Corinne, EC3, Financial services

My manager promised me a pay rise in our one-to-one. He was so specific. He gave me a figure and said it would come through in the next review cycle. I was so pleased I told my partner that evening. When the review came, nothing had changed, and when I brought it up he looked genuinely puzzled and said he had no memory of that conversation. He didn't say he'd changed his mind, he said it had never happened. I sat there trying to hold onto what I knew was real, running the conversation back in my head, wondering if somehow I had imagined the whole thing. I hadn't. But the self-doubt that followed that moment took months to shake.

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