'I said no': Manager ‘rewards’ top-preforming employee with more workload but no raise, they purposely lower their work pace to spite them

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    "They asked if I wanted to grow with the company and I said no"
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    My manager asked me if I wanted to grow with the company, and I said no.
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    TL;DR: My job is decent. Been there three years. I refuse to work overtime. My last raise was Manager tried talking to me today about taking on more work/responsibility with the
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    incentive of "Hey, I know we I you on your raise in March, but if you take on more work, we'll give you just a smidge more money." I said no. Life is too short.
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    I've been with my company for almost three years. I'm college- educated and I'm about to be 39. It's a decent job, hybrid, and I WFH Thursdays and Fridays. I'm on salary, my pay is pretty decent
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    for what I do, but the first year I had an employee review, I was given over a $2 raise, and earlier this year (March) during my employee review, I was only given a $0.72 raise. I also never stay
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    late, but I do tend to sign on or show up a few minutes before my shift (like 15-30 minutes earlier, especially when WFH). Since then, I have completely changed my work habits. I don't chit chat with
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    anyone (people at your job are not your friends), keep my headphones in all day and stay in my own bubble, and complete all my work in a timely fashion. I don't hate my job, but I also don't love it. It's just a paycheck, really, while I figure other things out.
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    So this morning my boss asks me if she can speak with me privately a little bit later. Of course, I suffer from diagnosed panic dis⠀der and ar.. ety, so I tell her that telling an anxious person that you
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    want to talk to them "later" is a terrible thing to do, and can you please just tell me what it is. She says she wants to speak privately so my coworker doesn't hear, and that it's nothing bad, nothing about my work performance, but that it is regarding work.
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    Fast forward: We talk for about an hour, and she asks me where I see myself with the company in the future and my future in general. Since I'm working on being more authentic in my life, I
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    told her I really don't think about the future particularly because I've experienced so much loss in my life that I really can't and don't want to. She mentioned that I was unhappy with my raise, and I
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    said yes, and then she proposed that if I wasn't too overwhelmed with my current work load (I am, but I manage), that I could take on more responsibility and possibly get another raise. Yeah,
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    no. I outright told her I was fine in the position that I was currently in, that I have no interest "at this time" to grow or take on more responsibility, and that I'd like to just keep doing what I'm doing.
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    She said it was fine, but repeatedly mentioned that her and my big boss just think I "work so fast" so I can take on more responsibility. I actually do work fast, but I work at half the speed I can to do my current
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    work load, because I don't want more work to be given to me mainly other people's work, which I also expressed that I no longer wanted to be given to me, since that's what happens when you
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    work fast. So I told her that I'd like to stop being given that reputation, and that I just work normal and efficiently. Anyway, yeah, I just came here to vent. I think it went well. I think she was disappointed, though. ③
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    fenriq 4 days ago They acknowledge a raise and are still trying to cajole you into working harder for them? Lol. The reward for being good at your job is more work, they seem to think this is motivating.
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    burnthatburner1 · 4 days ago That was beautiful. I think managers have been conditioned to believe everyone is so desperate they'll do anything to get ahead. Things have changed over the last few years & they seem bewildered to get an authentic response. Hopefully it'll sink in that workers have more power now.
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    StephanUrkel21. 4 days ago I absolutely love the authenticity. I hope you're happier now that the lines are clear.
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    erinberrypie 4 days ago This is what I came here to say. Good on OP for sticking up for themselves and being direct. I also have a ety so I get the difficulty that comes with it. Proud of you!
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    blitzkriegboppp OP 3 days ago • Thank you! And I really, truly am.
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    black cat theschrodingerdog 4 days ago Start to work even slower so that you get rid of that reputation. If your work product is delivered through emails, check if the provider has the option to schedule emails (Outlook and Gmail have as far as I am aware). Set the emails with your work product to be sent right before the agreed deadline.
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    blitzkriegboppp OP. 4 days ago Lol. I'm waaaaay ahead of you, my friend. When I say I work at half the speed that I actually can, I really do, and I also use the Delay Delivery option in Outlook when sending e-mails.
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    Depending on my day (my work is unpredictable, so one day it could be very little, the next I could be swamped for several days), I try to pace things out depending on how long I think it would take a stupid person to do it.
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    So I process manual orders for a global toy company, right? So if I get a small order, it takes me in literal time about fifteen minutes to a half hour to create and verify everything, send the e-mail, etc. But I'll usually send
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    the e-mail an hour/hour and a half later. For a large order, or multiple orders, it takes me maybe an hour or two tops to finish in real time. I send it five or six hours from the time I received it. I'll do this with multiple projects or tasks at
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    one time, since my ADHD brain is good like that. Get it all done in one sitting, then stretch it out. And my work day ends at five/five-thirty depending on the day, so anything that comes in an hour before EOD either gets done the next day or that Monday morning.
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    I also have to factor in that although my manager is usually always busy, she does keep tabs on the work that comes in. Not super close, but she likes to say that she knows how long it takes to get my work done — like she said
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    today, when I mentioned to her that I also do other things on the back end involving Teams and my own separate responsibilities, so yeah, I just work at a regular pace. If I work too slow, it'll raise suspicion, which I do not want.

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