'My boss snubbed me after I saved the company $45,000' : Boss refuses to promote burnt out employee despite increased profit margins, leads to malicious compliance, boss gets made redundant

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    Rectangle - "Just because you make nice things and do extra work doesn't entitle you to a promotion."
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    Font - Posted by u/Lemonslothcake 11 hours ago Doing a good job does not mean you should get a raise... M OC
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    Font - At my last company I was working as a marketing executive. The team included. myself and a senior marketing executive. As time went on I began to take on more responsibilities to the point that I was doing more than the senior in the team (which they admitted).
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    Font - I spoke to my manager about what I need to do to get to a senior position. She gave me goals and a timeline, I hit those targets...and she would move the goal posts. She did this two more times. All the while I was using my skills to reduce costs and improve the projects I was working on. Specifically, I had started to design everything myself instead of using the expensive design agency. Saving the company £45,000 per year.
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    Font - I finally set another meeting with my manager to discuss a promotion, I showed her how I'd increased the profit margins of all my projects and all the extra work I'd been doing. Her response was, "just because you make nice things and do extra work doesn't entitle you to a promotion".
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    Font - I sat their shocked, while she said "but don't worry, you'll get there", then ended the meeting. She had lead me on about a promotion for 2 years. Here is where I started my malicious compliance. I stopped doing anything outside my job description, which included all the design work.
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    Font - Everything went to an agency, the whole team relied on my design work, but when I told them why I was stopping they were also quite happy to start using the expensive agency.
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    Font - It wasn't until our next quarterly meeting that my manager noticed our profits per project had harshly dropped. When she questioned why we were spending so much I said "as design is out of my remit we had to use an agency". She was livid, as she had to present the stats to the CEO that week, who ended up yelling at her in front of the directors.
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    Font - She tried to give me an official warning for sabotaging the team, but a talk with HR cleared that away when they realised it wasnt part of my role. She then told me that I had to sign a new contract with an updated job description, I declined that too.
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    Font - Eventually she asked me what it would take to get me to continue running my projects like I used to and I mentioned the job title and salary increase. She begrudgingly accepted.
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    Font - I was worried about her being hostile...but then c d hit and the lady was made redundant. I stayed for a further two years before finally moving to a much better place at the start of this year. And as of today her LinkedIn continues to show that she's unemployed.
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    Font - TL;DR manager keeps getting me to jump through hoops to get a promotion then tells me even if I do a good job I don't deserve one. So I stop doing anything out of my job description and cause the teams profits to decrease a steep amount. Manager get yelled at by CEO. I am offered the promotion and then my manager is made redundant in cl and has stayed unemployed since.
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    Font - maydayvoter11 +2.11 hr. ago Sometimes I think these "What can I do to get promoted" conversations need to be had not just with one's boss, but with the boss's boss as well. I've heard far too many horror stories about bosses who refuse to promote a great employee because then the great employee won't be there to make that boss look good anymore.
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    Font - Bonecup +1. 10 hr. ago That's what I did. Instead of talking with my foreman about what I needed to do, I talked with the project manager as he was the one that would be making that decision ✩ Vote Reply Share
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    Font - rhymeswithwalrus - 10 hr. ago the lady was made redundant. Best part right there. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - deevee234 6 hr. ago I had a job where I was told I would be up for a raise after a specific amount of time. I had taken on many new responsibilities since starting and when it was time to discuss my raise I was told that sales weren't up enough for me to get a raise so I told my boss that sales weren't my department and
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    Font - if they weren't able to give me a raise because other people weren't do their job then I will be resending all responsibilities I had taken on that were not included in my original job description. I was promptly given a raise
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    Font - When I left the job over a year later, on good terms, to move out of the country, they had to hire two people to replace me because I was so efficient at my job. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Mega---Moo 9 hr. ago I've never been good at staying within the job description...I see something that needs to be done and I figure out a way to make it happen.
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    Font - So, last Spring I typed up what I was doing, how much money it saved/earned, and let them know that I got a 36% raise. I also "volunteered" for a new additional task that got forgotten about frequently, for an additional 14%. Boosted my pay by 50% overnight...I'm still very pleased with myself. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Jyobachah +2.3 hr. ago Every job I've had, doing a good job rewarded me with more work. It never comes with a good form of reward, even if there was a way to earn cash incentives it would be removed very quickly.
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    Font - It just leads to you seeing what the lowest bar the company is willing to settle with and making that the marker for everyone else's productivity. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - Fiempre_sin_tabla +2·10 hr. ago I had started to design everything myself instead of using the expensive design agency. Ooh. Yyyyyeahhh. This...is often...the opposite of a savings. Designers aren't just people who sucker other people into paying them to use Illustrator and Photoshop.

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