My husband is a tech guy in a really hot field right now. He hasn’t gotten a raise or promotion in 4 years despite taking on a ton more responsibility.
He has had his eye on a position 2 management levels up and he’s been working towards it, knowing that the guy who had it was thinking about leaving.
Well the guy left. And they killed the position. Instead they gave my husband and one other coworker the title of [position name] steering committee. No. No extra money.
They presented it to him like it was a huge step up. He accepted it but I could tell he was heartbroken.
I told him he had to leave, he can literally double his money anywhere else, but he says he’s passionate about the work, likes his coworkers, and doesn’t want to start all over, which I totally get.
Idk where to go from here except that you know, that company can go eat a bag of dicks. Idk where they get off treating loyal employees like this.