Post #2089664

Wow, after reading your story, my ragequit is peanuts in comparison. I almost don't feel like posting it! Normally I'm a lot more humble than this, but you're all strangers on the Internet, so you'll just have to take my word for it, but... I had performed extremely well at my software development job. "Exceeds expectations" kind of performance review. I had led the architecture of several large efforts, and consistently delivered features. Promotion time comes around, and I get a 3% raise. Eh, whatever. At least it meets inflation. I find out a bit later that one of my coworkers (quite talented in her own right, don't get me wrong) got a title increase and a much more meaningful salary bump. So I talk to my manager about why she was promoted and I wasn't. We both had similar performance reviews, had led similar projects, and so on. I was prepared to accept it if there was a good reason. There wasn't. There was only budget room for one promotion, and she had been hired at a more senior position than me, though I had been promoted to match soon after I started. That's it. No logical reason other than seniority. I was butthurt, and started looking for a new job right away. Ended up snagging a great gig in a few weeks. I keep in touch with my old co-workers quite regularly, and I guess some activist investor forced through policy changes and gutted the satellite office I worked at. I guess I dodged a bullet there.