Part of our admin training at work this year was the idea of “thank, don’t apologize”. Say “thank you for helping with [x]”, not “sorry you had to do [x]”. Thanking people makes them feel appreciated, while apologizing makes something (either your actions or the job) look bad, which doesn’t encourage positive feelings.
At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.
They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.
So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.
I got what I asked for.
If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.
You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.
Because this is crucially important
Except for the fact that 90% of the time you are under contract not to talk about your salary otherwise the company can sue you. Every job I’ve had I’ve had to sign that I won’t discuss my pay with other employees otherwise my employment is terminated and the company will take legal action.
I’ve got a paper to write about consumerism…what are yalls thoughts?
In my experience, some people will value buying something just for social recognition while simultaneously look down at those who dare to present themselves in unique ways. Some will attach their life aspirations to very arbitrary consumerist concepts. Like maybe it’s because I’m not originally from the states but I can never understand why having a Dream Car is such a big deal. Like it’s a machine that takes you places! It’s not that deep!
I definitely agree that Western standards of success are far more materialistic than in other places. That’s why I feel the gap between the rich and the poor is SO HUGE. and it’s crazy because the life of these goods (or just “””stuff”””) is so short-lived. Like a lot of the stuff we buy, we use it for 6 months at most and then just discard it. So did it give us satisfaction or status in the first place? It’s all so systemic and corrupt
The entire concept is marketed as a necessity to the public, which adds to it’s brainwashing qualities. Like we are conditioned to believe we MUST acquire as much stuff as we can in order to be happy.
