A direct report has a salary concern. You promised something to the direct report. You take this to your manager, and he tells you to “speak like a leader, not

A direct report has a salary concern. You promised something to the direct report. You take this to your manager, and he tells you to “speak like a leader, not an engineer”. Did I get all that right? If this is accurate, you left a lot of details out of your first post. Most of the responses won’t help you at all with this specific situation. This seems like a budgeting issue. What did you promise your direct report?