It sounds like you have done this in the past, and it is blackmail.<p>And I understand that you don&#x27;t want to see yourself as a blackmailer.<p>&quot;I&#x27;m more worth than that&quot; and leaving is standing up.<p>&quot;Give me more money or I leave&quot; is blackmail.<p>&quot;Regarding your Wikipedia quote, leaving a job in which you are abused and underpaid is not at all unjustified.&quot;<p>Leaving is not the blackmail part, threatening to leave is the blackmail part.