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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Negotiating with your current boss is significantly more difficult than negotiating with a future prospective firm, because your future prospective firm doesn't have the power to fire you.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It's 10000x better in the blue collar world because right off the bat you're assumed to be as useless as a person can possibly be so you either do the futile argue for a raise (which never matches what you should get) or you take a huge pay cut when finding a new job...

    I've been stuck in the same cycle for 15 years now... Get shitty raises for 5 years, get burned out and bail, take massive pay cut, prove my worth to get back to shitty wage I left for but am now burned out again, find a new job and take another massive pay cut etc etc... adjusted for inflation I make as much now as I did 10 years ago...

    These articles are always about white collar work. :(

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    My job doesn't like to give titles so no one can determine their value, but I'm something like a supervisor/manager/QC in a factory that makes luxury products for the ultra wealthy and the military.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    What kind of luxury products does the military buy?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a separate part of the company. The parts are similar but not made to be luxurious and some are just completely different things that aren't luxury at all. I wrote the initial comment without the military part added, but I edited it to add that so I guess it kinda reads a little odd now.

    I don't think there are many companies at all that do what we do so I'm being kinda vague lol

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