TL;DR: I'm underpaid and underappreciated, even after a recent raise. Coworkers are promoted and awarded around me. So I found a job that pays 20k more, with double the benefits and I'm not looking back. I still shake with anger and nervousness just thinking about it.
I work in a biotech laboratory, but in the analytics department, so my coworkers and I use computers and excel all day. I was promoted to this position without a change in my pay, and I've known since taking the position that I was being underpaid by 15k-30k annually. The benefits are also bare-bones-mediocre at my company.
In December I was eligible for a raise, which I got, that was infuriatingly low. I was stunned and my whole attitude about the company and my role changed. Ever since joining the department, my manager has promised "growth opportunities" yet he continues to withhold critical information as a form of control. He knows that we work in a highly specialized field and we are all underpaid, so if any one of us were to gain enough competency in our jobs, we could easily jump ship. I've literally walked him through the steps I intended to take for a project and he said nothing, only for the algorithm to fail so he could come in to the rescue. Upper management also prevents our team from accessing study data which is critical in completing projects, and my manager set it up this way intentionally (I'm 99% sure). That, or my manager is a dope.
In performance reviews, I've asked multiple times for an honest criticism of my performance yet my manager always says I'm "crushing it". Everyone around me, two people my junior, have had new GPUs added to their PCs which allows them to work on more complicated and advanced projects. Last week I was told that the newest employee will be getting an upgraded GPU for his machine. I've had no such upgrades, meanwhile my manager is well aware that my machine was improperly built by IT and despite my emails to IT about the issues I've been having, he has taken no steps to address them.
Maybe I'm a bad employee and my manager doesn't know how to tell me, that's fair. But I'm confident that I do quality work and I have never once had an issue with project deadlines or their completion. I feel like I'm just being used to get the most remedial tasks done.
To top it all off, upper management is completely toxic and looks down at our team with utter contempt (our department generates the smallest revenue). I feel like crap after every interaction with them as they make no effort to hide their condescendence. A few in particular actively talk to me like they think I'm an idiot (maybe I am). Either way, it's no way to treat a subordinate and it really wears on my morale.
At my annual raise meeting with my manager, I was told that we would all be getting big raises, "as soon as we, as a team, can justify to the company owner that our department can generate sufficient revenue". That's fair, but client contracts, billing, business acquisition, etc is all above our pay grades, we just perform the technical work to get specific projects done. I've been busting my tail for over a year, working overtime to meet deadlines, and nothing has changed. Either my manager is wholly unqualified to run a functional department, or the company actually has zero interest in investing more money into the people of our department.
One day before my annual review and raise meeting, a recruiter reached out on LinkedIn with an open position identical to the work I already do. I brought this up to my manager during the raise "negotiation" and he was unphased. He said, "well you can't always believe the salaries that people post online for these positions". What a guy.
So two weeks later after following up with the recruiter, I interviewed and received an offer the very next day. 20k more in salary, triple the annual bonus, 3x as many PTO days, waaaay cheaper health insurance, HSA, FSA, tuition assistance, and in a major city whose rent is significantly cheaper than the college town I currently work in.
I'm still waiting on the background check to clear so I haven't been able to share all this with anyone except one trustworthy friend/coworker, so I just needed to put it all out here.
SO I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE LOOK ON MY MANAGER'S FACE WHEN I TELL HIM I'M LEAVING. He doesn't suspect a thing, I overheard in a meeting that he expects I won't be leaving anytime soon. Screw him, screw the company owner, and screw all the people who treat me like crap because I'm leaving baby!!!!! I'm nervous though since the new employer is dragging their feet with the background check and drug testing, but those are clean so it's only a matter of time. RANT OVER. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk
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