My wife is an immigration attorney and works for a non profit. She makes shit pay for an attorney (which was expected with a nonprofit I guess) but also has terrible benefits including no WFH ever and no maternity leave at all (guess what, we are pregnant!)
So my wife has been searching for gov jobs for an immigration atty and finally found one in our area – we just moved to NC and it’s slim pickings for that kind of work. Anyway, she was asked to provide all previous and current supervisor contact info. She did, but requested that they not contact her current employer… they did anyway.
Fast forward to yesterday, her supervisor comes into her office super pissed off about receiving the recommendation request from another job (and tbf it was seemingly out of the blue). Anyway, the supervisor immediately said that she’d bump my wife up $5k (from $65 to $70k)… but only if my wife agrees to turn down this other job, if she does get an offer. And she mentioned she was going to wait a month before implementing the raise, to make sure my wife actually turns it down. — for context, the gov job offers [up to] $85k.
Maybe I’m too close to this, but this is bullshit isn’t it? How tf does she think she can force her to effectively withdraw her application. What’s annoying if that IF my wife doesn’t get the job, she’s planning to stay and obv wants the raise.
Anyway, rant over. Not sure what I’m looking for, but any ideas would be appreciated.