Re: Ask for a raise? Or pack my bags?

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

As I said, asking for anything you don't have is a potential risk. In 
most cases it's a pretty negligible one, but I'm not going to tell 
people that when I don't know anything about the corporate culture where 
they work.

I once took over an existing department and discovered that a writer who 
had been there for over 10 years was being paid 20% less than new 
hires.  Took a bit of arguing about the fellow's deep experience and 
long history of reliable performance, but I managed to get him up to 
par. If you have a manager who sees the disparity and is willing to go 
fight to fix it, that's one thing, but if what you have is one who's 
telling you that you can't even telecommute anymore, I don't see that as 
promising.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 6/23/2015 12:50 PM, Robart, Kay wrote: