The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Yeah... I think this negotiating a raise stuff is specific to certain company cultures. I've not heard of it happening anywhere I've worked except in exceptional circumstances like key people thinking of quitting.

I know people who do it - I think it's relatively standard in your review/when you get told about a pay rise.

As I say the main issue for us is our culture not company culture I think 

The culture that let you conquer all parts of the globe where people wore skirts and carried sharpened mangoes into battle? For shame.

[Syt]

[Syt]

RIP, Mort Drucker. He did the art for many of the MAD movie parodies.

[The Brain]

RIP

[Caliga]

Linoleum Wiper

[Syt]

Cobi is releasing this in July/August:





1550 pieces - though tbf, 3-400 will probably be the tank treads.
45x11x33.5 cm

[The Brain]

About time.

[Barrister]

We bought the boys the Cobi Titanic set for last Christmas.

Looks cool once completed, but don't think it's as well thought out as a Lego set.  Directions definitely weren't as good.

[merithyn]

I am alarmed at the prospect of having to negotiate. It goes against sort of British instincts: confrontation and talking about money

Negotiating is definitely not easy and not for everyone, but the unfortunate reality is that in many places not negotiating means you get screwed over by the employer.

My current company doesn't negotiate our annual salary increases. They way they're done doesn't allow for that.

However, because I was upset by my annual raise (2.75%), my boss suggested that I pull together documentation to show why I feel that I deserve more. In doing so, I think I've made a proper request for a promotion, too. I won't be showing it to my manager nor his manager for a few weeks, though. They've a bit on their plate right now with COVID-19.

[Habbaku]

Negotiation doesn't have to be about annual raises, to be sure. Those are often fixed into place by the company's operations. Merit raises and, hell, just asking for a raise in general? Those are definitely up for negotiation.

[merithyn]

Negotiation doesn't have to be about annual raises, to be sure. Those are often fixed into place by the company's operations. Merit raises and, hell, just asking for a raise in general? Those are definitely up for negotiation.

Our annual raises are merit raises.

[Habbaku]

OK.

[Admiral Yi]

Selling off doctors makes up 46% of Cuba's exports. 

The Cuban state keeps 3/4 of what the slave master host country pays for the doctor.

[Syt]

We bought the boys the Cobi Titanic set for last Christmas.

Looks cool once completed, but don't think it's as well thought out as a Lego set.  Directions definitely weren't as good.

Oh? Never ran into any issues with them.

[MadImmortalMan]

Selling off doctors makes up 46% of Cuba's exports. 

The Cuban state keeps 3/4 of what the slave master host country pays for the doctor.

Kim Jong Un does the same thing for most of his personal income. Farming out laborers for things like building projects in other countries. The workers have to have wives and children back home though to make sure they don't try to defect or talk about it.