If You Stop Getting Paid More, Leave.

On the first day of one of my jobs, the GM said this to me as we walked to get a drink.
It’s hard to approach this story without sounding like an “entitled millenial”, but here goes:
I was relatively green at the time, and at the time I had no idea how raises or promotions worked. This was my second serious job after university and when you’re at that point, you’re still…