TL;DR: I forced my boss to give me a raise then a bonus and now I'm pretty sure he's looking to fire me.
I work for Two Men and a Truck as a lead customer service rep. I was getting ready to have a baby last year and asked for a raise to keep up with my rent increase so I could focus on the baby. My boss argued against it, but eventually we negotiated a new deal that wasn't as much as I wanted but it was enough. But one of the things he said stuck with me. He told me “We are not responsible for what happens outside of your work”
I used to work here because I liked it until he took over as my boss. The whole “we're a family” cliche was actually true here. But to him we are expendable assets. I decided that if this was going to be a transactional relationship then I'd get as much out of it as possible.
We lost two employees due to different personal reasons and the rest of us had to pick up the slack for a while. Because of the extra work I demanded another raise. This time I gave them an offer letter from another employer and let him know I'd take it if they didn't match it, which he did but was very unhappy about it.
Then we lost another employee. My workload increased again so I told him I either wanted another raise or a large bonus or he could do the work himself.
He isn't actually capable of doing my job so he was forced to hand over a very nice bonus check.
Now we're starting to fill the posts that were vacant and my workload is going down and I'm pretty sure he's looking to get rid of me.
Luckily I'm still getting similar offers from other companies and I don't regret for a second the way I handled the boss.