Semi OT: Mullen and Pay Raises

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

With all the talk about Mullen staying or leaving, I figured we could discuss pay raises.
Mullen and Sexton have played the game very smart. Mullen has "options", he gets a pay raise. Works every time.

To my question, when have you used another job opportunity or potential opportunity to negotiate a pay raise? And, how often do you feel this works?

I've done it twice successfully in a three year span.

 

[57stratdawg]

I haven’t, but I’ve provided written offers to contacts / friends for them to use as leverage.

 

[kb549]

I don’t think it works quite as well in the “real world” because companies would be willing to either call your bluff or pay it and immediately start looking for your replacement (and then can you.)

In my last job where I left for more money, I found out the owner was overcosting the jobs and screwing me on commissions (I got paid on profit, not gross sales). Really sucked because I was working for crap money trying to help him grow the business. I thought I was part of the family (small family atmosphere company). The funny thing is I had told him a few weeks prior that a headhunter called me and I told the headhunter I wasn’t interested, even though it was double to triple what I was making. I told the owner because he was was trying to reduce my salary and raise my commission rate. Something looked odd on my next commission statement. Got to digging and found out he was really screwing me. No telling how long it had been going on for. I stopped digging after finding 3 months of fraud. Called the headhunter and got the job.

 

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

I haven’t, but I’ve provided written offers to contacts / friends for them to use as leverage.

This is ballsy on your friends part. They could have told your friend to hit the door.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Mullen has done some nice things for us but we have for him also. We took a chance and gave him an opportunity to be a head coach, we paid him millions while he learned(and made numerous mistakes) on the run and we gave him very generous raises as the years went by(sometimes after less than stellar results on the field). We took him and his family in as a members of our family and cherished them not as employees but as friends. If all we have to show for all this is that he will stay ONLY if we outbid everybody else for his services every year....IMO we don't have very much and I would just as soon move on and start over. I'm not saying I'm sure this is the case and I know I'm "old school" but just my 2 cents.

 

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

He gone...

 

[FQDawg]

I’ve tried it a couple times and both times, the boss basically said “I’d hate to lose you but we can’t go any higher than your current salary.” Though I should add that I work in a field where there are probably 50+ legit applicants for any open job. So there’s no real incentive for managers to pay more to keep people.