It's been festering me a lot for a couple months.
Let me just outline my work environment and departments dynamics before going on with my problem.
I am a QA engineer working with 5 developers under a manager, let's call him John. My department is developing 3 apps and an app to administrate these apps, these 3 apps are available on Windows, iOS and Android, which means I need to juggle 12 environments, in addition I am responsible for user manuals.
On paper I work in QA department under “Jack”.
On December last year, CEO announced that we'll be paid annual bonus based on individual departments gain. On Q1 end, developers from department I work in got their bonuses, around 100% of their monthly income, I thought I would too, but I didn't and it broke my motivation to work. I took my complain to one of the board director and Jack and they both agreed that I receive my salary and since on paper I work under Jack, it was his decision to not give my any bonus and I don't deserve it anyway because Jack says my performance is just average, but he can't tell since I don't work with him and all contact we have is brought down to accepting my leave and vacation requests. I felt cheated on and devastated that my work goes unappreciated but I tried to deal with it until end of Q2 where I got 7% of my monthly income as a bonus. When I asked about it Jack said that he felt bad because I was omitted, after talking to a lawyer I learned that it's common practice among corporations to dodge lawsuits. Besides, why would I apply myself when I can just complain and get what I want? I'm looking for a different employees, but job market is not in favour right now. I AM PISSED.