Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
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#2This site had 3 pop-overs. I'm not sure they want me to read their content.
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#3This site had 3 pop-overs. I'm not sure they want me to read their content.
Agreed, one of them crashed on me and I had to reload the page. Terrible.
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#4This site had 3 pop-overs. I'm not sure they want me to read their content.
That's weird, I had one when the page loaded, I clicked close and didn't get any more. Interesting article anyway. :-)
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#5I find it interesting the Spolsky said he was going to stop writing yet keeps coming back. He mentioned on SO podcast that it was because it was such a time suck and that's why he wanted to give it up. Obviously he loves it and just can't...
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#6I find it interesting the Spolsky said he was going to stop writing yet keeps coming back. He mentioned on SO podcast that it was because it was such a time suck and that's why he wanted to give it up. Obviously he loves it and just can't...
There's apparently no date on the page, but the date in the URL is from about a year ago. Which makes sense, since I know I've seen this before.
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#7I find it interesting the Spolsky said he was going to stop writing yet keeps coming back. He mentioned on SO podcast that it was because it was such a time suck and that's why he wanted to give it up. Obviously he loves it and just can't...
There's apparently no date on the page, but the date in the URL is from about a year ago. Which makes sense, since I know I've seen this before.
Ah ok :-) - sorry I missed that!
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#8this whole Microsoft-style pay scale reminds me of government jobs, or worse - Soviet Union where my parents earned a standard doctor-engineer-truck driver-movie director-nurse salary of 100 rubles a month +/- the bureaucrat defined 'pay scale'. Come on, people, this is a free market!
"is this the UDA? / Or is this the IRA? / I thought it was the USA / Or just another country" (c) Sex Pistols
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#9This is not the first of Spolsky's essays that's left me simultaneously amazed at his brilliance and clarity and dismayed at something around the edges that just completely misses. Maybe it's just the title that's misleading. His emphasis on openness is great but he's really just moved the discussion from "how much money" to "how should I rate your contributions." Most salary discussions come down to this question and it's a concept that's very difficult to define precisely. The guy whose lunchtime conversations shape his colleagues' ideas may have made a profound contribution but if his own direct efforts don't match "Has consistently had major success..." then I'm guessing there's still a lot of room for negotiation - particularly if the employee realizes that making this case will give him a lot more money. Focusing on output is great, but that's what most salary negotiations end up being about.
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#10This site had 3 pop-overs. I'm not sure they want me to read their content.
Agreed, terrible. The last one didn't have a place to close it, so I bounced. Too bad, since the discussion looks like it was an interesting article.