Show HN: Ask for a Raise Day
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#2This is definitely something that people should not be shy about discussing.
Getting a 'yes' from your boss is obviously nice, but getting a 'no' can also be beneficial. It sets future expectation for both parties.
And a repeated 'no' sends a clear signal: find a better job.
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#3I love this idea, but as somebody (who happens to be a woman who has never asked for a raise), he doesn't answer the question of how to start this conversation. I think that having a few talking points to get started would be really beneficial.
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#4Wow please do not do this. This is a great way to destroy your relationship with your boss and cement it in the exploiter/exploited dynamic. Edit: because it implies from the start that you are being taken advantage of. You are not some proletariat worker being taken advantage of. Ask for a salary you feel is fair, and work for it.
If you feel like you've improved your skills to the point where you are now providing more value to the company, ask that that is reflected in your paycheck. Don't do this on some arbitrary day, or worse in the middle of a crisis, do it during a down time after you have just successfully demonstrated your newly increased value on a project (maybe by recovering from that crisis calmly and effectively, maybe by stepping up and taking more responsibility on a project etc.)
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#5I love this idea, but as somebody (who happens to be a woman who has never asked for a raise), he doesn't answer the question of how to start this conversation. I think that having a few talking points to get started would be really beneficial.
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#6Did this get killed? I can't find it on the list
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#7This marxist idea won't do good for people.
If everybody starts asking for raises any time, just because they can, some people will get their raises, nice, but other people (the less useful people) will have to lose their jobs for this to happen.
Hey, you marxist who created this, there is not a lot of money in the bad capitalist pocket which he is hiding from you.
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#9Unless one is severely underpaid, I don't think asking for a raise without doing extraordinary contribution makes sense.
Mathematically speaking, for someone to get 10% raise above market price, they must demonstrate 10% extra output from market. Granted this is not how the real world works, partly because performance is so difficult to measure objectively without being vulnerable to gaming. So, without rigid metrics and incentive program, this problem degenerates into subjective assessment.
Now how do you feel when you tip someone and they ask for another 50 cents?
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#10Did this get killed? I can't find it on the list
It fell in rank because users flagged it. Also, it set off the voting ring detector.