Star employees quit after getting denied $100/month raises, their loss costs the company over $300,000: 'You tripled their customers and they denied you a tiny raise'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 17, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Let this story serve as motivation for those of you who have been denied raises repeatedly. The truth of the matter is that most employers do not know how good they have it and aren't necessarily thinking of all the consequences should you choose to leave them in the dust. Your boss does not know exactly how worthy your efforts are, and if you spell them out for your employer and they still don't acknowledge said efforts with a much-deserved raise, then it's time to start considering your options as these star employees did.

They tripled their company's customer base yet were denied a $100 per month raise that would have amounted to $2400 per year between the two of them. Well, the head honchos would come to regret their decision-making because their star employees opted to quit on the spot. To make matters even worse for the company, their replacement ended up scamming customers and costing the company $300,000. Call me crazy but I would have taken the $2400 loss instead.

For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who was cheated out of a raise.

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    "Bosses deny us a $100 raise after being epic performers, have to pay >$300K because they got scammed." B Details
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    I and my coworker quit over being denied a $100/mo raise. The guy they hired stole > $300k from them.
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    TL:DR, Bosses deny us a $100 raise after being epic performers, have to pay >$300k bc they got scammed.
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    Back when PCs where the domain of the nerds, I got hired by a company that rented out a hall or county fair building, and then filled it
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    full of vendors in 10'x10' 'pipe and curtain' booths, selling everything from full-blown PCs to floppy disk holders.
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    Our job was to sell space at these events and then fly down and manage them. The company also made income by charging $5 admission.
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    Over the course of a year, my CW and I literally tripled the number of vendors buying slots, and resultantly, the the attendance also went way up.
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    I would frequently fly home from these shows with $6k in paper bag. (On one flight, when the flight attendant
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    asked if anyone had change for a hundred, as a joke, I pulled out the bag full of st ds of money and made change. Then got stopped by airport security when we landed, as a potential bank robber, swear this is true:)
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    Anyway, we both asked for a raise of $100/mo for our efforts. Refused outright, so we both quit and got better jobs.
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    They hired a guy called Reggie, (Not "Reggie", Reggie was his real name, what do I
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    care) who turned out to be a fi con artist. Reggie absconded from the show with over $6k cash in his paper bag. He also took all the pictures, pillows and lamps from the hotel that we regularly used for this event.
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    Wait; it gets better. He also took the entire customer list on paper, about the size of a decent Yellow Pages, which included all the customers' credit card info, and then he proceeded to order high- price items and have them delivered to ghost addresses in Fresno, CA.
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    In denying us a modest raise that would have cost them $2400 a year, they ended up re-paying all their customers back nearly $300,000.
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    SealingCord 10 hr. ago You tripled their customers and they denied you a tiny raise. What idiots.
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    Spacefreak 9 hr. ago "Well, part of your job description is to make improvements, so that's just part of your normal job..." I was literally told that by one of my managers when i asked for a raise.
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    1235813213455_1 8 hr. ago My teams continuous improvement goal is 500k/yr savings. We get bad reviews for not saving that much and of course nothing for doing more.
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    RedditAdminsLick .9 hr. ago Sounds like the company you worked for was following the same playbook as everyone else. Rule #1 of the playbook, NEVER FI NG GOVE YOUR EMPLOYEES RAISES! ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE CRITICAL TO YOUR BUSINESSES SUCCESS!
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