This is why I'm trying to negotiate a $5k raise.

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Let's see, the company I worked for since 2012 laid off my manager, the person who introduced me to the job, and I had to step up to take over some of her works.  She did not handle it well.  Then in 2020, the owner sold the company to a bigger firm.  I was offered $10k bonus to stay on for 2 additional years, which I took.

After the acquisition, I had a few months of nice and easy work where I was kept busy for only a couple of hours a day because they took all my responsibilities away.  Sadly that didn't last long.  The new director found out I could handle whatever she threw at me and decided to bombarded me with tons of work. 

After a less than satisfactory promotion and salary increase, I asked for a market adjustment and got an additional $15k salary increase.  Then in 2023, I was promoted to manager, although with only a small 3k promotion raise on top of my merit increase because I wasn't expected to take on additional responsibilities.  Guess what happened......yup I ended up with a lot of more responsibility than expected. 

The same year my former manager called me up and asked me to recommend her for a position at my company, which I did, and while she didn't get the job she applied for, she got another job we created just for her. Unfortunately, she didn't get along well with the director, so the director pushed her to me and now she's my direct report.  Oh boy was that a rough transition.  Because of this, I couldn't even ask for a salary increase to align with my additional work load.

Now that the director has moved on to greener pasture, I decided to bring up my performance from last year and asked for an additional $5k on top of the annual merit increase.  New director told me they'll take care of me before the end of this month.  New director's boss also called to inform me that he's trying to push it through before first quarter. Approval from C-suite is needed and company only grew by 2% last year.  So let's see how that will pan out.  Also have around 7k to 8k in annual bonus coming this Friday.