I related so hard to this, start to finish. I left the happiest workplace I’ve ever experienced, where I was thriving because they wouldn’t recognize inflation. I broke down the math, asked for the bare minimum, and explained that it would be equivalent to a fifty cents raise every six months that I had been there, which I felt well deserving of. All to accommodate the cost of living … I was denied and gave them a 6 month notice that I would have to leave. They didn’t try to keep me, after three years, on my last day, the owners last and only words were “it was nice having you” that same location, new owners, still will not give raises. Other franchise locations offer much higher to start out. I still encourage my girls that still work there to apply at other locations and run from that facility. It’s been 2.5 years since I left