Employee Is Triggered After Being Told There’s No Money For Salary Increases While The Management Got 10% Raises And Bonuses, Bites Back In A Brilliant Response (2024)

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Staying loyal and bending over backward eventually has to pay off, right? After all, we’ve long heard that consistent hard work leads to something good, whether a promotion, a salary increase, or at least some sort of recognition. While this simple formula of success has been passed from generation to generation, the reality is a bit different. All too often, you see, the reward for good work is even more work.

Redditor ubermick knows this from personal experience. One week ago, this employee decided to share their annual performance review with the 2.3 million-strong Choosing Beggars online community. They have been going above and beyond expectations, taking on additional tasks and handling projects with flying colors. But while the company praised the worker for their efforts, they also took any last bit of hope of a raise away.

“While we understand that this may come as a disappointment, we know not every reward is financial,” the review stated. And as you can guess, this didn’t sit well with the user. Especially when they found out that the insufficient funds for their salary bump were apparently sufficient enough for the management. Read on for the whole story and weigh in on the situation in the comments!

Recently, this employee shared their glowing annual performance review showing appreciation for their efforts

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But while they hoped their hard work would finally pay off, the company had no intention of giving them any financial reward

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That reply was extremely well written. I'd love to see the final outcome!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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I worked for a company that our local top executive held a meeting where she told us glowingly how the company had made a huge percentage more money than it had ever made, and that it had exceeded all sales expectations by a huge margin. She then took a breath, turned her notes over, and said "Sadly thanks to the fact that the economy is struggling and we didn't make our goals, there will be no raises this year." She was an idiot, who didn't even seem to process how contradictory and asinine what she had just told us was. But she couldn't have made our greedy, sociopathic company's position on employees more clear. I think we lost more people that month than we ever had and our profitability tanked for the next few months.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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So a top performer, doing well above their peers, is given nothing but an "attaboy"?!? I see work as a deal between you and the company. I'll give them my best and they will compensate me for it. I see it as my job to go first and kill it. And when the company sees the value, they need to pay to get that level of work. In this case the company just created a problem. They got the benefit but didn't want to pay for it. So that leaves only a couple of options. 1) (very unlikely) the employee needs to stop doing anything extra until the company squares up with them. And they won't do that until the next review. So the employee will get a lower performance rating. 2)- (very likely) the employee moves on taking their skills and motivation with them. This happens with all top performers leaving the company with a bunch of "just enough" employees. Business starts to struggle, hiring costs go up, etc.. Stupid move on the company's part.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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It has been known for generations that mismanagement is the primary cause of business failure. When John D. Rockefeller was asked what one thing he would keep if he had to get rid of everything else, he replied "My people... with them I can get everything else back." I have no idea how well he paid his employees, but he knew their value.

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I worked for a company that our local top executive held a meeting where she told us glowingly how the company had made a huge percentage more money than it had ever made, and that it had exceeded all sales expectations by a huge margin. She then took a breath, turned her notes over, and said "Sadly thanks to the fact that the economy is struggling and we didn't make our goals, there will be no raises this year." She was an idiot, who didn't even seem to process how contradictory and asinine what she had just told us was. But she couldn't have made our greedy, sociopathic company's position on employees more clear. I think we lost more people that month than we ever had and our profitability tanked for the next few months.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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So a top performer, doing well above their peers, is given nothing but an "attaboy"?!? I see work as a deal between you and the company. I'll give them my best and they will compensate me for it. I see it as my job to go first and kill it. And when the company sees the value, they need to pay to get that level of work. In this case the company just created a problem. They got the benefit but didn't want to pay for it. So that leaves only a couple of options. 1) (very unlikely) the employee needs to stop doing anything extra until the company squares up with them. And they won't do that until the next review. So the employee will get a lower performance rating. 2)- (very likely) the employee moves on taking their skills and motivation with them. This happens with all top performers leaving the company with a bunch of "just enough" employees. Business starts to struggle, hiring costs go up, etc.. Stupid move on the company's part.

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It has been known for generations that mismanagement is the primary cause of business failure. When John D. Rockefeller was asked what one thing he would keep if he had to get rid of everything else, he replied "My people... with them I can get everything else back." I have no idea how well he paid his employees, but he knew their value.

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