I feel sick about this but know I made the right decision.
My boss approached me last week after my employee review and informed me that I would be receiving a substantial raise. I was ecstatic and elated because I worked so hard last year and our profits reflected my time and hard work. My position holds equal rank to another employee at the company (we are both in top management) and for years we’ve made the same salary.
However, earlier this week she informed me that after her review she was not offered a raise. Working alongside her I have been witness to her working just as hard as me and being an asset to our company as well.
I felt terrible for her but recognized it was not my place to have an opinion as I am not her boss. However, this morning our boss approached me requesting a meeting in which he informed me that he was unable to offer her a raise because he offered what was left of the budget all to me.
He then proceeded to inform me that unless I split or gave up some of my raise – she would not get one. I split it equally with her and she was very grateful. I know I did the right thing but part of me wonders
Why I wasn’t more selfish in this decision since it wasn’t my responsibility, it was my boss.
Netizens’ comments
- I don’t see why your boss would put that on you, its ultimately not your decision. It sounds like this was a test if you both have been working hard. Makes no sense.
- Company should have made the choice and explained that you both earned it. How does it make sense to anyone that both people equally deserving of something, one gets ignored? I don’t like it one bit, I’m struggling to understand how this made sense to anyone.
- It’s pretty common for men to be paid more than women when they’re doing a job equally well. Not trying to start an argument or be bitter, just stating a very unfair and unfortunate fact.
- Your Boss is an idiot! He/She needs to be replaced, hope when your company does the 360 review, you are able to do something about it.