Antiwork

Created a throwaway to make this post because I’m very frustrated. I will try not to make this story too long, but trying to gauge if my anger is warranted and what I should do. For some background: I am working at my first job out of college (I have had internships and prior work experience in my field, but this is my first full-time job) and I have been working at this company for just over a year and was promoted recently from associate to analyst. This is where everything starts to go downhill. So a couple weeks ago my coworkers and I started talking about our salaries because our company had been bread-crumbing us for months with company wide raises because we were recently acquired by a larger company backed by a private equity firm. This had been a long time coming because our company, self-admittedly by our…