[Lindsey]

I finished off my work day by getting shafted by the new manager for raises and bonuses. No bonus for the first year since I started working there, and a terrible excuse for a raise. Obviously they don't appreciate all the overtimeI have put in over the last year, all the nights I spent in the office, and all of my free time I've given up. I feel like Clark Griswold from National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. I was counting on a bonus for our trip to Europe. I agreed to go 3 months early and told my manager the reason it would be hard is because we need to save more money. I am so upset and too emotional because I've been crying since I got in my car after work. You know who got a better raise than me? The receptionist who just came back after Christmas from maternity leave. I thought I proved myself over the last year.

I am starting to feel very expendable now that they have outsourced this job to actual Engineers from the states who probably only make as much as I do from the company but can do way more work and get charged out for way more money.

I am going to write the manager an email this weekend after I calm down (if I calm down) and state my points (because I will probably just cry in person) and ask if we can please have a meeting about it next week. It just feels like I've been kicked in the stomach. I've spent 4 years at this company and I have never felt as underappreciated or done as much work as I have in the past year. I miss our old manager.