"Best year ever!" "Sorry, we can't do raises this year."

Who is getting all the money?

I recall a parasite that attaches itself to the tongues of fish and takes its own share of whatever the fish consumes.

There’s organisational equivalents of this.

The "job creators"

Maybe you'll get a subscription to the jelly of the month club. It's the gift that keeps on giving

Dont cry about it. Just switch companies. If you are high value it should be easy.

That may have been true once upon a time, but there have been several threads over the past month or so citing that folks can't get calls back and encounter a ton of ghost job postings. Or maybe we have differing definitions of "high value"