Entitled boss loses $400,000 after an all-star employee quits, making him regret the last 4 years of refusing raise requests: ‘I was the jack-of-all-trades'

Why is it so hard to pay your best employees a fair wage? 

With $400k down the drain, perhaps this boss should have considered a simple wage increase for his all-star employee, but it's too late for all of that now.

Bosses have this bad habit of selfishly hogging their company's wealth, buying new Porsches every 6 months, and watching their loyal workers scrounge together the funds for their annual oil change. The longer a boss can hold out on giving out raises to their workforce, the more money goes directly into their pockets; greed is unfortunately that simple. 

But there comes a time in every worker's life, especially in blue-collar fields, when they find themselves to be indispensable. You'd think that being an all-star employee who basically runs the company would grant you the leverage to name your price for your upcoming salary, but this distribution manager never saw this fantasy unfold. Although he was handling operations, managing clients, and running the company end-to-end, his boss didn't seem to recognize his worth. Arrogant and consumed with that kind of blind, biblical greed, the boss refused his distribution manager's raise requests, constantly coming up with new excuses to pin his warehouse manager under his thumb. 

Yet, even though the boss's pockets were well-lined with green, he never wanted to share the wealth with those who actually did the work. Alas, his delusion persisted even after his star employee submitted his resignation notice, refusing to acknowledge his worth within the ranks. But after he quit, and following 6 week company tailspin, the boss was forced to eat his words, watching his company crumble without his best and brightest. 

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  • Male warehouse foreman looking at his paperwork on the job.
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  • Warehouse managers don't get enough credit. As a liaison between the weathered laborers and the fancy suits inside an air-conditioned office, they operate on a different mental level than the office team could ever comprehend. A good warehouse manager is completely indispensable, and as any good businessman knows, that's not a relationship that you ever mess with. 

    After 4 years of asking for a reasonable raise from his boss, this irreplaceable worker knew his skills were worth far more than his salary reflected, so he put in his resignation. When his transition assistance was denied by his arrogant boss, all he had to do was sit back and watch the company take a turn for the worse, because nobody knew how to run that warehouse as he did… Nobody. 

  • My old boss refused to give me a raise, so I quit. It ended up costing him over $400,000.
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  • For about 4 years, I was the jack-of-all-trades at a small distribution company. I was the person who did almost everything: I managed inventory, organized logistics,
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  • and dealt with all of our suppliers. My boss was the classic 'we're a family here' type, who leased a new Porsche every 18 months while paying me peanuts.
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  • I tried to ask for a raise a few times, but every time he would come up with some excuse. In the end, I got fed up and submitted my resignation with three weeks' notice. He practically laughed; it was clear he thought I would come back begging.
    via davidsa691
  • The weirdest part is, I was the only person who truly understood how all the internal software and processes were interconnected. I told him I had no problem spending my last
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  • few weeks at work creating documentation or training my replacement. He simply brushed me off and told me they would manage. Spoiler: they couldn't manage.
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  • Warehouse employee walking through an empty shop.
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  • About six weeks after I left, I heard from a few old colleagues that the company lost its most profitable client because no one could figure out the logistics.
    via davidsa691
  • Another major client left them due to constant order mix-ups. My old boss had to hire four people to do my job (and their four salaries combined were much more than the salary I had requested), and apparently, things are still a mess over there.
    via davidsa691
  • He could have simply agreed to the $20k raise I asked for. Instead, he lost about $400,000 in lost revenue and recruitment costs.
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  • It's so strange how some people would rather lose a fortune than pay someone what they're worth.
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  • Old TownUli It boggles my mind. On a smaller scale, I experienced this as a chef and kitchen manager a lot in my early career. Boss didn't want to pay 6 cooks well, so he hired a bunch of teenagers for peanuts, but their collected wages could have totally covered the raises for those cooks that knew what they were doing. And of course, the place was a disaster with a bunch of kids at the helm. I remember one night specifically at this one place we had a kitchen crew of like 10 people, 4 of us we
    via Old TownUli
  • loft_bleary6v I wish these happened more often
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  • ProfessionalBread176 This is endemic in the industry. Many companies spend millions trying to attract NEW talent when what they really need, is to remind their current staff how valuable they are to them
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  • ProfessionalBread176 This is endemic in the industry. Many companies spend millions trying to attract NEW talent when what they really need, is to remind their current staff how valuable they are to them
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  • Goldnugget2 Call his ass and rub his nose in it.
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