I had been a high-performing employee in this company and during my performance review, I negotiated a raise. During the call they sounded like they want to give me the raise but their hands are tied and they just praised me on my work for a good hour. A day later, they send me a TWO PAGE LETTER saying why I don’t deserve the raise and they’re unreasonable things like, low activity on my mouse activity tracking app which is hella dodgy on its own.
I, of course, fought for myself and said a respectful but firm email about my value and why I was concerned about their metrics.
LITERALLY DAYS LATER they logged me off ALLL my accounts and sent me an immediate termination notice because they HACKED into my slack and read messages from co-workers. They cited many different reasons why I got fired, one of them was for playing Wordle. What the actual fuck.
There were also some mild complaining about salary, etc. nothing as bad as our FB group chat really…
So ya I sent them the biggest fuck you letter and now im jobless. After two years of giving them 600% revenue increase 🥲
moral of the story: NEVER do anything above your job description because they dont care about you, dont want to give you a raise, and would fire you over wordle