I had a very good review a few weeks ago and asked for a raise since my position has changed 4 times in the 1.5 years I’ve been at the company and I’ve taken on more and more responsibilities. I’ve actually always had ‘exceeds expectations’ for all of my reviews at this job. I was denied a raise and also denied any other increase to PTO or etc. My coworker who has been there for over 3 years without a pay increase also asked for a raise at their review and was denied.
The man-child of a CEO had been acting weird and offended since all this happened and sent out a company wide (5 people work there ) email last week stating gems like:
- “There is no guarantee any of you will have a job here in six months—or even six weeks.”
- “If there are interpersonal issues or unnecessary emotional exchanges, we are going to move on. If you do not feel this is fair or reasonable, you should move on. “
- and my personal favorite: “ It is a privilege and honor for you to work for this business and my full expectation is that you will treat it as such. “
This morning as soon as we returned from the Christmas break, he asked me to meet and informed me that my position was being eliminated because he feels like we are “going in different directions.” Despite the fact I had just been keeping my head down and continuing to do a good job, regardless of the amount of disdain and disgust I felt towards him. I did like my job and I was really good at it. Thankfully I had already updated my resume and started job hunting.
I’m just SO tired of going above and beyond in hopes I’ll be rewarded for it. Tired of asking to be fairly compensated for my efforts and experience and being scoffed at. Really tired of feeling taken advantage of by companies that genuinely don’t give a shit about me.
I know I’ll be okay in the end and this is probably a blessing in disguise, but wow am I mentally exhausted from the past few weeks.
Just needed to vent because I know all of you get it.
P.S. if anyone knows of any good remote customer support/research/project management positions please feel free to reach out