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Subject:Re: ANON: My replacement From:Peter Taylor <sector_five -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:41:04 PST
>When one receives a better offer to work somewhere else, isn't it fair
>to point out the market value of your effort and give your boss a
chance
>to meet it? If you are in a job that you like everything about
In this case, you should present your boss with some local pay-rate
survey information and tell them you want a raise in accordance. If you
go to your boss and say that you've got an offer from Company X and you
want them to meet or exceed that offer...well, I guess you could cloak
that in the guise that you're being "headhunted" and now you've
determined your value in the industry. But, in order to be worth that
much money you have to be _willing to leave_ to get that money. If you
aren't, it's just a big bluff and you really aren't worth that much
money after all.
So, your boss is left with two potential resolutions to the situation.
If they decide that you are willing to leave, they may offer you more
money because it's worth it for them to keep you around and find a
replacement for you on their timetable. Either way you're gone. Or, if
they realize that you aren't willing to leave, you have just introduced
doubt as to whether or not you had a better offer in the first place.
I believe you should just flat-out ask for a raise, more respect, or
more responsibility if that's what you want. You should have evidence to
back up your position. I think that playing the "I've got a better
offer" game is a losing proposition. Just be direct and be honest and
you should know exactly where you stand. If you feel like your boss
isn't adequately addressing your concerns, then you have to decide
whether to stay or go. You should keep that decision to yourself and
stick to it.
>the pay, it seems to me that the boss ought to be given the chance to
>re-evaluate the company's compensation policies. We all receive
feelers
>now and then from other employers in this business.
I don't think the boss will interpret the situation as an opportunity to
review the company's compensation policy. You are just one person, and
if everyone else is perfectly happy with their compensation then there
is no general compensation problem and no need to review it. If everyone
is unhappy with the compensation policy, perhaps you can band together
and demand as a group that the policy be reviewed. One person is not
likely to force a review, however.
>On the other hand, if the place is somewhere you are glad to escape
>from, smile shake hands and promise to stay in touch. Leave everything
>to do with that job in the past and look to the future.
I agree.
Peter Taylor.
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