This is good advice, thank you.
Consider the following:
- be happy
- see LPT
- search for competing jobs
- find out you are being underpaid
- approach boss
- boss fires
- apply at other job
- get job
- coworkers and environmental are shit
- be unhappy
or
- be happy
- see LPT
- search for competing jobs
- find out you are being underpaid
- IT notes you’re using business time for personal use
- you are fired a few minutes later
- apply at other job
- denied because you are now known to waste company time
- 5 steps later, move back in with your elderly parents
Sometimes, it’s okay to actually just be happy.
This got me thinking. That is more than inflation, right? Where is this coming from? Maybe it’s coming from happy guys who don’t ask for a raise.
So is this pitting workers against each other? Some act, but only for their personal gain, at the expense of others. When together, they could get fair raises constantly and still be happy guys?
I think you’re oversimplifying the “supply” of salary, companies have budgets they allocate for salaries. One employee getting a better salary thans someone else doesn’t always mean that there’s no room to give a raise for that someone else, it all depends on the budgeting.
I do agree that negotiating together is better, I generally also think just talking about salaries is good (among coworkers), don’t know why it’s a taboo in the US.
