The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 05, 2015

So Thornapple just quit his job?!!

Should have punched him in his moneybags!

I hear Brutus is about to become the Greeks’ next negotiator.

Did Obama fire him too?

He didn’t actually say he was quitting. He just said Goodbye,like you say when you are leaving for the day.

Guess Thornapple doesn’t pack heat.

Ultimatums very seldom provide the desired results and leave the need to how to gracefully not carry it out.

Actually, Brutus was right. Just because your boss isn’t willing to pay you more doesn’t mean that you don’t deserve it. You should never ask for a raise if you’re not ready to quit if you don’t get it. And, for that matter, your boss should be expecting you to find a new job and be looking for your replacement.

Two truths here, 1. Businesses often over look the value of current employees and how long (and how much) it costs to train a replacement, especially if they can’t keep people and its a revolving door.

My former job, they were spending millions a year on the training budget, but my direct supervisor said they won’t pay more cause training comes out of the training department. She is responsible for her budget in her department and she don’t care how high the training budget goes she isn’t giving anyone raises….big picture would have saved the company money to pay people more and reduce the training budget.

2. My current employer will only give raises if you get a written quote at another job willing to pay more, but problem is to get that you have to agree to go and if you turn it down to keep your current job with more money you just burned that bridge forever.

Managers love this approach, they pay if needed and know that if you do stay you can never leave your current job for the one you just burned the bridge on.