Cracks...

If you break a vase...
Then glue it back together...
The cracks will still be visible.


If you tell me that you agree that i am an asset. That i am the only one in the team who has multiple skills across all the programs and applications. That "my reputation proceeds me"...that good employees dont have to look for work, work looks for them and you think that i epitomise this adage.

If you tell me that I have received glowing reports from all of the PMs i have worked with. That from what you can see, i have represented the company in a brilliant light. That I am well regarded by our clients and that I have given the company a large dose of goodwill - the type of goodwill money cant buy but is developed by an employee's relationship with the client.

If you tell me that you think i will be successful...that i will reach the goal of being a Snr PM or Programme Mgr within 3 years - and that you believe i will do this with success...

Then why insult me by offering me less than someone who started just 3 months ago?

I'm not saying that this someone doesnt deserve what they were offered, but i should be offered at worse, the same as what you have offered them and preferrably more, as i deserve it. And you agreed that i deserved more.

But you offered me much less than what you had offered them.

All this does is indicate to me that you do not value me as i had thought you did, as you have tried to have me believe.

You are treating me as a liability. Not as an asset, as you proclaim.

One of the most horrible things you can do to an employee is make them feel under appreciated, under valued, and that they gave you their all for no reason but to get ripped off.

I know for a fact that you are lying to me.

I am really disappointed.

No matter what your counter offer is now, you can not erase the insult you have already inflicted. There is no way of making the cracks disappear.