Anonymous wrote:Well, now you know how much your employer values you - it sounds like they will keep you around but are not one of their valued employees and probably aren't going to advance.

Keep cashing those paychecks and look elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound exhausting to manage so maybe it was really due to your performance.

+1 Easy to read between the lines

Anonymous wrote:You sound exhausting to manage so maybe it was really due to your performance.

Anonymous wrote:Well, now you know how much your employer values you - it sounds like they will keep you around but are not one of their valued employees and probably aren't going to advance.

Keep cashing those paychecks and look elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:Your boss has told you this wasn’t performance related, and that it was about equalizing shares among employees (which IS a real thing that companies do especially smaller, private ones for all around fairness and also because it is often easier for the company to give grants than to equalize salary).

You have acknowledged that the other person who did not receive a grant is also a strong performer. And you are a strong performer.

You have also acknowledged that you are otherwise happy with your comp.

So why would you take this so personally, and actually want to quit over it? It sounds like your supervisor could have done a better job explaining the circumstances to you, although just reading your explanation of it, I still understood it. I’m honestly curious of your age/seniority level?

You also said that the other employee who did not receive a grant recently was promoted. Do you feel that you should have been promoted as well, and are upset about that? That’s a legit concern, if the case, and if so, you need to have a conversation with your supervisor about that, understand why you weren’t promoted, and what is the path to your promotion.

Anonymous wrote:I'm on a team with 10 people. I recently discovered by accident that eight of them got stock bonuses earlier this year of various amounts - two of us (including me) got nothing. I called my boss and asked if this was performance related and he said no it wasn't performance related, but only offered some vague explanation that it was about trying to give the other people more shares to make things more equal. I do have a fair number of shares from previous grants - but I have been working hard just like everybody on the team in the past year - So being excluded from this bonus really hurts. We work at a small private company so there's not a tight limit on stock options/RSUs like at big public companies.

How can I move forward from this? It's been a week and I'm still extremely upset at my boss who did this. It feels extremely personal to be in the bottom 20% even though he said it wasn't performance related. I know the other person who got a zero is a high-performer, but she was recently promoted and I haven't been. Even if I had gotten an award on the smaller side to his point that they are trying to "catch up" other employees that would've been something.

I feel like quitting but this is a rare WFH job with good base pay (I have no complains about my salary) and the flexibility is really valuable. So I don't want to cut off my nose despite my face. But I have lost all trust in and respect for my boss and the organization that I guess just doesn't value me.

Anonymous wrote:Well, now you know how much your employer values you - it sounds like they will keep you around but are not one of their valued employees and probably aren't going to advance.

Keep cashing those paychecks and look elsewhere.