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“What are your salary expectations?” “$153,845.64” Anybody ever tried that?
by qznc 4y ago
“What are your salary expectations?”
“$153,845.64”
Anybody ever tried that?
- tsukurimashou 4y agoI will
- andi999 4y agoadd one more digit. Every ten years they need to pay another cent.
- MauranKilom 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/2597/ https://xkcd.com/2597/
- FatalLogic 4y agoThat extra $0.64 could lose you the job, because you'd appear to be insane and obsessed with tiny unimportant details
- op00to 4y agoMy old boss loved to calculate our salaries (increases always in percentages) so the actual dollar amount would contain our birthday or be $123456 or whatever.
- pc86 4y agoOh so they were actually insane, got it :)
- op00to 4y agoHis reasoning was 5% is just as arbitrary as 5.02% or whatever he would do. Also it really pissed off finance, which you rarely get to do with impunity. I miss him. My new boss is more concerned with my haircut and beard than anything else.
- glouwbug 4y agoThen shake a leg and get a 6% promotion
- nonameiguess 4y agoWe're currently on Kubernetes version 1.23.4 and I'm trying very hard to convince people we can't upgrade until it hits 2.34.5.
- contravariant 4y agoLooks like you were too late to convince Kubernetes to deviate from semantic versioning and instead move to Knuth versioning with the version getting asymptotically closer and closer to 100/9^2.
- Pete-Codes 4y agoyeah, birthday date is a clever trick to add in a number
- Sankra 4y agoNot with that exact number, but on my last job change my demand was equally precise. Although we reached an agreement, my new boss said that this was "an oddly specific number" and she'd never experienced that before.
- noirbot 4y agoDid you have a particular reason for requesting that number? Or just a bargaining tactic. Would you have been ok if they just rounded it to a clean number?
- exegete 4y agoFrom the article: >That said, he warns that a bid too precise may make the bidder look suspicious, or even ridiculous, to the recipient. Bidding $1.03 million for a house is one thing. Bidding $1,033,235.83 is another. >If a bid is too precise, it may strike as strategic to the recipient, rather than being driven by superior information,” Keloharju says. “This may lead the recipient to rethink whether the bid is really informed.” So I think $153k is an ok level of precision. $153,900 is starting to be “too precise”. $150k is definitely too round. It’s all a personal judgement call on how precise one should go but I think it’s easy to see what is too extreme (with cents in it in this case).
- phendrenad2 4y agoI think narrow ranges "145k-150k") are good, because it looks like you put more thought into it.
- jghn 4y agoNot quite,but after reading about this effect years ago I started asking for $153,000 instead of $150,000 or $155,000. I can never know for sure that this is the reason I got what I asked for, but I've always gotten what I asked for.
- bumby 4y agoNot to the penny, but usually to a non-normative hundred. So maybe something like $153,800 instead of $150k. That has worked surprisingly well for me (someone who didn't know how to negotiate well early in my career and it probably set me back quite a bit).