If your company is doing well then I guess you can use it to justify higher inflation....

if your company is not doing well then i guess it's hard for them to bear your cost on higher inflation. Higher petrol price doesnt translate to higher revenue or lower operating cost for your company - assuming most companies. You'll most likely have to justify higher pay by proving that you can do more, youve been contributing more, how do you do contribute to the business basically.

There is perfect sense to that... Because not all companies will benefit from higher petrol price. Your "logic" doesn't differentiate companies but it's a view of the economy as a whole. And spouting "Unless your company is crappy in making a product thus there are no one buying thus making a loss.
" shows that you really dont understand business at all. Not all business can decide whatever price they want to charge to customers on their products, they can only do so if their competitors react to the higher cost as well and there are enough consumers who are willing to absorb the higher priced product/service. Some companies will have to suffer margin compression on higher fuel cost.

If your business doesn't suffer from the higher cost, then i think you have a good case to ask for an increment to compensate higher inflation cost in your life but companies don't owe you a living. You can't just say I deserve more money because the chicken i used to eat cost RM2 less. Just like the chicken sellers can't force you to eat chicken, he can raise the price but you might want to spend it on other meat because you don't think it's worth it.

On a more extreme example, I can't say i want 10% increment on my pay immediately because I used to eat imported 10 grain rice that used to be cheaper when ringgit was stronger. Because ringgit has weakened 10%, import cost has increased, i need the company to compensate me on that... .even though my company might be a totally non export oriented company that benefits nothing from a weaker ringgit. You get what i mean?

Having said that, i still think it's a bad way to justify a higher pay. You'll ge rewarded much better if you could prove that your contribution is material to company's top line or bottom line performance. If your productivity increases, given our job market having shortage of good quality workers, you'll end up beign able to demand much better pay.

I'm very concern about the feeling of massive self entitlement amongst workers these days. I highly encourage ppl to fight for a higher pay, demand what they deserve to get their fair share of the company's profit, please do not get exploited by companies. But please also don't think of it as a non-profit organisation. Job hopping, to a certain extent, is something i find quite healthy for workers to obtain better pay and better exposures and because of the competition for better workers, companies can't underpay and yet get good staff.

I know what i wrote wouldn't be that popular but i feel that there's a need to do it because if the wrong mentality pervades in the labour workforce, our workforce will be seen as expensive and unproductive relative to other countries. I hope i don't come across as having no sympathy for people who are suffering from higher inflation because I don't earn enough that basic necessities become a small part of my income yet too. However, Im sure most workers want to do better for themselves because they know their service is worth more or they can do more and not because corporates should sympathize with the rising cost situation. Our country isn't that bad at protecting a minimum level of household income. We have a minimum wage now although that's too low for major cities, i agree. But don't forget, we have 10% of our workforce as civil servants. Thailand has 4%, other countries in the region have around 5%. This has guaranteed a low unemployment in our country for a long time.