The company I work for had several rounds of layoffs early this year, and due to the increased workload, many people have quit. They've had a senior position open for a few months now, but they're lowballing salary, so nobody has taken the bait.
My manager has been covering for this unfulfilled role, and it's taken enough of her time that she has been unable to complete her own job tasks. Out of convenience, she's asked the executives if they could offer the role to me. It would be a promotion, and I am more than qualified for it.
However, I know I'll be doing my job plus this new job. While they've been hesitant to quote me compensation, I pushed, and I now know they only want to offer me a 15-20% raise, which barely covers inflation. Other job offers available right now with this exact role offer a range of $25-45k more than what they want to offer me.
“We want to help you explore your professional skills and range” they claim. I know they're offering this out of convenience for themselves. What THEY don't know is that I've been considering quitting for months, with a timeline of definitively quitting in the next 6 months. We're a dual-income household, and we have our own business, so we've been planning on me taking more responsibility there for some time.
I'm fully prepared to leverage my intel and apathy to get more money, and if they don't reciprocate, I'm leaving. And oh, it'll be so sweet if I do.