After some perspective if the wise owls of MN can help please….
I work in a professional job and am partner in a professionally regulated firm. I have climbed quite high relatively quickly after a post-children career change. I became eligible for the company commission scheme in April 2025 but was never given a commission structure or my 2024-25 appraisal despite repeated requests. After a period of significant stress I eventually managed to pin them down and get an appraisal and commitment to my commission (but not before I realised my numbers were not accurately recorded and allocated to me, basically they recorded £65k less than what I’d actually billed for the year to date). It has been awful. Conversations about pay and trajectory have been shut down, and I have personal reasons as to why I need to earn a certain figure (namely mortgage and caring for two children as a single Mum with no one to share any sort of responsibility with). I have been offered a wonderful opportunity and I have taken it so am currently working out my notice.
My problem is that I finished a piece of work that brought in an £18k fee for the firm. My boss asked me to raise the invoice in January because it looked like we were going to finish, so I did, but we only got the money yesterday due to delays by other contractors. I was told we would keep the invoice under the 2025-26 figures as they were already reported rather than update it to when the invoice was actually sent out to the client. Using the same logic I asked if the invoice would be kept in my 2025-26 commission figures, and therefore would I get the commission.
I'm double-checking my updated contract and commission structure but the accountant has said that it was only ever going to be a concession on my boss’s part anyway (I suppose because the money came in in the new financial year), and that was only applicable before I decided to leave. Now that I've said I'm leaving apparently I can just eff off. I’m probably naive but even from a moral standpoint it seems shitty that they can choose to keep the numbers in last year’s figures so they look better, but the same wouldn’t apply to me (irrespective of whether I’m leaving or not). For background I’m going to be earning £10k more in my new role than I could ever earn in the best case, smash all my targets scenario, so I’m going to be better off whichever way. But they’ve been shabby (I could say so much more).
I don’t know what I want to hear. I’m not getting the money and I should let it go. But am just a bit, well, cross. And it feels a bit shitty.