Yeah, similar to your pay comment, I've become disillusioned by the company screwing me over and passing me over. I consider salary/raise/promo negotiations to be part of the politics and games. What else would you say is the root cause of you being underpaid?

Starting my career with lower comp. I detailed this in a post in this same thread, just a little higher up.

Cool. That's part of what I did too - lower starting comp and stayed at the same company (8 years now).