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How people perceive value is a weird thing. Large raises suddenly makes some employers re-evaluate what they're getting for their money's worth. In their eyes,
by lj3 10y ago
How people perceive value is a weird thing. Large raises suddenly makes some employers re-evaluate what they're getting for their money's worth. In their eyes, they're paying more money (sometimes a LOT more money) for essentially no change in work. That's profit out of their pocket and that makes them resentful. They don't look at new hires that same way, no matter what they cost, because they're getting an increase in workload for that spent money.
I don't at all agree with the above mindset, but I can easily see how somebody can look at it that way.
- tcoppi 10y agoThis is definitely an interesting aspect of human psychology that some places seem to be able to work around, like Google, which from what I understand is able to compensate their employees well relative to the market without them needing to job hop.
- emodendroket 10y agoAmong other things, Google is huge and so it's less personal.
- emodendroket 10y agoIt wasn't a for-profit business but there was definitely some sense that I was some young upstart who didn't know his place. Whatever, it's water under the bridge now.
- wyclif 10y agoThis is a big reason why I tend to think that it's almost always better (some qualifiers apply) to take a new job instead of trying to get a raise after your comp has been "anchored" by the company.
- justinlardinois 10y agoOf course. You're already got an offer in hand from a company that believes you're worth a certain amount of money; why go through the potential landmine of trying to convince your current company of the same?
- wyclif 10y agoEven when you don't have an offer in hand, it may very well be the case.
- emodendroket 10y agoWell, the temptation is that you are happy with aspects of your job other than the pay. But I wouldn't do it again.