Owen Gregorian

And that's just how they did it.

And but the problem was the market was going faster than that.

Like it might have been going up 15 or 20 percent a year.

And they didn't do the they didn't do.

The internal raises as quickly.

And so I eventually realized, hey, I'm not making what I should be making here.

And I started calling back headhunters that were leaving voicemails for me.

And I got an offer from another company just like mine.

And they said they'd give me a 40% raise just to come over.

So I did that.

um but i even then i was like well i want to finish off my project and i offered that to my old company and they initially said oh yeah that's great thank you so much for doing that because it'll take us a while to find somebody to fill your slot and then they panicked every day the time frame got shorter uh until they just told me to pack my stuff i think it was maybe three days later they just said pack your stuff you're done

So I thought that was kind of unprofessional, but that's their end of it.

They were looking out for their interests and I was looking out for mine.

And so I kind of learned my lesson of this reframe through that process that I have to look out for my own interests and not the company.

And that next company I was at for probably eight years, it was a long time.

But in the end, what happened was they did a merger and all the leadership that was over my group, all my bosses went away.

I got new bosses.

And I was a very top performer at the company.

They had a very structured review process and evaluation process.

And I was always ranked in the top 10% every year for five years in a row.