Science teacher's $6k raise request is denied, so they accept a new job with a 40% pay increase; admin backpedals with too little, too late: ‘I will not be changing my mind’

Paying an existing employee $6k more per month is absolutely unheard of for admin. But spending the same amount to hire a new, more expensive candidate for the position (not to mention going through the tedium of the hiring process, training new employees, and figuring out their unknown dynamic), now that's something admin folks think is the simpler option. 

Anyone who's spent longer than 10 seconds in the workforce knows that hiring a new employee is going to cost much more than keeping a tenured staff member, especially when they're an underpaid, overqualified science teacher making $28,000 a year…

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