The Real Reason A Pay Rise Wasn't in the Budget | Ted Rivers | NewsBreak

I was packing up my desk on my final day at work when my colleague entered the room looking a little deflated. "What's happened?" I queried. She had just asked for a pay rise and it had been refused on the grounds that they don't have it in the budget. Two days prior our CEO sent an email out bragging about recent sales numbers?—?we were more profitable than ever.