August 7, 2026 at 5:20 am
“No Raise, Just More Work”: Employee Outraged After Speed and Quality Backfire Spectacularly
Being a good boss entails a lot more than just extracting work out of your employees.
Being a good boss entails a lot more than just extracting work out of your employees.
Petty is a choice, and this boss made it.
Some jobs just aren’t worth the paycheck.
She needs to be very careful with what she does next.
Finding a way to get your manager to do what you want doesn’t have to be impossible.
I see what you’re trying to do here…
This is not who I am.
Turns out, not everyone is cut out to be the boss.
After just a couple of weeks, the manager gained a newfound appreciation for how those escalations were being handled.
This was very low stakes, but it worked to mildly annoy some people, which, sometimes, is all one needs.
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