As you should have. You earned it.
But how would you have felt if your equal co-worker got compansated the same as you despite doing nothing nore than the bare minimum acceptable?
I asked this earlier...
Do you reward a child for going to school everyday as expected?
Do you reward a child for getting c's....by doing the bare mninimum required to pass with an average grade?
i think we agree but I don't think you have given enough credit to the pencil pusher....not everyone can be heroes and climb the ladder... and sometimes you don't want everybody to be seeking more and more and more from their employers....sometimes the importance of the position is that the employee understands his position and job duties and is there every single day, rain or shine, sick kid or not, to do it....
If everyone was at work to ''out do'' the next guy in every single position, it would be chaos and too cut throat of an environment for the company's own good....trust me on that....
the pencil pushers are sometimes just as important as the thinkers...
as example....sometimes, it can be good to have the same familiar good receptionist greeting your vendors or clients year after year....it makes clients more comfortable...sometimes it is good that you don't have some person as receptionist that wants to get the heck out of that position and climb the ladder....so yes, the show up every day, dedicated to the company during working hours person like the good receptionist that does not want to move up, SHOULD and were rewarded....of course not to the same degree of the workaholics, but rewarded none the less....
though many can and I do not begrudge them, but I personally could not function as a union employee if this meant getting paid and rewarded in the same manner as the average Joe next to me....I enjoyed being patted on the back and rewarded for what I was worth and what I gave to the company.