Sunday, May 19, 2013

So, here I am, at 10:30 on a Sunday morning ...




... sitting in the office, getting paid time-and-a-half to blog.  Oh, and to research comparable salaries for my position, so that when the boss finally does manage to wander in so we can get our work done, and after the work is finally finished, I can hit him up for a raise.

"Don't do it!," you say.  "The economy sucks right now!," you say.  "There are lots of people looking for work!"

Yep.  It does. There are.  And I haven't had a raise in an embarrassingly long time, and the boss has been such a pain in the a** lately that I'm not happy here ANYway, and my research shows that I could walk out that door and get a higher-paying job in fairly short order should it prove necessary, and

I'm going for it. 

If the boss ever actually shows, that is.

Wish me luck!



8 comments:

Zella said...

Good luck !! You DO deserve it, and it sounds like it's long overdue. Keeping my fingers crossed for ya !

Becs said...

Best of luck! Let us know how it turns out!

rockygrace said...

... uh oh ... the boss and I just got into a big discussion about Social Security, and also whether Obama is a Muslim (!) (the boss, I swear to God, says he is; I say um no, actually, he isn't)... this is what I'm dealing with here, folks.

Let's see if I can turn this ship around.

Anonymous said...

Tell him it's his patriotic duty to give you a raise....

- bridgett

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/14/opinion/la-oe-garson-why-you-should-ask-for-a-raise-20130514

rockygrace said...

Survey SAYS ...

... he took the amount that I had in mind and doubled it.

I'll be back tomorrow with the deets. And bridgett, I can't wait to check out that article.

James P. said...

Attention Area Second-Hand Shops who are having trouble moving especially wacky items: Rocky has a raise and is surely on the way there.

Becs said...

Congrats!!

rockygrace said...

Ginny, you got that right. Actually, I think I'd better buy a spare pair of glasses.

and Becs, thanks!