NTTGPR - Promotions

EmeJay · September 2013

As I mentionned in the FFFC, I should have my yearly evaluatino this afternoon or Monday and I want to ask for a promotion.

Tell me your story! Did you ever ask for a promotion? How did it go?

von1976 · September 2013

Not a promotion, but a raise that I was promised. My boss at the time did a little hemming and hawing and said they wouldn't be able to give it to me.

I began my job search and quit shortly thereafter for another job that paid me 83% more.

I did not feel at all bad about that. Not one little bit.

EmeJay · September 2013

Joy2611 - Why do you need more money anyway? It's not like you went to college for 42 years and have One Millioooon Dollars of student loans!
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jnnfrrose6 · September 2013

Not sure if you've done it yet because I haven't looked over there today, but you should post on the Working Moms board. They'll have plenty of advice on this one.

EmeJay · September 2013

jnnfrrose6 said:

Not sure if you've done it yet because I haven't looked over there today, but you should post on the Working Moms board. They'll have plenty of advice on this one.

Great idea, thanks! I'm not very adventurous out of my comfortable board

AmyC925 · September 2013

I just received my promotion Sept 1. I asked for it by compiling my set goals vs what I actually obtained and a list of all of the duties I have taken on and projects I've worked on. I went into my one on one with this and told my boss I've already been performing the higher position for a while and gave him the examples. I think that mixed with him knowing I'm trying to move up and stay there for my career made him agree.

Laurelyn2012 · September 2013

Its been two years since I asked for my last raise and I'm struggling to ask for another for the last month. I hate bookkeeping and seeing where the books stands makes it that much harder to ask. Especially when you know the money isn't in the greatest spot. It also sucks to see the guys in the field getting raises left right and center since they have no idea how we financially stand.

sister13 · September 2013

One time I went in with a proposal for a new position I was proposing to be created, and a $10,000 raise. I got the raise, but not the new position. I was glad for the money, but really pissed about the position. A year later they gave the position I proposed to a guy who was extremely underqualified. Anyway, I got a new job a year later making about 25% more.

Someone once told me that money is not a motivator, and I thought it sounded like crap at the time, but I realized after that experience that it is true. I would have been much happier with the new position and not the money.

At the new job, I haven't had an opportunity for a promotion, but I have advocated several times for significantly higher salary and have been successful. It is always nerve-wracking!

WillCMyInk · September 2013

I was all ready to ask for a raise at my annual review this year and about a month before it we had a meeting where they announced that all administrative salaries were frozen until further notice.

If it weren't for the fact that I'm fairly certain MH and I will be moving in less than a year I would be gone. I'm still going to ask for something once I graduate with my Master's in December and depending on how our order picking goes I might leave then if they don't give me anything.

EmeJay · September 2013

sister13 said:

One time I went in with a proposal for a new position I was proposing to be created, and a $10,000 raise. I got the raise, but not the new position. I was glad for the money, but really pissed about the position. A year later they gave the position I proposed to a guy who was extremely underqualified. Anyway, I got a new job a year later making about 25% more.
Someone once told me that money is not a motivator, and I thought it sounded like crap at the time, but I realized after that experience that it is true. I would have been much happier with the new position and not the money.
At the new job, I haven't had an opportunity for a promotion, but I have advocated several times for significantly higher salary and have been successful. It is always nerve-wracking!

I've read somewhere that the happiness that comes with a raise doesn't last very long.

I couldn't care less about the money (well, that's a lie). I really want a promotion because I'm sick and tired of having a junior position that means that I'm not included in the managers meetings, decisions and other stuff while I do this job anyway.

tealowl · September 2013

I've never asked for a raise. I'm a CMA, so I've always worked at places where your pay is pretty much dictated. It's not like I'm in a high pay career either!

When I was laid off in 2003, I sent my resume to a local hospital and requested at least $10/hr. on my resume (which was what I made), and this lady in HR said, "No one here is going to pay that much for a medical assistant." I ended up getting hired there for a little over $10 and worked there for 5 years. Suck it, HR lady!

When I wanted to leave that job in 2010, I sent my resume over to an ortho office with my current pay on my resume. I had two interviews and when she called me to offer me the position she said,

"I'm sure you know that doctor offices don't pay as much as hospitals do."
"I was not aware of that, I'm sorry."
"Well, we'd love to have you and we can pay you $10 an hour."

I literally snorted laughing, which was really unprofessional, but I was offended! I said, "I'm really sorry, but I used to make that amount over 7 years ago, and what I'm asking now isn't even a living wage. I cannot accept that small of pay when I have 9 years of experience".

I ended up working for the other local hospital and I've been here for 3 years. You automatically get a cost of living raise yearly, which is just change, and then you get between 1 and 4% pay raise based on your productivity. I got 4% the first two years but this year I only got 1%. I was miffed. New bosses, so I guess they didn't really know me. Hopefully next year I get 4% again, I've been busting my ass on a bunch of reports.

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