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[ClovingWestbrook]

Try a forum for professionals in your field. You gotta remember that most of NeoGAF lives in their parent's basement and consists on a diet of cheetos and mountain dew. It sounds like you're in a highly competitive field and I'm sure rapid raises are commonplace, just try to find out what other people with your experience and age are making.

Ughh, really? Can you generalize anymore?

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Let's just keep it really simple:

I started here 9 months ago.

At the 3 month mark, I was given a raise +3k.
At the 6 month mark, I was given permanent status + benefits, no raise.
At the 9 month mark, I was given a raise +4k.

7k in 9 months, is that acceptable? This is my first full-time job after graduating from University! Help me out GAF!

:|

My first full time job after college as well and I have been here 8 months and won't get to talk about a raise until next January when they do reviews. You are lucky to have 7k more than 9 months ago, that is nuts.

 

[Technosteve]

i'll just assume that raise is in YEN so it will make me feel better, been with out a raise for 2 years due to pay freeze recession combo.

 

[Trigunner]

I started at $17. After 2 years I am up to $18.01.

Fuck you :|

No, fuck you...when I worked at Target I only received an extra .14 cents after three years.

 

[VariantX04]

Try a forum for professionals in your field. You gotta remember that most of NeoGAF lives in their parent's basement and consists on a diet of cheetos and mountain dew. It sounds like you're in a highly competitive field and I'm sure rapid raises are commonplace, just try to find out what other people with your experience and age are making.

smh

OP, how could you have worked at that place for almost one year and not know whether your raise is considered a decent amount? Did your colleagues direct you to GAF?

 

[Tieno]

attention whore

 

[Technosteve]

attention whore

your back!

 

[tedtropy]

I just wanted to see if the OP had a personal jet yet and was bitching about the quality of the leather on the seats.

 

[captmcblack]

I just got offered a job today and negotiated a review/raise every 6 months in my contract, and easy-to-reach bonus incentives each year.

fuck your couch, op

 

[Tieno]

your back!

my back?

 

[Like the hat?]

I got a $300 raise in two years and I was glad to take it.

 

[Dennis]

Try a forum for professionals in your field. You gotta remember that most of NeoGAF lives in their parent's basement and consists on a diet of cheetos and mountain dew. It sounds like you're in a highly competitive field and I'm sure rapid raises are commonplace, just try to find out what other people with your experience and age are making.

Speak for yourself dude.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

look at this article :

http://www.health-choices-for-life.com/pharmaceutical_consultant.html

The Pharmaceutical Consultant...
Real Trailblazers in Corruption

Keeping the Money Flowing




How far would pharmaceutical consultants go for their company or the industry itself to keep the money flowing to? This is a test.


Here's twenty five questions that come quickly to mind:

Would a pharmaceutical consultant lobby to make vaccines and drugs mandatory?
Would they hide data on side effects from the FDA?
Would they hide adverse effects or under report adverse effects?
Would they silence people injured from taking their drugs with money or lawsuits?
Would they hide data on interactions with other drugs, herbs or foods?
Would they bribe FDA officials to get favorable decisions on their drugs?
Would they hold out the promise of high paying jobs to FDA personnel?
Would they lie to doctors and provide slanted information on their drugs?
Would they promote their drugs to doctors for unapproved treatments?
Would they set up discounts and cash rebates (kickbacks) for doctors?
Would they hire celebrity doctors to market their drugs?
Would they use their money to turn the TV networks into pimps for their products?
Would they hire doctors as consultants and speakers for their products?
Would they provide financial incentives for doctors to prescribe drugs for people who don't need them?
Would they influence future doctors by funding medical school curricula?
Would they influence doctors by funding and providing slanted continuing education programs?
Would they buy influence in congress by making political contributions?
Would they lobby for laws to limit competition from dietary supplements and other alternative health remedies?
Would they lobby to block competition from lower cost foreign drugs, such as Canada?
Would they try to limit access to generic drugs?
Would they buy out companies with promising competitive therapies for the purpose of shutting them down?
Would they influence nursing homes to keep their patients in a drugged state?
Would they lobby to get children on as many drugs as early as possible?
Would they create marketing campaigns for non-existent diseases to sell drugs?
Would they invent diseases that can only be treated with their drugs?


If you answered "Yes" to every question above, you can count yourself as being very well informed and up to date on news stories from the past few years. You recognize pharmaceutical consultants for what they really are...influence peddlers, lobbyists, Armani drug dealers and corruptors. The message is that obscene amounts of money is a very powerful and corrupting thing in the hands of a highly competitive, performance driven industry.

......

 

[Zoe]

So this is pretty decent? I just want to make sure, and it's not a 7k raise... it's just a 4k raise over 3 months. 7k in total over 9 months, which is almost a year I've been working my butt off here.

Even discounting the first 3K as a salary adjustment, you'd have to be making well over 100K to consider a 4K raise to be insufficient.

 

[kathode]

To OP, would've been better if you had listed percentages instead of dollar amounts (assuming you want to keep your salary a secret).

Just keep in mind that if you worked for the federal government, you would be seeing a 2-3% raise this year. And the vast majority of people in salaried positions get one salary review a year where they might or might not get a raise.

So you have to understand that coming in and asking if your (very likely) double-digit percentage raise over the course of the last year is enough comes off like a brag.

 

[gutter_trash]

thread is a joke, 7k within 9 months? LOL
seriously, think

 

[K.Jack]

You have to be getting PAID to question $7k in less than a year. What was it, a 5-7% raise?

Congrats.

 

[SapientWolf]

You have to be getting PAID to question $7k in less than a year. What was it, a 5-7% raise?

Congrats.

Or he could be making under $30k and he's wondering when he's going to be able to go off of Ramen.

 

[jiien]

Or he could be making under $30k and he's wondering when he's going to be able to go off of Ramen.

If the OP just got a 25% raise, I don't think he'd hesitate to tell people he was only making 30k to begin with (then again, he'd also be an idiot for thinking that was a small raise, rather than question his base salary to begin with). OP would probably be less willing to advertise that he makes over 100k a year...

I mean, look at all the people in this thread unafraid to tell just how little they make.

Therefore, OP is an asshole, and came to brag.

 

[Chavelo]

Try a forum for professionals in your field. You gotta remember that most of NeoGAF lives in their parent's basement and consists on a diet of cheetos and mountain dew. It sounds like you're in a highly competitive field and I'm sure rapid raises are commonplace, just try to find out what other people with your experience and age are making.

LMAO... Except the OP and you, right?

This motherfucker...

smh

 

[ClosingADoor]

You should just quit. Only 7k in one year? Man, I don't get out of bed for that shit.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Man just 7k right out of University? If it were me I would accept nothing less than politician or CEO class hookers, a luxury apartment, my own office on the top floor, a kilo of pure cocaine to use at my own discretion, and of course unlimited use of the company helicopter.

 

[ultim8p00]

Fuck that shit. You should keep it real and threaten your boss. It never goes wrong.

 

[Arment]

Hell yes that's low.

Go have an affair with his wife, then call him and demand roughly 7k more.

 

[Mudkips]

If he doesn't upgrade to GAF Gold by the end of the week, ban him.

Spoiler

gif!

 

[Mobius 1]

You are being exploited. You should definitely talk to a lawyer that is certified in labor law and have this situation adjusted with your employer. God forbid they treat another employee like a peasant.

 

[Monocle]

The next step is obvious: You must pressure your boss with discreet but gradually intensifying sexual harassment until he or she realizes that you were treated unfairly. This will send a clear message while avoiding an awkward confrontation.

 

[Lamel]

You've gotta be shittin' me...

 

[Haly]

Man, GAF really seems fixated on sleeping with their bosses' wives.

 

[Razor210]

Post your damn starting salary OP

 

[CrankyJay]

Where is that attention whore gif with the guy with the marracas when you need it?

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Let's just keep it really simple:

I started here 9 months ago.

At the 3 month mark, I was given a raise +3k.
At the 6 month mark, I was given permanent status + benefits, no raise.
At the 9 month mark, I was given a raise +4k.

7k in 9 months, is that acceptable? This is my first full-time job after graduating from University! Help me out GAF!

When the going's good the good get going.

But yea, don't.

Also, those kind of raises are given when you are doing something illegal.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

In just his raises, the OP made more than twice my total income over the last twelve months, and he's roughly ten years my junior. That is humbling.

 

[WickedAngel]

You should quit.

 

[DMeisterJ]

I really need to find a job. :/

Fixed for me.

:sadface:

In just his raises, the OP made more than twice my total income over the last twelve months, and he's roughly ten years my junior. That is humbling.

You should never compare yourself to other people's lives, you'll always be humbled because someone will always make more/be better/excel at something that you don't.

 

[dgenx]

As a career advisor wait a week and send ir boss daily emails with pics of things u would buy with ur new raise also invite him to ur place get him drunk get hookers tape him and blackmail him

 

[MaxSteel]

guys, advice please

in the past month, i've gotten blowjobs from 17 different girls.

is that good?

at the beginning of the month i was getting my dick sucked like every other day - but this past week, it's like twice a day that i'm getting these amazing blowjobs from these amazing girls.

but is this a good thing? i feel like maybe i should be getting more fantastic blowjobs. is this enough? i mean, i don't wanna be stuck in this 17 blowjob a month situation.

17 blowjobs from 17 girls per month, is that acceptable? and thing is - i'm not even trying to get blowjobs!

Help me out GAF!

 

[Haly]

You should always compare yourself to other people's lives, because someone will always make more/be better/excel at something that you don't which will give you motivation to do better.

Fixed for asian perspective.

 

[Alfarif]

Let's just keep it really simple:

I started here 9 months ago.

At the 3 month mark, I was given a raise +3k.
At the 6 month mark, I was given permanent status + benefits, no raise.
At the 9 month mark, I was given a raise +4k.

7k in 9 months, is that acceptable? This is my first full-time job after graduating from University! Help me out GAF!

I wish I had your problem. My last yearly raise (two years ago; we've been in pay freeze for that long) added an additional $500 a year to my salary. *claps* The one I will get this year, which is company wide, will be so paltry that I don't even give a shit about it. Getting $7k in 9 months means that you are extorting someone heavily. Should detective GAF find out who you are and blackmail you to get some of those dividends? Hmm...

 

[demon]

Your question is meaningless until you tell us how much you actually make so we get some sort of context. Although if you're fresh out of college then I doubt you make nearly enough for a $7k raise in one year to not be considered unusually fucking good.

In short, yes ask for an additional raise, then after you get fired and laughed out of your boss's office, kill yourself.

 

[Akuun]

Most people only even get the chance for a raise once a year, and even then the raise is probably less than either of yours.

I'd say you're doing pretty well.

 

[tanod]

So 7000 what? Yen? Canadian Dollars? Rubels?

 

[poweld]

I've been working my ass off for nearly two years and I've gotten 0 raise. Software engineer, security. Just enjoy it and don't go being a dick about it.

 

[MWS Natural]

Wow I was just bout to make a "How to justify a raise?" thread then I did a search first. I know I am getting a raise in a week but I don't know if it will be 1k or 10k..how do I make sure I get the most possible??

 

[Shinjitsu]

Guys, im not sure if this:

is large enough bonus for two weeks of work. Should I ask for a personal Jet as well?

 

[Jocchan]

So 7000 what? Yen? Canadian Dollars? Rubels?

Pieces of shiny plastic.

 

[-PXG-]

Yeah OP, do it. Ask your boss/ payroll for another raise. I fucking dare you.

 

[duderon]

Buy some hookers and blow with all your cash instead of baiting us poor saps on GAF.

 

[sky]

Yeah, it depends on how fair your base salary is in relation to others in your field.
If you think you deserve more, it never hurts to ask.

 

[WickedAngel]

So 7000 what? Yen? Canadian Dollars? Rubels?

Pesos.