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You have 1 more month of summer left to get that counter offer. Go fishing. And when you have smth solid - you will not need to bluff.
Getting an offer doesn't mean you have to accept it ;) and if you pose yourself to your manager as ultimately annoyed by the situation, they may be concerned not to call ut a bluff.
Start whining yesterday :) -
@theKarlisK I guess it depends on a company and the mgmt. I've had an unpleasant experience with a large corp and believed their promises for ~half a year. Eventually, I got an offer elsewhere and they still claimed "we cannot make this happen just yet.. Stick around for another couple of months" (basically the exact phrase they used all that time).
f*ck it. I bit the bullet and left that office of unkept and uncertain promises. Couldn't be happier :) Ever since no one's been dangling a carrot in front of me.
But yeah, it probably depends on a situation and a company/mgmt.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Long story short I joined this company as a junior after 1.5 years of a break from development. Before that I worked for almost 3 years in the required stack. We agreed that if I do well after 3 months probation period I can ask for a raise.
It turned out that Im doing better than half of my team so 1 week before probation was about to end, I put in my raise request. Got nothing but strong feedback, even managed to burn myself out a couple times.
Now since the request 11 weeks passed. Our HQ which has the final say about the raise is overseas. Im getting excuses about summer: allegedly because of summer some people in the appproval chain have vacations so this process is taking a long time. This is the excuse they are giving to me.
Right now Im getting really pissed off and resentful because this drag is becoming unnacceptable. Also being in a new scrum team filled with total juniors complicates everything a lot. Im not having the best time here. But at the same time I dont have any savings actually am in debts and currenty barely am able to survive paycheck to paycheck to I cant just quit on the spot.
Had I known that they will drag this out that much, I would have applied to other places and presented them a counter offer. Or at least bluffed from the start in order to speed the raise proccess up.
Should I give ultimatum to my manager?
Im hesitant to do that because up until now we had a decent relationship and he seems like a nice guy so I dont want to rock the boat.
Or should I bluff about having a counter offer, so he would speed things up? But what happens if he asks me to forward him evidence of my received offer?
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