For the last 3 years I had a boss that not only didn’t fit with our culture, he was also biased against women. My performance suffered under him because he liked to micromanage (not our culture) and he really stressed me out. Coupled with another manager who was useless, and being short staffed, I got a bad review at year end. The useless manager was fired late summer, and when a woman took his role and became the other’s boss he quit. Because of my bad review I got a bad merit increase. I only got 1%. I wasn’t expecting much but with inflation being 7.48% I thought they might take that into consideration. I was wrong and I shouldn’t be surprised. My rent is being raised $250 per month because of a new management company, which I won’t be able to afford without overtime, so I’m essentially taking a pay cut. A pretty significant one. At least I just got a 7% bonus which will help me pay some of credit card debt, but student loan repayments will start again next month. Hopefully my car won’t break down, I can’t afford any extras anymore.