Our firm just had its most profitable year on record, and my discretionary bonus was literally a $50 Starbucks gift card and a firm-branded hoodie. Meanwhile, the associates are talking about their five-figure payouts in the hallway like it’s nothing. I know I’m not an attorney, but I’m the one who stayed until 9:00 PM every night for that three-week trial. How do you handle the resentment?

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Not will get better unless you voice your disappointment. They need to know because they do need you to continue doing the job that makes the attorneys jobs easier. Ask for the bonus, ask for the raise, if you don’t ask they will not know and once you hear their answer you will know for sure what the future looks like.

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So many firms, don’t see us as valuable. But it’s insane because let’s face it. None of these successes would happen without the work we do. They just see us as disposable and unimportant.

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For starters, I would never wear the hoodie and would find a way to use the Bux card even though I HATE the Bux (coffee for kids IMO) but love coffee. Being underappreciated and underpaid is the nature of the job unfortunately. You definitely deserve better. And I don't understand how in these posts people say they talk about compensation right out in the open at work. I don't know how they do that because you know one party is going to be upset regardless.

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