A year ago, I was searching for jobs desperately and I got an offer with a company that looked decent enough. Fully WFH, Sat/Sun off, no overtime, no working on leaves, decent leave policy and a decent enough package at the time.
I quickly realised I've been lowballed when they sent the offer letter where the CTC is 200,000 (I work in India, so around 2.5K USD) more than what we discussed. The recruiter clumsily replied that it was a mistake and he sent the corrected offer letter. I knew then, I was underpaid but out of desperation, took the job.
I was promised webdev but never got to work in that domain to this day with the moron manager telling me I'm good enough where I am. This manager is also flaky as hell ( frequently changing tools we use, changing scrum periods and conventions, we didn't even have a proper scrum master and HR until 4 months ago).
I drudgingly work under this setup for close to a year and the topic for the raise comes and they give me a raise and when I asked for more, the new HR (who's despicable by the way) said it's final and it's good when compared to the market ( narrator: it was not).
Now, we planned for a company retreat (since it was WFH, we hadn't seen each other). They asked for confirmation before hand for booking flight tickets and I was all in. They booked the flight ticket a day ago and my bad luck comes into play with some personal family event coming around the time the retreat is planned and I had to tell them to cancel the flight bookings.
Thing is, the cancellation charges are to be paid and guess who's paying? Me. I don't know whether I can blame them but this has made me feel real low and I feel like it's time for a change. I just described my experience here because it was cathartic to do so.
Any advice/suggestions are welcome.