered with PTIX above $6B. The only portion considered for conversion was $2.5B to $6.0B. That's a fixed amount that would have been converted to a fixed pay raise. We would still have received 20% PS on every dollar over $6B, whether $6B, $28B or $100B.
THAT'S the problem with you - you are tinkering with something we ALREADY have, and ALREADY earned, and calling it a pay raise. It's not a pay raise.
It's just a conversion. And a diversion.
A diversion to get our mind off of thinking about how minuscule a real "pay raise" we were really getting, and puff it up.
And the real pay raise was not a pay raise, just a COLA bump, which arguably, is not even abreast of real-time buying power inflation.
So stop the nonsense. Get a real pay raise first. (Do we have to define that? It means getting significantly higher W-2 -
without having to give something up)
Then you can tinker with a conversion.
...And even then, it's not truly a raise - it's just getting us back to where we were before.