Asking for a raise can get you more money, or damage your career. At times it can get you fired. Here are 9 things not to day when asking for a raise.
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This may be counter-intuitive, but when you try to leave your job, your boss looks at YOU as the cheating husband. Your boss sees YOU as the betrayer no matter how many times he has failed to follow up on his promises. He may have not given you any raises in 4 years, but he [...] Should you trust your old boss after you hand in your resignation? Here is what always happens. Some people have so much respect for their superiors, they have none left for themselves. (Peter McArthur) Her boss told her he’d fix all the problems she mentioned if she would just come back. She made a list. He promised, [...] I had two people axed for falsifying their resumes in a year. The saddest part is that in both cases the lie that cost them their job was not significant to getting the job. In other words, if they told the truth they still would have gotten the job, they would still have it. One [...] Each summer we watch a falcon’s nest a dozen floors above the train station in Harrisburg. See it here. Five falcons fledged our first year. That means they finally got the maturity and confidence to jump off the ledge and fly. Fledging is learning to fly. When falcons fledge, they are prepared. They spend time exercising [...] Superman would be fired today. As a matter of fact, Superman is the target for layoffs in many jobs. In today’s business environment there are times your job cannot be saved, especially if you are superior. Peter was a highly skilled and paid IBM mainframe computer systems administrator. EDS asked him to become a Unix computer [...] There are straightforward steps you should take before you quit. And some things you should never do. Paranoia is healthy when you are quitting. Here is a true story. Frank bragged to his coworkers and his boss as he quit. He told them about his new job as branch manager, of his future earnings, [...] A severely underpaid programmer worked on my team. I didn’t know he was underpaid until he came to me in disgust and said, “I just got a raise. I was earning $35,000 per year. Now I’m going to be making $55,000. Those $%@& should have been paying me more for years.” Joe had finally [...] Jack’s temporary assignment at the salt mine was coming to a close after a great 9 month term. He was only scheduled for 3 months, but he had done so well it was extended several times. He was getting antsy. Two days before his scheduled last day, he stalked into his bosses office, threw his [...] Are you too stinkin’ meek to get a job, a raise, or a promotion? One PhD student conceived, executed and documented an experiment that was amazing. He also finished several other lesser experiments. A week later the professor who supervised his PhD program came back from a trip and said, “You’ve come up with some wonderful [...] |
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