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    Employee resigns after finding better job with a 20% raise, now his boss wants to renegotiate his salary: 'Why are you surprised that I found a place willing to pay me what I'm worth?'

    This boss made it seem like the company didn't have the money to give his employee a well-deserved raise… that is, until the employee had more leverage.

    This author knew that he was doing the work of multiple employees and was entitled to a fairer annual salary. This became all the more clear to him when he discovered that despite his weekly tasks and responsibilities, it turned out that he was lowest paid employee in his entire department. Perhaps his boss thought he could get away with this amoral arrangement because the author was straight out of college when he was first hired.

    Once again, here is another tale of an employer who vastly underestimated the intelligence of younger, so-called "inexperienced" workers. It's as if these bosses don't realize that in the age of the internet, employees can easily do research to figure out whether or not they are being underpaid compared to what other salaries look for similar positions elsewhere. 

    Naturally, this author did that research and ended up finding a far better opportunity. It would be the same amount of work, only this time, he would be earning at 20% raise. In his eyes, he was still willing to do the equivalent work of two people at this much higher rate. Your mileage may vary depending on your work preferences and financial situation. Regardless, the employee was ecstatic to take the job and couldn't wait to confront his manager about this new offer.

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