what would you do....

[Akula]

Lets say you are one of three guys that knows/does a specific job at your company. Lets further supposed the other two guys quit. You can smell the fear/blood in the water.

 

Do you immediately start asking for a raise or do you just ignore it?

[thorne]

give it a month or 2 then ask for a raise.

[evil8]

If you respect your company/boss, and have been treated fairly, take it easy. If you feel the opposite, go for the kill. How you react can affect your long term.

[Akula]

I already have another job or two if I want them. I like the company but this is an economics problem.

 

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. For the company it is money, for me it is time. They will be requiring more of mine, therefore I require more of theirs.

[Guest Hal]

If they are requiring more from you because of their loss, by all means, ask for the raise.

[flippy1974]

id ask for more money

[Bird69]

it's business. who cares about their feelings? go for the raise, they can only say no.

[Archie]

Ask for a raise! Ultimately you will be slammed with work if you are the only one who knows how to do a specific task/trade. Your boss should increase your pay because if you leave, he's fucked!

[Guest agtw31]

better take a look at the economy before getting greedy.

[HotCarl]

...if your son was at home. Crying all alone on the bedroom floor cuz he's hungry and the only way to feed him is sleep with a man for a little bit of money and his daddy's gone, somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lockdown I aint got a job now.

[HotCarl]

Seriously though. Depending how long you have served this particular position within the company and how competant you are in doing so I wouldnt see the problem in asking for more compensation for your time and increased workload. In laymen's terms, they just cut 2 salaries, no matter how much more they give you it wont equate to all three of your salaries put together so the company is still saving money.

[Black ITR Guy]

if you are carrying more weight u deserve it!

[nurkvinny]

it's business. who cares about their feelings? go for the raise, they can only say no.

 

Yep.

[Akula]

Well, I asked for the raise. I made it pretty clear that I know they are going to either put me on the road more or give me piles of more work. I did mention that the group budget is doing much better now that this guy is gone. Should be fun to watch them squirm as they start wondering how serious I am.

[Johny Utah]

I had a chance to do that last year. We were understaffed. I was taking care of other people's jobs. I could have asked for a big raise. I did not since I have a good realasionship with the owner. Did not want to mess that up.

[dragknee66]

Sir if you already have something else lined up.. drop the ball on that shit! Say its going to be $x raise or youll part ways.

[boosted98gst]

if you are carrying more weight u deserve it!

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