'Girl, it's a job not a family': Boss denies overworked employee a raise despite telling her the company would 'crumble' without her

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jul 8, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

Here's further proof that the root of workplace drama is not that young people don't want to work anymore; it's that they don't want to be overworked and underpaid. We have all seen Kim Kardashian spew that "it seems like nobody wants to work anymore" nonsense. We've seen it, we've memed it, we've mocked it, and most importantly, we've rejected it. That mentality is a simple solution to a far more complex one that requires some serious reevaluation of workplace culture and toxic work environments.

This Redditor left graduate school for a corporate job in a tangential field to what she actually wants to be doing (an experience many of us know all too well). She shared her story via this thread on Reddit and explained how she had trouble adjusting to the workflow of her startup company. The first glaring red flag came when the person who was supposed to have trained her (and who trained her poorly) quit with no notice. When their workload was redistributed across the team, guess who suddenly was thrust into doing way more work than what she signed up for? That would be OP, of course. And guess who didn't see any sort of change in her compensation during that time? Ding ding! It's OP again.

The saddest part of the story is when her boss denied her a raise yet again but attempted to gain loyalty by guilting OP and saying the company would completely fall apart if she were to quit. This is classic emotional manipulation from an employer. As folks in the comments section below suggested, that sounds like the company's problem, not OP's! Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the motivational reactions. For more stories like this, here's one about a boss who threatened to fire an employee after they posted their salary online.

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