I found out I was being replaced on a Tuesday morning—the kind of day that starts ordinary but ends up rearranging your entire sense of worth. My boss called me into his office, fake sympathy plastered across his face, and told me they were “moving in a different direction.” Before I could even absorb it, he added that I’d be training the new hire who would take over my role. No warning. No apology. No severance discussion. Just expectation.
I agreed, because shock has a way of making you compliant before the anger shows up.
A day later, curiosity got the better of me. I checked the internal system for her job posting, the one I was supposedly “no longer a fit” for. What I saw froze me in place: they were offering her $30,000 more than what I was making.
Same title. Same duties. Same everything—except the salary gap big enough to choke on.
When I confronted HR, they didn’t blink.
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