Top employee earns $500,000+ in profits then exposes their company's lies during the annual review meeting, spreading the truth and giving their coworkers the leverage to negotiate 10% raises: ‘Mission accomplished’

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    We got the whole "the company is going so poorly" spile, while in reality we had near 10% income over all. So I decided to take my part of the cake. Know your Worth
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    Like I said above we are hearing since the beginning of this year that we have to reduce cost and cut the investments because we don't have money.
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    Turns out that we are having 10% more business this year. After we had just shy of 18% last year. The sneaky thing about it is that the only reason I know about it is because I was part of several
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    higher management that I normally would not have been part of. There is this whole PsyOps to make everyone feel like we scrape by, while in reality we had massively grown.
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    I decided to take this newfound knowledge and enter into a round of wage negotiations. The fact that I knew combined with the performance I had (saved the company something between 250.000 to 500.000$) led to a raise north of 10% + other added benefits.
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    Yeah I might be an for using that knowledge as leverage, but I seriously have not an ounce of guilt in me.
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    fenriq Good work! Now let your coworkers know. nexutus OP I have already told them, even shown them the slides.
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    Some have followed suit with similar results, some are to scared to ask for a raise others refuse to accept this reality. In the end my focus is on makeing better for myself and for that I will put down a "mission sucessful".
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    Stolen Wishes We each do better when we look out for each other - and you did that. You freely shared what you had: information. You can't cure their fear or their programming.
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    lucasievici Why would you be an for using anything as leverage to get yourself a better deal? The job of companies is to squeeze you, and they do so shamelessly, with lies, as you've just posted, so your job should also be to shamelessly screw them back
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    KKADE You are not an at all actually that's literally how you negotiate raises. Reasons why you deserve a bump definitely include performance and savings metrics. I hope you get a good one Op.

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