'Everyone is replaceable': Boss refuses to give hardworking employee a raise, claiming he can find someone else to do the job if needed, employee quits and proves boss wrong

It always boggles our minds that instead of giving hardworking employees a raise, some bosses would rather lose employees and then end up paying much more to hire someone else. Why is giving a pay raise to someone who truly deserves it considered such a difficult task?

Take the employee in the story below as an example. They decided to ask for a raise after three years of working as an assistant manager at a retail chain. For some reason, the boss refuses, claiming that it will only take him a week to find someone else who can do the job. "If you don't like the pay, leave; everyone is replaceable".

We will see about that, bossman.

Two months later, the employee finds a better job and quits, giving their boss the opportunity to prove himself right. You can already guess what happened next…

Instead of being proved right, the boss is proven to be very, very wrong when three weeks after the employee left, the store is a mess. Turns out, someone is indeed replaceable, but it's not this employee.
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