2022: No salary increase
2023: No salary increase
2024: No salary increase
2025: No salary increase
2026 :
Employee: Please accept my resignation.
Boss: You’re doing great. Why are you resigning?
Employee: I accepted an offer with a 95% base salary increase and guaranteed yearly salary cycles as long as I meet my performance goals set by my manager.
48 hours later...
Boss: We will match the 95%, please stay, we need your work!
Employee: Unfortunately, it’s too late. Friday is my last day.
Leaders of organizations need to understand their teams’ motivation every month. Every employee is motivated by different things in different periods. Take care of your good employees before it is too late
Functional depression is real. You work, joke around, you show kindness, take care of people around you. But mentally you're drowning in your own thoughts but still smiling and nobody knows it
This age hits hard.
Career pressure, daily responsibilities, big dreams, marriage talks, and aging parents, all at once. Just trying to survive and find meaning.