A few years ago, I met a very lively woman. She loved to talk and brag about herself.
I didn't have anything against her and occasionally entertained her by simply shooting the breeze with her.
She told me her husband got a one time 60k bonus (in addition to his 10% pay raise) when his “minions” received a generous 2.5% pay raise. She told me he was a VP of a non profit company. They had to give extra earnings to their employees to retain the non profit status.
He constantly came up with ideas to make us worker harder without getting paid more.
She had no idea I was one of his “minions”.