Is there some kind of company playbook that we are all unaware of? Where the rules state, ‘Never give your employees a raise, especially if they are critical to your business success’? Beats me, to be honest. All I know is that so many bosses are clearly incompetent and not fit to make decisions that will effect the company’s revenue. Corporate always intervenes when it’s unnecessary, sticking their nose into everyone’s business, yet ironically are nowhere to be found when their help is actually required.
According to OP, ‘Back when PCs were the domain of the nerds’, he got hired by a company that rented out a hall, then filled it to the brim with vendors who sold everything from PCs to floppy disk holders. Remember those? Yeah, this was a while ago. OP’s job was to sell as much space as possible at these events, and then fly to wherever they were taking place, and manage them.
As the story goes, OP and his coworker tripled the number of vendors buying slots, which meant that attendance went way up. In other words, they were making the company big bucks. All they wanted in return was some compensation, in the form of a raise. They approached their boss and asked for an extra $100 a month.
They got a big fat ‘No’ as an answer, and luckily, they were smart enough to walk away from the company and look for a workplace where their efforts would be appreciated. The aftermath of their quitting resulted in the company losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Scroll down to read what happened. Then, you can check out this head mechanic who removed all the tools from his store as ‘punishment’ to his employees for eating 400 bags of chips in only 3 weeks.
