Employer Didn’t Want To Discuss Pay Raise With Essential Employee, So They Simply Didn’t Show Up At Work, Leaving Their Bosses In Panic

Good employees want to feel appreciated, and one of the best ways for employers to show their appreciation is through pay raises. Of course, not everything is about money, but we use it to pay bills and necessities, so it is kind of important.

It can be uncomfortable to ask for a wage raise, but there are moments when you just feel like you deserve it. Although many businesses will go to great lengths to keep their best employees motivated, productive, and happy, making a wage rise a no-brainer, others will choose to neglect their employees' demands outright.

And then they'll be sorry. This is what happened when one Redditor asked for a raise since "no one else can do the work I do due to excessive turnover."

"If I want more money, I'll have to work more hours," the employer claimed. "Today, I didn't go in, and now they're phoning me in a panic because they can't run effectively without me there," the Redditor says.

We've shared this interesting story here because it shows that employees are important to companies and that they have leverage – they shouldn't stay at a company that doesn't appreciate them.

Let's take a look:

Important employee leaves a company because managers refuse to give them a deserved pay raise.

Andrea Piacquadio (not the actual photo)

OP shared their story. The managers didn't appreciate their contribution and wouldn't even discuss a pay raise.

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So OP simply didn't show up at work the next day, leaving the managers in a panic.

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The answer they got was pretty straightforward.

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They kept calling.

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OP kept records of the conversations.

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OP is pretty close to getting a new job.

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OP feels bad for their former coworkers.

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They posted an update, saying they got a new job.

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OP was negotiating for over a month.

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They seem nice.

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And OP starts soon.

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Redditors are behind OP 100%.

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Yes, managers do some sort of weird math where everything is relative. 2+2 isn't the same when they lose money...

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Why would OP care because they are now in trouble? They should've thought of it sooner.

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Just keep swinging, just keep swinging...

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Many companies are just one employee away from collapsing. This is so true...

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This Redditor made a good point:

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Exactly!

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Did OP have any vacation while working there? Hard to believe, since they can’t function without them.

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This is a story as old as time. Managers and business owners complain everywhere that no one wants to work and that they can’t find workers while offering minimum wage, no vacation, and terrible working conditions.

The problem is that they are complaining to their peers—business owners. And they can all sit around complaining all day, crying over their bad luck.

If they took even a second to actually talk to their employees, they would get an idea of what to do. Or do they know but simply don’t care?

Of course, some companies are already used to working like revolving doors, with extremely high employee turnover. But we can’t understand why they prefer to constantly train new workers instead of keeping the old ones.