Employee quits job after manager refuses to give them a raise, later finds out manager hired a less skilled replacement for a higher salary: ‘What's the point?’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 24, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

How long would you be willing to stay at a job without getting a proper raise?

People in the workforce have come to the realization that it is much better to leave a job and find another, than to stay at one workplace and fight for a higher pay or a promotion there. Companies have given up on ensuring their employees are happy where they are so that they would want to stay, and have resorted to easily replacing anyone who leaves, even if it costs them more.

Each of us, the employees, has a line we would not cross when it comes to sticking in a workplace without a change. Some give it a year, others stay for five years, but eventually, we all understand that if we want progress, it will probably not happen where we currently are.

The employee in the story below quit their job after their boss denied their request for a 10k salary raise. Then, they discover that the new hire who will replace them is getting 15k more than they did, meaning the boss was willing to pay more to hire someone new than to give their seasoned employee the raise they asked for.

Why? Keep scrolling to read what people had to say about that.

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    Manager refused to give me a 10k salary rise, but hired a less skilled employee for 15k more than my salary. What's the point?

    Hi, I have an office job. I'm very skilled at it and I'm in good terms with everyon* in the office. Few month ago I had my annual
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    performance review and got a perfect score. So I asked a 10k salary rise. I was offered 3k (that is basically a salary
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    deduction considering inflation). I refused and gave my 2 weeks because I can actually find another low salary job (a job with
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    the extra 10k will be hard, but one with my actual salary is nothing special). This week a coworker told me that they hired my
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    replacement for 15k more than my salary. But he has not much experience, so he will have to spent several weeks in formation
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    only. What's the point in letting me leave and hiring someone less experienced and at an higher salary? I could understand if they
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    hired someone very experienced or at a lower salary than mine, but this situation is no sense
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    introitusawaitus You challenged their authority and they are intimidated that you know your worth. So now their only choice is to hire
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    someone, even at a higher payscale, rather than to admit you were the best option. Keeping face is far too important than admitting a s v up.
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    spiritfiend Your employer was bluffing and you called the bluff. They will have to pay more money and you win by not having to work for that a__hole.
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    seanugengar Promotion nowadays, is finding a new job
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    ML1948 It's simple. If they rewarded loyalty, it would mean paying everyone who stays more money.
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    By underpaying everyone who stays and only paying to attract new talent, they save money. This works because most people hate job searching and change.
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    The companies exploit this. Loyalty is financially punished because on average it makes the company more money stiffing all their employees and rewarding "job- hoppers".
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    armoredphoenix1 More money allocated towards recruiting than retention.
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    Tremolat Switching jobs is the only guaranteed way to get substantial raises. A year after landing a job, start searching for another.
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    No-To-Newspeak My son told me that the only way to increase your salary and your position is to change companies. Youll rise same much higher and
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    faster than if you stay in the same place. Internal raises will always be lower than the starting salary at somewhere new.
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    JohnCasey3306 Sounds like new guy actually negotiated on his way in, as everyone here should do. Ignore any advertised salary range, it's
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    meaningless, it's what they'd like to pay. Negotiate for the contract you want I earned 30% more than my colleagues in the same role because they accepted the advertised salary range.
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    ROMULUX The point is companies are so afraid of people unionizing, they need a revolving door
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