CEO calls employees 'a family' in a meeting, refuses to give top-performing member of the family a $1.50 raise the same day: 'I'm currently doing the workload of 2 people.'

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    A greedy CEO, who tells his employees they're his "family" to their face, but refuses to pay them what they deserve.

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  • My boss called us a "family" during the meeting, then denied my $1.50 raise request.

    I am so sick of this corporate gaslighting. Today we had one of those all- hands meetings where our CEO spent like 20 mins talking about how we're a "family" and how our "shared sacrifice" is what keeps the company afloat. He literally looked like he was gonna cry talking about our "culture of togetherness."

  • Then, an hour later, I had my annual review. I've exceeded every single KPI for the last year, havent taken a single sick day, and I'm currently doing the workload of two people since my teammate quit in Jan and they never replaced them.

  • A man sitting at a desk

    A hardworking employee does the work of two people after his coworker quit.

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  • I asked for a measly $1.50/hour cost-of-living adjustment. Just to keep up with rent, honestly. The response? "It's just not in the budget right now, but we really value your dedication."

  • Lol. Its funny how the "family" vibe disappears the second money starts flowing toward thethe workers. Im not a family member, I'm just a line item on a spreadsheet theyre trying to keep as low as possible.

  • Updating my resume tonight. I guess I'm "divorcing" this family. Good luck finding someone else to do two jobs for the price of one.

  • Agent-c1983 >>The response? "It's just not in the budget right now, but we really value your dedication." Indeed, they valued it at zero.

  • who_you_are So, if you are family they will be willing to loan you $50k without expecting you to give it back right? Right?

  • Soffia Nov OP Right? Funny how the 'family' rules only apply when they want me to work overtime for free...

  • Toddw1968 Start acting your wage, you're now burned out from doing the workload of two people. You can't work any more overtime since you are now looking for a PT job for extra money in your free time just to keep afloat. Unless something breaks/fails they will never hire more people or give raises. Let things break and fail. But do your core job and only that.

  • BananaJelloXlii "Family" is a red flag. "We don't pay our kids, so we are not paying you"

  • Diverse group of colleagues celebrating success in office

    A group of coworkers who consider themselves to be each other's "family," despite the fact that they would stop talking if one of them left the company.

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  • jeffmc81 Everything that isn't bolted down. Toilet paper pens note pads take whatever you want. They'll never even notice. Give yourself that raise

  • Defiant-Scholar-793 I have quit on the spot for things like this. For real, I think a big problem with work culture is that we sit here and take it like a "professional" while our bosses ignores realistic living wages.

  • A 1.50 over a year of 40 hours a week is $2880 a year. 60 dollars a week, 240 dollars in a month. They said no to giving you an additional $240 dollars per month. At the end of the day, as far as employee retention goes, that is bad bad math. I don't work for people who only see the forest for the trees.

  • That-Currency-1039 • 14h ago That always got me a $1 is an extra $40 a week. The worse worker is gonna cause you more then that.

  • dataless01 When management tells employees this they want you to imagine they think of you as a spouse. They don't, they think of you as a child, and your wages are your allowance, and if you talk back you go to bed hungry

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