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A friend of mine told his boss “I’m going traveling for three months starting in January. Am I quitting or just taking a leave of absence?”. It worked. To nego
by paulsutter 7y ago
A friend of mine told his boss “I’m going traveling for three months starting in January. Am I quitting or just taking a leave of absence?”. It worked.
To negotiate more vacation days at hiring, you need multiple offers. Then you can tell them “I will accept your offer if it includes six weeks of vacation. Otherwise I’m going to Facebook”. It probably means negotiating a little less hard on pay since you need to focus to get it. But that’s probably fair.
- badfrog 7y ago> Then you can tell them “I will accept your offer if it includes six weeks of vacation. Otherwise I’m going to Facebook” I've used that exact line, and they didn't budge, so I went to Facebook. I guess everywhere I've applied is large tech companies. It might work better at smaller firms.
- paulsutter 7y agoNegotiation is never a sure thing. Don’t say it unless you mean it, it can always go either way.
- lonelappde 7y agoFacebook budged, and Facebook is a big tech company.
- SomeOtherThrow 7y agoThey won’t ever “budge” all the way up to your actual worth though, you just went from 10% of your worth to 12%.
- badfrog 7y agoReally? I thought they were 21 days for literally everybody. What did you get?
- wikibob 7y agoHow much vacation time did you get at Facebook?
- badfrog 7y agoAll US employees get 21 days. Not amazing, but it's better than the starting level for many companies.