<prompt> Human: Cross posting from rRelationshipsI have been employed by my company for 3 years and had my annual review. I asked for substantial raise to 60,000 and had documentation to back up it up. My boss agreed and gave me 2 options: 65,000 with no assistance for grad school 55,000 with the company assisting with grad school my degree would be directly related to my companys operationsWe agreed this sounds good and that I would get back to my boss with my decision. My boss and I then took a week long business trip and I finally got around to speaking to my boss about my decision about 10 days from my annual review. Me: Boss, before I forget, Ill take the 65,000. Boss: deer in headlights look WHAAAT...we didnt agree to that! Me: Yes we did. Boss: You asked for 60,000! Thats even more! Me: But Boss...you countered with 65,000. You gave me 2 options. Either 65,000 with no assistance for grad school or 55,000 with assistance. Boss: looks sheepish I only had authorization to give you 50,000 from the partners...We can get you up to these amount but we need to work to get there. The partners cannot afford this at this time. We can get you 55,000...its still over a 30 increase...this is compromise, compromise means no one is happy...The conversation then derailed from there. Im furious...I was literally shaking from anger and disappointment. That a verbal offered only to be snatched away. This is especially an important year for me...trying to pay for grad school plus my wedding is 8 months away. On a very real level though, I feel like my work is under appreciated. That Im not worth 65,000. That is in some ways a worse feeling and the slow understanding I should just be looking for a new job. --- tl;dr: Boss gave me a promotion and offered me 65,000. Ten days later, the offer was rescinded and I was offered 55,000 instead. Im furious.  <response>: Everything in writing or it didnt happen. Sorry! Unless you can find other workers who also had the same exact thing happen to them, and can proove that it happened, in a class action law suit, in which youll recover a little bit each, while the lawyers will get a lovely huge percentage of everybodys recovered wages and damages. 