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Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

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I think every except this part paints one picture: > I am getting cold shoulder treatment from everyone else on team But the above paints another. Is there some reason the whole team would change in unison towards you that is related to your manager?

They all know OP is being "managed out" i.e. constructive dismissal?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

#42
post #9

I’m blown away by some of the other comments here. There’s no value in having a victim mentality. Have you openly spoken to your manager about your concerns? How it doesn’t feel fair? How you feel you’re being treated? There’s a chance they have no idea. Maybe they’re not that experienced and are just working things out themselves. Or if they seem like the wrong person, is there someone above them you can voice your…

> I did also come to them with a job offer from another company that had a larger dollar amount associated to it. As far as I know, this negotation strategy is orders of magnitude more effective than voicing feelings about being treated unfairly. Unless OP comes with better competing offer, there is likely nothing that can be changed in his situation.

I did this once got the raise etc. The director at the time voiced the opinion that in general people leave anyway in a year or 2 time. I did leave in 1.5 years .

Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

#43

New job time. >My salary has been the same from the day I joined in 2019. Have you not pushed for one at all? If you don't even get an inflationary raise, you shouldn't stay for one year, let alone three.

Yeah, just as valid to think of it as "I've taken a real pay cut three or four years in a row".

Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

#44

New job time. >My salary has been the same from the day I joined in 2019. Have you not pushed for one at all? If you don't even get an inflationary raise, you shouldn't stay for one year, let alone three.

Right ... a zero percent raise, especially in an inflationary environment, means you have been getting a pay cut for each of the past 3 years.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

#45
You're about to be let go. It's not fair, but I bet it's going to happen anyway. Start looking.

> Last year when performance review meeting happened just like every other year, I was told that you are the best engineer in the whole organization. For these years, I have not got a single dollar raise or promotion.

Don't stay at a place that isn't interested in keeping your pay in line with inflation. Unless you can reduce your work output to match. Effectively, this was a reduction in salary.

> I am a nice person

Was this happening: Did you make an "invisible deal" where you do X and magically expect Y to happen without an explicit agreement? It can work sometimes, but it depends on people other than you to be nice, and if you haven't empirically confirmed that, then you'll probably just be taken advantage of.

It sounds like you did confirm that, but then things changed. That's not your fault, but it does happen.

> I put an extraordinary amount of work effort in the company for 3 years. I

Don't work for free anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

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post #9

I’m blown away by some of the other comments here. There’s no value in having a victim mentality. Have you openly spoken to your manager about your concerns? How it doesn’t feel fair? How you feel you’re being treated? There’s a chance they have no idea. Maybe they’re not that experienced and are just working things out themselves. Or if they seem like the wrong person, is there someone above them you can voice your…

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Re: Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

#49
post #9

I’m blown away by some of the other comments here. There’s no value in having a victim mentality. Have you openly spoken to your manager about your concerns? How it doesn’t feel fair? How you feel you’re being treated? There’s a chance they have no idea. Maybe they’re not that experienced and are just working things out themselves. Or if they seem like the wrong person, is there someone above them you can voice your…

Terrible advise. They obviously don't value him anymore.

Just find another job and give notice ASAP.

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