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Boss gives hardworking employee a mere 2% raise, expects employee to take on several coworkers' task loads in return but they refuse: ‘Why are you hiring people who are not working?’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee quits job after manager refuses to give them a raise, later finds out manager hired a less skilled replacement for a higher salary: ‘What's the point?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Experienced employee gets asked to train the new hire, leading him to discover the trainee is earning a higher salary: ‘I was honestly surprised the pay was this good for an entry-level gig’

Emma Saven

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Manager keeps leaving passive-aggressive notes about messy candy aisle, overworked grocery store employee secretly throws $1,000 of useless candy into trash and gets a raise: 'I was going to sort it all out for good'

Isabella Penn

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University employee tells off toxic CFO after being denied $2,000 bonus: '2 can play that game!'

Remy Millisky

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‘My primary motivation was revenge’: Top-performing employee is let go from their job, so they land the same role at their former company's top competitor and score a 30% raise

Lana DeGaetano

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CEO refuses to grant a raise for an all-star employee despite saving the company $250,000, then the big boss is forced to outsource contractors for twice the cost when the employee quits: ‘[He] resigned immediately'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘I'll just do my job slower’: Overworked employee decides to do the bare minimum after manager denies their overdue raise, leading manager to quickly regret their decision

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Raises are demotivating’: Boss refuses to give raises to employees, instead pays them in professional courses, forcing overworked employee to seek another job after 4 years without a raise

Bar Mor Hazut

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'The hypocrisy is unreal': Employee complains to CEO about delay in raises, CEO insists low pay is ‘a good thing’, employee quits job as a response

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Would you come back?’: A week after getting unexpectedly fired, employee gets contacted by former boss who offers them the job back, employee makes demands in response

Bar Mor Hazut

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Top employee earns $500,000+ in profits then exposes their company's lies during the annual review meeting, spreading the truth and giving their coworkers the leverage to negotiate 10% raises: ‘Mission accomplished’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'[They hired] someone for $30k more salary than me': All-star employee quits after 3 years with a company when they hire an unqualified outsider for 2x the pay

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss demands employee rewrite their job description with more responsibilities, but refuses to give them raise in return, employee arrives empty-handed instead: ‘I'll stick with that, thanks’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss forces employee to accept $1 raise while doubling their workload, employee refuses, informs boss to take it up with their lawyer: ‘He lost it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Overworked employee refuses to accept offered pay raise and quits job instead, leaving micromanager high and dry: ‘Quitting was super empowering’

Bar Mor Hazut

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