<human>: I understand the economy is in rough shape but we just posted solid numbers for the past year and will continue doing well. I started at a new company last October and just had my year review. Just for reference, I was considered a temp or contract employee for the first 3-4 months of employment before they brought me on as a full employee. With extraordinary being the highest, I scored extraordinary on 7 out of 8 sections. 

Going into the review I assumed I wasn't going to get much of a raise due to the company being notorious for not giving them but expected the merit increase at least. They gave me the merit increase but pro-rated it for the months that I was contract and not full. This pro-rate reduces my actual raise to barely .5%.

Now before I go raise hell with my superiors, I wanted to see if I'm in the right to be pissed off about this or if this is actually normal. This is my first foray into the corporate structure, I came from independently owned companies where they could dole out raises on a whim.

So help me out Reddit, let me know if I have a case to barge into my VP's office guns blazing or if I should accept it and move on.

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: received only a merit increase for my year review but they pro-rated the increase and it only comes out to .5% increase