I got a raise? I think?

[MinimaMagistra]

Since coming back from my summer trip, I've had an irregular schedule at work. One day, three days, not a full shift, what have you. This past week, I was scheduled for three days but took another shift when a coworker asked me. So I was two hours shy of my usual number of hours from last year. No biggie. (A side note: I was getting paid $7.50 an hour. This was starting to wear on me, especially after finding out that a much more recent hire was making $9.)

So I take a look at my check, see how much I got. And it's over $50 more than usual. The checks are handwritten, with the Gross$ and various taxes/Social Security listed in the corner, so I take a second to work up how many hours I'd worked and divide that into the Gross. Easy enough, since I'd worked 30 hours and got $300 that week before taxes. I got a $2.50 raise? I'm a little stumped.

Sweet, though.

[powerboy]

I hate that. You get hired by a company, for a certain pay. Then the newer hire, gets paid more then you by the hour, and you work the same amount of hours. That crap pisses me off

[wagegoth]

I got a $2.50 raise? I'm a little stumped.

Sweet, though.

Hmmm. You want to ask to confirm your suspicion, but you don't want to ask in case they made a mistake and want the money back. Paradoxes suck.