Using office politics to upgrade your salary – part 2

by Shadowmaster on 19/01/10 at 7:13 pm

Hello there office sur­vivor, it’s time for chap­ter num­ber #2.

when you want to upgrade your salary you might come across dif­fi­cul­ties as com­pa­nies some­times tend not to give what you want. In this arti­cle we are going to deal with the 2nd approach, the “get it” approach.

Get it Approach

this step can be done after you failed with the “Ask for it” approaches ( http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2010/01/using-office-politics-to-upgrade-your-salary-%E2%80%93-part-1/ ), and it can be achieved in few dif­fer­ent ways, as some of them don’t require any act­ing or office pol­i­tics tac­tics and some do. Remem­ber to go with the ones you feel more com­fort­able of accord­ing to your strength as you know your­self bet­ter then every­one else.

The sim­ple way

The sim­ple way is to look around and leave when the right oppor­tu­nity is knock­ing on your door, in this spe­cific case you can com­bine it with one of the com­pen­sa­tion tac­tics and have your com­pen­sa­tions (take in mind the com­pen­sa­tion issue is dif­fer­ent between com­pa­nies and is accord­ing to your con­tract with them).

In some cases (before you start­ing the com­pen­sa­tion tac­tics) the man­age­ment hears about your wishes to leave (even if you still didn’t find any­thing yet) and it will try to keep you in the office, hear them up, as when you leave and using the com­pen­sa­tion tac­tics it usu­ally means you shot the door behind you.

The Risky  way

There is another “Get it” approach but it takes some time and could be lit­tle risky but as a true office sur­vival vet­eran noth­ing is too risky if you know how to play your cards right.

As time passes by notice if some­one from your team wishes to leave (most chances that if you are a friend of that per­son he’ll share his feel­ings with you before he’ll announce his leav­ing), you are hav­ing a full house in your hand right now, as this tac­tic requires some act­ing by your part;

go and announce you are going to leave the office very close to his announce­ment (same day as him, or the day after). Now you have put the office’s man­age­ment in the cor­ner as they can’t han­dle the absent of two mem­bers from the same team in such a short notice and they will start a race to con­vince one of you to stay.

Your col­league has found a new place so con­vinc­ing him will be hard, but you on the other hand have only a nom­i­na­tion for the Oscar for your per­for­mance (as they don’t know that) and con­vinc­ing you will be “eas­ier”, but remem­ber — play it lit­tle bit hard to get what you want.

The key word in this case is not to be greedy but to ask rea­son­able con­di­tions. This “get it” 2nd approach can be risky and you have to be aware of the con­se­quences there are times man­age­ment won’t do a thing to keep you and you might find your­self look­ing for a new job.

Con­clu­sion

The “get it” approach is there for all of us, but it’s hard to use it cor­rectly as when it comes to the moment of truth not all of us can han­dle the kitchen’s heat and we might break and won’t go with it. The only thing you have to remem­ber when you try this approach is that it’s your money and if your office can’t afford to keep you there, maybe it’s a good thing to go out and find an office that can.

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