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The day I turned down a raise.

I worked delivery for a printing company in the late 90s. My first boss was a stand up guy and took care of his people. When he retired the owmer's brother was put in charge and he was kind of a dick. At my first quarterly evaluation under this new boss he offered me a 5 cent raise (under old boss I'd gotten 25 to 50 cent raise each quarter). I told him to keep his 5 cents. He looks confused. I tell him if 5 cents is the best they can offer the company obviously needs the money more than I do and got up and walked out.


I worked delivery for a printing company in the late 90s. My first boss was a stand up guy and took care of his people. When he retired the owmer's brother was put in charge and he was kind of a dick. At my first quarterly evaluation under this new boss he offered me a 5 cent raise (under old boss I'd gotten 25 to 50 cent raise each quarter). I told him to keep his 5 cents. He looks confused. I tell him if 5 cents is the best they can offer the company obviously needs the money more than I do and got up and walked out.

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