Asking for a raise
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- flavorful0
Don’t fucking wait until December.
j_red had some really good advice, my company does that to each of their employees to help gauge where people should be at, and where they are, and everything is in writing.
- gramme0
good call flavorful, I'll hit her up in June and ask how I'm doing.
If nothing else gets botched.
- johndiggity0
i'd look for a new job. get a fresh start with a clean slate and higher starting salary.
- gramme0
i'd look for a new job. get a fresh start with a clean slate and higher starting salary.
johndiggity
(Mar 22 07, 08:49)Unless you know something I don't, I think I'll hang around for a bit. She's back in town tomorrow and promised we'd talk about the 4-5 projects that are gathering dust in the closet. Plus at least one new job is coming down the pike, presumably.
It's a brilliant job when there's work to be done.
However, if tomorrow is another snoozer, I might just take your advise john. Few things drive me mad like enforced boredom. I've organized all my stuff, helped other people, plumbed the depths of NT...maybe tomorrow I'll bring in some DVDs and back up some work.
- johndiggity0
it's easy to get stereotyped and difficult to over come, especially so at a smaller company, and even more so if you ever made a mistake.
nor harm in looking and you will have some leverage. you never know what is out there waiting.
- gramme0
i hear that...slim pickings around here though. I've gotten married this year and my lease isn't up til October.
My heart has always been in freelance, but if I went solo right now I'd have three clients, one of which is mostly pro bono, another which is a well-paying but solo businessman, and a mediocre (at best) ad agency right up the road from here.
- material-10
20 G's
that was your raise holmes.
- material-10
I guess it can't hurt to ask for a cost of living increase. still 20G's...
- gramme0
basically i'm saying i feel like i need more experience before going it alone (in light of how much I've learned this year), and I've kinda already reached the top of the heap in St. Louis. There are a few other shops in town and none of them are better.
- RoomFive0
yeah the 20G's thing is REALLY gonna hurt your case?! plus is a year that long... and if you're not that hard pressed at the moment with workload... :/
- -sputnik-0
i'd say yes...wait a bit. shine on a project or two and just around the time she mentions you're doing a good job, go in for the request
- flavorful0
Every company at the very least should have a year salary review for at the very least a cost of living increase.
However, you might want to let it go for awhile until you pull off something pretty good ... and not rite after you cost your company 20K, haha.
- johndiggity0
so in the span of a year you've managed to fuck up a $20k print job, you are doing half as much work as you used to, and you want a raise?
- flavorful0
Personally ... I’ve never been complacent with a cost of living increase, or let them think that anything like that would keep me around.
- j_red0
ask for a review every 6 months, set goals in the review, and then discuss the goals each 6 months. then you have concise benchmarks that you can use as proof of your value to the company.
- flavorful0
Wait, gramme, you just got married ... in 2007?
- Mimio0
The scuttled print job was last month? Maybe wait a bit to ask for a pay hike.
- gramme0
Wait, gramme, you just got married ... in 2007?
flavorful
(Mar 22 07, 09:18)october of 2006
- gramme0
so in the span of a year you've managed to fuck up a $20k print job, you are doing half as much work as you used to, and you want a raise?
johndiggity
(Mar 22 07, 07:46)Thanks for the advice all. johndiggity, when put that way it does make me sound like a jackass...in light of what happened last month I wasn't planning on asking for a raise too soon, just wondered how long I should wait.
I didn't mention in my original post that I've pulled many 80 hour weeks, for one stretch working every day for 7 weeks straight, and receive kudos from my boss and clients on nearly every project.
There's a brochure for an engraver that I worked on, samples should come soon and I REEALLY hope they look as good as I saw them in my head...
:/
- material-10
the 20 G's would be hard to forget, IMO