[ SECRET POST #3944 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3944 ⌋

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[Trollhunters]


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[Frank Castle, Karen Page]


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[Blue Reflection]


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[Aladdin]


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[Supergirl]


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[The Sims]


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[Twilight (novels)]


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[akidearest]







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Comments

Re: Asking for a raise?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree with the comments telling you to go for it or that there's nothing to lose. You haven't provided much detail, and "the worst they could say is no" is terrible advice if people aren't familiar with your situation. Ask yourself these questions:

* How much was your last raise?
* Is it typical for your employer to give regular raises every year?
* Is your boss fair and reasonable?
* What do you think your boss' assessment of YOU will be?
* How was your performance this past year? Have you done anything that particularly merits a raise? Be brutally honest with yourself. Just doing your job well is the minimum requirement, not an amazing achievement.
* Are you the kind of employee who's always on time, doesn't duck out early or take lots of sick days, etc. Do you finish assignments in a timely manner? Do you require a lot of hand-holding?
* What's the average hourly wage for your position, and how does that compare with your current hourly wage?
* Can you be easily replaced in your job? Because if you can be, then you're making trouble for yourself. Ask yourself why they would keep you and pay you more instead of hiring a new person and paying them your current hourly wage or less? This isn't to be mean here, you genuinely have to figure out what you specifically bring to the table that other people don't.


You might think that another $1 per hour isn't a lot, but that rather depends on what your wages are now. If you're earning $10/hour, that's a 10% raise. I don't know if you realize this, but that's actually huge. It's rare for salaried workers to get that high of a percentage of a raise. A bonus, maybe. A raise, no. Think more like 3%. For someone who earns $10/hour, that's a raise of .30/hour. If you can't answer the above questions and justify to yourself that you deserved and earned a raise, then I wouldn't bring it up.