Manager lowballs cybersecurity employee with a 12% raise, so the employee internally transfers to another team and gets a 28% raise: ‘Gotta love the corporate world’

Pay raises in the workplace are what keep employees lower in the corporate hierarchy on track to try and believe they can become something bigger and greater someday (even if that's just the lie they sell us so we keep clocking in every morning). Everybody needs money, especially right now, so companies can really do whatever they want and give us as little money as necessary because, well, that's the way the world works.

However, this employee refuses to accept that. They want that sizable pay raise, and they'll look elsewhere to get it. If you've ever left your workplace for greener pastures, you know that it's equally nerve-wracking and exciting once you figure out that you're worth way more than the small number your ex-company attached to you.

This employee makes a point to internally transfer to another team at their company when their boss tries to tell them the other team cannot give them a pay raise of over 12%, which is allegedly the cap for internal transfer raises. Well, what do you know? A few days later, a nice letter stating the employee's 28% pay increase enters the chat. What was that, boss? Maybe it was just the wind…

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