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The Truth Your Boss is Afraid to Tell You by "BOSS Influencer" Yvette Gavin

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A boss once told me, “Yvette, life is not fair.” This was the immediate reply from my boss in 1990 when I expressed my dismay with an average merit increase and another year of being overlooked for directorship. After pleading my case of why I felt my work performance merited more money and a title change, I ended with ‘It isn’t fair,’ and my boss agreed. Her agreement led me to tears. Why? Because I felt I had been mistreated, undervalued, and taken for granted and her comment confirmed it. Even worst, she made no excuse or apology for it. Instead, three weeks later I got a significant merit increase and later a promotion. This victorious win, I wouldn’t realize until years later, wasn’t a win at all. It’s true that I got the money and the new position, but I failed to understand or even ask why I wasn’t initially promoted. Honest feedback would have served me better than a "life is not fair." Unfortunately, years later at a different company I found myself in the same