apply for the job, opefully you have all the skills they are looking for

#53. I'm guessing not. If they were that great, they would've gotten the raise over them hiring someone else for more money.

Maybe you were bugging them for a raise too much, when you weren't doing the job properly, OP.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure she could catch on with Wendy's or Jack-in-the-Box.

Yeah i know! You should have taken what you got in this economy OP. It doesn't sound like you really deserve the raise anyway, and the firm probably wasn't offering many raises (since inflation is really low) and only to employees that completely deserve them.

I like this plan. Haha.

Not necessarily true.. Sometimes the boss's hands are tied and he can't fire a certain employee, in some cases even if the employee is terrible. I've heard - no offense to anyone - minorities are hard to fire.

22 - totally agree - and I'm not just a boss but an employer - firing people is really hard, 90% of the time you keep them on until they leave. If it was readvertised at a much lower salary I'd say the boss is a jerk and a wimp, but at the same or higher salary, he's certainly just trying to get his work done. Hiring and training someone new is a huge hassle, whatever experience they have elsewhere is never what they need in your own company, so there's no way he'd let her go if she was anywhere near doing what he wanted her to do. Fact that the boss was already advertising for the replacement shows the work needs to be done - and the higher salary shows the budget was there all along, if the OP had done what was required she'd have got more salary, more reponsibility, etc etc