> It’s so strange, you’d think the cost of recruiting, hiring, and ramping up a new employee would be much more than just bringing your existing productive employee up to market rate, yet few employers seem willing to do this.
Not strange at all. The company is willing to sacrifice employees to send the message that people are replaceable and will be let go if they demand salary raises.
It's a way to keep salaries from growing.
> They looked at me as if I just escaped the lunatic asylum.
Good old gaslighting. You get the same look from managers even in high turnover company.
I think a lot of companies think of themselves as the better side of a tradeoff between QoL and compensation. "Sure, you could make more money elsewhere, good luck with that!"
Makes sense when you think about it from a business perspective. Some people like running lifestyle businesses. These businesses won't make anyone rich, but one can carve out an economic niche regardless. That niche is predicated on being willing to accept less comp than the broader market pays.
My last job was just such a compromise, and, I gotta tell you, if they had listened to me when architecting their new ecomm platform, I'd still be working there, not moved on for $20k more comp.
Corporate feudalisms are actually really nice when you're living in the castle, not working the fields.
Not strange at all. The company is willing to sacrifice employees to send the message that people are replaceable and will be let go if they demand salary raises.
It's a way to keep salaries from growing.
> They looked at me as if I just escaped the lunatic asylum.
Good old gaslighting. You get the same look from managers even in high turnover company.