Normal IT engineer here, I do the needful. Take requests from a number of different VPs, create some project plans, perform the work. I have no one else underneath me, so usually it is up to me to do everything.
Well, my boss (director of IT) has done very well for himself. He has equity in the company and recently we were bought for billions of dollars. He would retire but he spends too much on lavish vacations and expensive wine…
Normally I get a pretty large annual bonus when the company does well, but it brings my below market salary to respectable ranges. This year, they gave me a 4% raise and said JOB WELL DONE! but took away most of my annual bonus because 'the company is getting larger, we don't do big bonuses anymore'. So i had a meeting to discuss it.
Now at first he didnt believe that i got a pay cut, so i had to explain the numbers.
Then he said the reason why i didnt get promoted or a good bonus is because i failed to delegate my tasks to others and knowledge share, because that is how he became successful. But i have no junior employees, and he delegates all of his work to me. LOL