Advice please

Up until Covid, I was working in Hotels. With Covid the hotels all closed and kind of forced me to think outside the box in order to make a living. I got a job in sales and discovered I was very good at it and enjoyed it. Last April, I decided that I had enough in my savings to make the down payment on my own home. The problem was, being single, I just didn't make enough money to afford a house, even with 4 times my income that first time buyers are allowed to borrow. I hit daft.ie and found the cheapest home in my area that was livable and figured up how much Money I would need to make per year to be able to get a mortgage for it. The next day, I walked into our CFO's office and asked for a raise. I had everything laid out for him, I was able to tell him how much I wanted, why I wanted that amount and why I deserved it. He looked me directly and the eyes and said "I value you, you've got your raise" I walked out filling like a million bucks of course and liked my job even more. No employer had ever told me that before, that they valued me.

The very next month, another sales job literally fell into my lap. One of my clients wanted to hire me and offered me an even larger sum of money, about 14,000 more per year than I had just gotten in my raise. I really didn't want the job, it would require me to move a good 4 hours away to a place where I knew no one but I didn't feel like I could turn down that money…it was just too good of an offer. I went to my manager with the news the next morning, not knowing what to expect. I deep down hoped my current employer would match the offer but part of me seriously doubted they would. They came back with a counter offer, they offered me 2,000 per year less than my client offered me to stay with the promise to increase my salary to the full amount on the 1st of May 2025 if I stayed. I accepted and once again could not have been happier and felt even more valued and wanted by my employer..that is such a great feeling to have. What a difference a year makes.

A month or two after I had just received my second raise in the same year, things started changing at work. They really started pushing policies which can only be described as Micromanagement. Some of the tasks they now wanted from us were extra work and did nothing but prove we did our job…but were in sales, if we were doing our job, our sales would obviously be up. Moral in office began to fall and it got so low you could feel it. Everybody in the office was complaining and the mood was very low. We have always had a lot of turnover at work and by this time, I had become the most senior employee in the office, even being there longer than the sales manager. After thinking about it over the weekend I decided being the senior employee and being that I felt like I was actually valued, I would go speak with management and share the concerns of the office. I felt like the meeting went well, like I was heard and expected things to get better. However, 3 days after I had my meeting, each of us in the sales office were called down into the board room individually with the sales manager and threatened, do what we want or else. The threat wasn't the end of the world, it was an administrative reprimand that was put on file but that wasn't the point. I was very angry, I felt like now that management had not listened to my concerns. I let it be known to management that I was not happy about the threat, they didn't seem to care. This went on for the remainder of last year with me sanding up for the sales office when I thought necessary. In December, just before we were about to leave for Christmas Holidays, they introduced yet more micromanaging policies. Our sales office is not a true sales office, it is more of an account management job combined with sales…every account had to be managed exactly together and there more tasks implemented which seemed to have no other purpose but again prove we were doing our jobs. Furthermore, one of the tasks in particular had to be set up and there was a lot too it and we were being rushed but still expected to try to make sales in the middle of all of this. I asked a simple question. I asked since the last week before we got out for Christmas break would be very quiet because we had no deliveries, why didn't we just wait and do all this extra work that week and then start the new year off with the new set up. I got a very snarky answer from management and then expressed to them that I was getting frustrated. The same CFO who just a few months prior had told me I was valued before giving me a raise now said to me "A few months ago, you were offered another job but we kept you. Now it seems all you do is complain. Don't you feel embarrassed?" I could not believe he said that to me. What a roller coaster In the space of 6 months, I went from being very happy and feeling valued to being very unhappy and feeling valued. I feel like I went in to ask for that raise today, I would not get it and if I was offered that other job today, they would let me go…maybe I am wrong but that is how I feel. However because of my salary now and because I am just about to sign the contract on my first home, I feel trapped. Furthermore, they demoted my sales manager who did fight for us and how have hired a yes man to manage us. He really doesn't care if we are happy or not…what ever the upper management says, he does and things have gotten worse the last two months. When speaking to the new manager about some of the policies he basically let it slip that he had heard I was a trouble maker. I don't know…I really don't want to work here anymore but I feel trapped because of my salary, and now I have the mortgage payment to make, taking less pay really isn't an option. I don't know what to do.