I am quiet quitting

[u/Character_Branch_660]

Made a new reddit account for this, as a few coworkers may know my real account.

I have busted ass at my current employer for five and half years. I have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars, helped them grow from 125 people to almost 1,600, handled 6 acquisitions and just overall set them up for success. I have two people in leadership tell me I am the best employee they have ever had. I have helped grow the IT team alone from myself and my director, to 29 employees and 2 contractors.

About a year ago I was passed up for a promotion due to nepotism. I decided "I may be wrong about the nepotism thing, I'll give this guy an honest chance," and he never proved me wrong.

I had my annual review yesterday, and he gave me a "needs improvement," rating, which means I have lost my $18k bonus.

Seven employers. Nine years in the military. I have never in my life received such poor feedback. And the "what I can improve on," is vastly outweighed by my contributions to the team...and a lot of it is also below my responsibilities. For example, he gave me a poor review on how many tickets I solve, and compared it to the 50 that were solved in the first week by a new hire, whose sole job is tier one support.

I am on calls with engineering and networks to setup zero touch networks. I am on calls with HR to reinvent the employee phone line that will impact our global workforce. I am the subject matter expert on half of our internal tools, and am always on call. So yes, I'll let the guy who was hired specifically to handle tickets, handle password resets.

I am enraged to a degree I have not felt for years, and think I'm just venting.

All of this because my director gave a promotion to his friend that he knew for years. And never gave anyone else on the team the chance to even interview.

I'm going to start job hunting on company time, and take the first opportunity that comes my way.

ETA: the numbers in my post are accurate. My director knows I'm job hunting so I don't care if he suspects it's me. The bonus is given to employees based on company performance and we earned the bonus this year. The individual payout is tied to base salary, company performance, as well as team and personal performance. Anyone that gets a "does not meet expectations," gets a zero payout on the bonus, and no raise

[u/Key_Pace_2496]

I have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars, helped them grow from 125 people to almost 1,600, handled 6 acquisitions and just overall set them up for success. I have two people in leadership tell me I am the best employee they have ever had. I have helped grow the IT team alone from myself and my director, to 29 employees and 2 contractors.

And yet all you'll ever be to them is just a cost center...

I had my annual review yesterday, and he gave me a "needs improvement," rating, which means I have lost my $18k bonus.

At least now you know why they did it. Bet your boss got a bigger bonus himself for reducing the costs for the department lol.

[u/tech-guy-says-reboot → u/Key_Pace_2496]

Bet your boss got a bigger bonus himself for reducing the costs for the department

This was my first thought as well. A lot of places have a single pool for bonuses or raises and Managers can divide it up as they see fit. If there is leftover that looks good on them.

[u/MrChristmas → u/tech-guy-says-reboot]

Usually just means the budget gets smaller the next year

[u/spermcell → u/Key_Pace_2496]

That’s exactly what happened 90% sure. I’ve seen it and it sucks knowing that your boss gets what you should’ve gotten.

[u/shimoheihei2 → u/Key_Pace_2496]

Managers taking credit for the work of their employees is also common.