After 5.5 years working for the same firm, I presented my case for a raise. Took them a month to finally say no. Today I gave my notice.

Boss told me he knew I could leave and get a 20% raise with a competitor but asked me to stick around with them until March (six months away) instead, without promise of the same raise, and we could talk about it again then. Stick around… for what? Goodbye.