Salary Negotiation

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My sister started a new job today and the agency she got it through sent a box of 12 muffins for her to share with her new colleagues. There are 3 people in her office today. Four each!

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

that's frightening.

unless she has a job as a muffin-taster, right enough.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I want a job as Mädchen's sister!

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Wouldn't it be bad form to take in a bunch of muffins for your colleagues if you were joining a muffin-tasting outfit? They would surely see a plate full of muffins as additional, unpaid work. What agency would be so short-sighted?

Tim (Tim), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

(alternatively, I just want muffins. Actually I have muffins. But free muffins > muffins I bought myself. And in fact they aren't muffins, they are chocolate covered flapjack things)

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

::drools::

Why isn't today Krispy Kreme day?

Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

:-D

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Are you being offered muffins? Congratulations!

StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Amazing, really.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Ooh, I just read about it on your ponderpage - actual congratulations this time!

StanM, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Too kind, thanks!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

what's the best strategy when you are facing financial disaster?

lowball em
highball em
"Whatever you can give me."

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link

What's the situation? I hate when this is part of initial interviews.

maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link

the situation as in position? assistant production editor

I am presently in a gig-job where I can't pay both my rent and my onerous medical bills

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link

As in your relationship to them, how this is coming up. Are you renewing or something? I just bump around salaried desk jobs and won't be much help to you. Good luck with it.

maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link

I would be a new hire at an academic institution

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link

Oh. And they want people they are interviewing to tell them salary expectation, with no dollar figures being on their ad? That's the worst. I'm certain I've been screened out of jobs I probably didn't want anyway for answering too high. All I can say is give some reasonable estimate of what that position ought to pay. good luck

maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link


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