asked for a raise (im the only employee at a small cosmetics company. i handle the manufacturing, labeling, packing, and shipping, as well as keeping up inventory and keeping the place in order. basically everything) and my boss responds by trying to gaslight me, pulling this “we’re a small business 🥺” bullshit
he just bought a 60,000 dollar car and is taking his second vacation of the year next week
he keeps trying to hold “a week of personal time” i had to go on strike by myself to earn, “paid winter break” etc over my head. all shit that the government forces you to give your employees in every other country on the planet. america is a shit hole with no workers rights and it allows the parasitic small business tyrant class feel like they’re doing something good by offering the bare minimum. literally “i treat my slaves nicely” shit
sorry yall just wanted to rant. fuck america and work under capitalism
If you're essentially running the warehouse, there should be lots of data you can get your hands on, about how much is getting shipped out (which you can then use to compute the conpany's gross revenue).
Learn everything you can, while you have the opening to: the better picture you have of the company and its trade secrets, the more leverage you have in negotiating, and the easier it ends up being to duplicate their business if you want to go for that option.