Boss begs employee to stay when they quit after being denied a raise: 'I can give you what ever you want'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Nov 16, 2024 12:00 PM EST

It's pretty safe to say that your employer will never fully appreciate your contribution until after you leave. At this point, they will realize that your contribution isn't quite as easy to replicate as they thought, leading to productivity losses that they will have to pay a lot more to replicate. Of course, they could have just given you a moderate raise and saved more money than they ended up spending. A certain part of this is misreading the relationship, overestimating the hold they have over you, and thinking that you'll just stay if they match whatever offer you get elsewhere, not realizing that by the time you've gone through the effort of applying to and interviewing for other jobs, it's far more likely that you'll just take that to try something new.

This boss was confident that their subordinate wasn't going to leave, constantly brushing off and discrediting their years of experience and accomplishments. It was only once they told their boss they were leaving that their boss started to panic and trying to get them to stay.

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    RESIGNATION
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    Boss pulled the "well I can give you what ever you want" speech AFTER I gave notice. I don't understand why bosses are so short sighted and have such a slave driven mentality. Back story is I work in a field that requires by law for someone with my credentials to preform tasks. If no one in the store has these credentials they can't preform.
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    Months ago unknown to me, the place was sold and someone who has no credentials in the state | live in buy the practice. Over the next few months he repeatly breaks the laws and rules putting my license at risk. I constantly tell him this isn't illegal yet he makes me feel small and that I have nothing to worry about.
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    Nothing but. "I have 40years experience" and "oh you are exaggerating". Constant head butting. Constants arguments. And 8 months in I finally have enough. I give notice. And his life practically collapses.
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    "Well I can give you those days off". I originally wanted certain time off in which he gave me sh about. He told me "managers arnt suppose to take Mondays off or well if I give you Saturdays off then your coworkers may want a Saturday off(in which I replayed. Good they should have time off as well).
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    He constantly told me I wasn't good at manager. talked down to me, and made me feel like an idiot while purposely breaking the rules in front of me knowing I could lose my License if something where to be reported.
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    Now after I gave notice. He is scrambling. He has no one to fill my position. His hours he changed the store to are absolutely garbage. And I am just watching the fire happen from afar. Also at the end of my two weeks. He has the audacity to say. Well two weeks isn't a a lot of time to replace someone can you tell your new job to extend your start date?
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    "No". He made his bed. He can lay and di in it. Today's owners think people should work 60 hours a week with no home life. Pride will ruin you.
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    UnusualAd1425 It would be a shame if whatever regulatory body governs you find out he's not got someone licensed once you leave.
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    OdinTheHugger Cover your Take down notes of everything you remember him telling you up to this point. Especially how he's going to skirt the legal requirements. Screenshot texts and emails. Don't let him try and throw you under for his f ups.
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    series-hybrid Todays owners think YOU should work 60 hours a week, while they clear their head at a golf course, in order to allow them to make great decisions about the future path of the company. They are such unappreciated geniuses...
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    DestinysCalling Me after working a terrible job for sh wages for 21 years: I'd like to hand my notice in Him: Is it the money? After I left he had to pay my replacement the going rate which meant he had to up the wages for all the secretaries. So all the time I was there he could pay goof wages, he just didn't want to.
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    ejrhonda79 Well two weeks isn't a a lot of time to replace someone can you tell your new job to extend your start date? Verbally: "Oh yeah for sure how long do you need? Yes I'll see what I can do". End of two-weeks become dust in the wind.
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    [deleted] Too little too late, the ship has sailed. They only do this in hopes you'll reconsider but they'll be listing your job. in either case.
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    PhilosopherSa... i would not have even give 2 weeks fk them
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