Should I ask for a raise?
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Anonymous
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I have been with my weekend employers for nearly two years. I have never asked for a raise nor have they offered. They are a very wealthy and high-profile couple and everything goes through a business manager (who cuts all of the employees checks - there are four nannies, two housekeepers, cook and gardener). I will need to put my request in writing to both my MB as well as a CC to their business manager. I plan to ask for my raise a few weeks prior to my 2 year anniversary (mid-July).
I only plan to be with this job until the end of the year. Working weekends as well as a full-time weekday nanny job is getting to be too much for me. My weekend employers have no idea that I will be leaving. Here are is my question - is it worth even asking when I know I will be leaving in five months? Does asking for a raise have some promise of another year's commitment? I work two days for them - 12 hours each day. So it would be $48 more (gross) each week if I am given the $2 an hour raise I am requesting. TIA |
Anonymous
| Idk it seems kinda shitty to ask for a raise if you plan on leaving doon |
Anonymous
Obviously that should say soon! |
Anonymous
Why? I think a raise should have been given after the first year so this is back-pay. Yes, ask for your raise, OP. If for some reason the raise is denied you can use that as a reason why you are quitting. |
Anonymous
| No, asking for/getting a raise does not indicate a promise to stay. Just ask. |
Anonymous
| You've posted this before. Their wealthy has nothing to do with you salary and they determine your salary with how valuable they feel you are. You can ask, no harm but be prepared for a no. |
Anonymous
I think that is obvious, PP. |
Anonymous
No, I haven't posted this before. And I am prepared to leave early if I get a no. My question - admittedly poorly written - was if a request and acceptance of a raise constitutes a promise to stay for a year. Especially if I am dealing with a business manager primarily. |
Anonymous
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In all honesty, if you are actually planning on leaving this position soon, I would not ask for a raise now.
It just doesn't seem right. |
Anonymous
You have posted this before on here. You need to talk to the business manager and parents. |
Anonymous
New PP. You should have asked for an increase a year should. So what, if you're leaving in six months? |
Anonymous
If your employer gave you a raise and you knew that you were pregnant and would not be coming back, would you accept raise as well as taking paid maternity leave,? You know you would! |
Anonymous
| You work 7 days a week fulltime?! |
Anonymous
For two years! I know -- I can't quite get my head around that either! And 12 hour days on the weekend too! Maybe OP is too tired to really think this through, and that's why she's posted before. OP, I think it's fine to ask. It sounds like for whatever reason, you've decided to end this gig in December, but you're also pretty much done with it. So, if you really don't care if you lose the job, and $50/wk would make it worthwhile to you to stay for a few more months, then go for it. As a number of other people have said, you should have asked for this raise a while ago. |
Anonymous
The OP wants to ask for a raise the employers have not offered one. Different situations but shows it would be shitty to ask for a raise! |