If your company celebrates good profits, but doesn’t volunteer raises that reflect that, you shouldn’t have to beg if you were part of the machine that made that profit, that should tell you all you need to know.

The fact that just doesn’t happen unless you’re in the strangest of American Workplaces demonstrates where you sit in their universe. A disposable liability. The cost of doing business. You make them multiple times more money than they pay you, and they resent and nickel and dime even what little they have to remit back to you for you to not just walk out solely so the assholes at the top can live larger than they need to. In a sad, sociopathic society where working means life and not working means being tossed into an alley to die, that means your life means absolutely nothing to them, just in case the suicide nets outside the factories where they hire third world slaves to save a dollar didn’t clue you in.