Working at an IT company as a non-engineer. I know everyone is replaceable but what I’ve done in my area has completely changed the company for the better. I survived the layoff wave of the end of last year but ever since then conditions only kept getting worse. Now things are looking back up again so my one coworker and I asked the company to sponsor a training course for us, since in this area we have no career path, no prospects of getting a raise, not a single performance incentive, and no way to grow or improve our work. It would be online so if the company felt stingy enough, we could even do the training from the same account and only pay once. Well, they were stingy enough and more because the answer was simply no.