'Go get another offer': Boss tells employee to get an offer elsewhere to justify their request for a raise, cue malicious compliance

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    Gesture - "Go get another offer, I can't do anything unless you get another offer."
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    Font - "Go get another offer" - Okay! S OC This happened last summer. I'd been working at an office for about three years. We were starting to come back to a hybrid schedule. Perhaps not coincidentally, not long after I caught COVID and I was just so tired for next month. My workload had been getting ever higher and higher. Every time I'd tell my manager I had too much to do and we needed to offload some of it to someone else, he'd tell me "Well, you're doing a good job, keep it up!" He generall
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    Font - I'd previously been at a place I enjoyed, but I took a chance on move to fill some experience in my career I felt I needed. Even up to this point, despite the burnout, I felt like I was in the position I wanted to be in. Then my manager starts telling me about how he's working on hiring someone who used to work there before I did, who was at the place I had come from. He has the same level of experience as me, but he's commanding a salary 20+% higher than I was making. This really upset m
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    Font - "Go get another offer, I can't do anything unless you get another offer." Something in my head snapped. Between COVID fatigue and burnout I realized how exhausted I was and that it was time to leave. That day I called my previous employer, and three days later I had signed a job offer. I'm now making that 20% more, have an appropriate amount of work, and report to a manager who listens to what I say.
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    Font - MetsRule1977 13 hr. ago "I got another offer." "Okay, what's your offer so I can bump you up a bit." "Oh, you misunderstand me. This is my resignation, I'm not giving you the chance to equal it. Interesting, because if you had just bumped me up I would not be leaving."
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    Font - inertzero OP 13 hr. ago Pretty much how it went down
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    Smile - RaistlinWar48. 14 hr. ago Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Loss of a good worker.
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    Font - inertzero OP 14 hr. ago And it wasn't even necessary! When I had my exit interview with the next manager up the chain, he was shocked that my direct supervisor told me to get another offer. Apparently there are processes in place now that don't require another offer. If my manager was ever told about it, he clearly didn't listen.
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    Font - zeroingenuity It's wild how the difference here between 12 hr. ago bad and good management would just be saying "...another offer so I can prove to my leadership what we need to pay to retain you." Or "get another offer so I can offer you even more." Like, if you'd come back with a 25% boost maybe he could offer 30%. But that's clearly not the kind of manager he was in the first place.
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    Font - Nearby_Shirt_8074 13 hr. ago When is paying people what their worth going to make sense to an employer?
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    Font - inertzero OP. 13 hr. ago Never, they'll just keep complaining about a "labor shortage"""""
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    Font - HMS_Slartibartfast. 13 hr. ago Have you followed up to find out what happened to your boss? I'm hoping it involved his new hire finding out his workload just doubled, and then new hire ask for an immediate pay increase!
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    Font - inertzero OP 13 hr. ago I have not, but I've been thinking about checking in with some of the people I was closer with to see how things are going. I really wanted to see the project I was working on to its end so I'd like to know how it's going, whatever they can tell me.
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    Font - fuck-fascism. 11 hr. ago Did this to my old job early 2021. Now I make 50% more and just got a raise today only 9 months in.
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    Font - Fringefiles 8 hr. ago The best rule I ever learned as a manager: "people don't quit jobs, they quit s managers." Good job on standing up for yourself OP. the bosses who think leadership is demanding everything and giving no ground
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    Font - AHOY ipooponwizards. 7 hr. ago Last year I took a different job. When I told my manager that I was going to make twice as much to do half the work, he responded with: "You want to get paid more to do less?" Like I was the crazy one. Yes, MFer, I wanna get paid to do nothing! But less is all I can find right now!
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    Font - enjaydee 11 hr. ago. edited 8 hr. ago Great outcome. Even if they matched the higher salary, you still would have had to deal with what sounds like a terrible work environment. At a certain point, the money becomes less of a concern over mental health

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