I have been in Sales with my company for almost 6 years. 3 years ago I decided to focus on growth and busting my tail. I would volunteer to take on any task or workload and was learning a lot. My goal was to earn a promotion or raise in the near future.
Since then, our profits have doubled.. Not all my doing, obviously, but we are doing very very well as a company. My boss made me wait 8 months after asking for a raise to have a meeting and tell me no. After that, I started doing only what I'm asked to do, what's in my job description, and stop working at 5pm.
Today, my boss called me and said he's been “crunching the numbers” and noticed I am heavily underperforming. He's worried I'm tuned out and don't want to be there anymore. He even had a conversation with the president of the company about it.
They got used to a certain work ethic, told me I wasn't valuable enough to earn more, and are now upset with me doing my part, and only my part.
He was passive aggressively alluding to the fact that they are unhappy and need to see more. Honestly would not even care if they fired me because my conscience is clear and I've given them way more than what they pay me for.