Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

If your workplace has proven to you that new hires are paid better than long-term employees, what's stopping you from becoming a better-paid new hire at another company?The math is quite simple with this one. If your company refuses to give you a raise, even after years of your hard work and loyalty, but would happily hire a new employee who gets more money than you do, then the only real course of action you have left is to find a new job. It's funny how companies have no issue paying more money to new hires, but refuse decent raises to retain employees. When the only option someone has to move up in their career is by finding another job, no company will manage to hold on to employees for longer than a year or two.It's a weird cycle, one that is hard to grasp when you realize how easy it is to break it. As soon as companies release the stronghold they have on promotions and raises, they wouldn't have to keep hiring new people to replace the ones that left because they felt underappreciated. Everybody wins in this scenario, and less money is being wasted.Yet, we all keep going in circles instead, which is exactly the case for this employee. Even after being praised for their good…

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