I have been chronically overworked, talked over, looked over and brushed off my entire first year at this job. I got my 90 eval six months in. No raise. Year anniversary came and went. No eval.
A friend referred me to a job at her company that would pay me so much more, like $10k more. I interview in an hour.
This morning as if by fate my boss messages me that she finally has my year eval.
I got outstanding on everything and told I would get the max raise.
My raise was 77 cents. I could tell my boss expected me to be excited but I thought of how all the back breaking work and all that overtime and extra effort amounted to 77 cents. i dont mean to sound ungrateful but I was told raises here were very substantial so not to worry about the starting pay so much. I guess I should have seen that as a red flag. I just feel sad. and I'm hopefully about to be on my way out.