A few years back, I was working at my first job out of college. I took the job at a pay much lower than I wanted because I wanted an opportunity in the pharmaceutical field and because the boss promised a pay increase once the company finished their market value assessment to align their pay with what other companies were paying. After 12 months of working tons of overtime, and adjusting my schedule to work 1st shift one week and 3rd shift the next to help out where needed, the market assessment was finally done. The dept director set up meetings with everyone and most people who went in before me came out quite happy with their new salary. My turn came and I walked in, the director handed me a brochure about how the assessment was done and asked me "Do you have one of these?" I replied that I had already received one to which he said, "Have you memorized it yet?" Puzzled by this, I said "no, why would I do that?" and he proceeded to tell me "Well, you might as well because that's all I have for you!" and gave me some BS story about since I hired in halfway through the prior fiscal year I didn't qualify for the market assessment increase, had I been there the full fiscal year or hired in anytime during the current one I would qualify, but since I hadn't the most I could expect was a 3 to 4 percent raise once I hit my two year anniversary!! I was so pissed my only response was to tell him I quit and storm out of his office. It turns out it was the best thing I could have done, the company recently went under and I am now at a job that I love and my new boss actually respects me.
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