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Understand that your boss doesn’t have to explain everything to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s say that you believe that you are doing stellar work. Let’s further assume that the work you are doing is both something objectively difficult – \u00a03-D modeling, software development, teaching probability theory\u00a0– and that you believe to be important.<\/p>\n You are doing a great job and are highly skilled but they are not paying you the salary you believe you deserve<\/p>\n As I see it, there are four\u00a0possibilities.<\/p>\n Let’s consider possibility number one. If that is the case and everything you assume about your performance is true, then the organization should be trying to make it up to you in other ways. I once worked for a non-profit where my boss couldn’t offer me a raise but cut my hours 25% and gave me the same pay. They might give you flexible hours, a nice office, a travel budget, an impressive-sounding title. None of those things are the same as cash but they at least show the organization is making an effort.<\/p>\n Let’s assume that they do none of that and\u00a0you are treated like a peon. They even make you wear that Hotdog on a Stick uniform\u00a0even though you don’t work at Hotdog on a Stick. There remain the last three possibilities.<\/p>\n Why would your boss want you to quit? In my experience, the two most common reasons are:<\/p>\n There are\u00a0things your boss may not tell you for very good reasons, say, \u00a0non-disclosure agreements.<\/p>\n It is possible that your work is not really all that important. <\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, you have done a fabulous job creating the company website. However, the company is in merger negotiations\u00a0after which the website will be taken down and all of the products listed under Acme Giant Corporation, Inc. You may be fabulous at teaching probability theory but the\u00a0university is discontinuing its Statistics major due to lack of students enrolling in Northern Alaska On a Mountaintop University.<\/p>\n They also may not be telling you that they are hoping you will quit to avoid the unpleasantness of having to fire you.<\/p>\n Why on earth would anyone ever want to fire you, other than that your work isn’t as important as you think?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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