It is cute if it comes from an eleven year old sibling, but I don’t think it would hit the same coming from a forty-something year old spouse.
If I thought it would work, I would be doing this every day. My husband just increased efficiency of a process by ten times. Where is his bonus? Where is his raise? He deserves something, ya’ skinflints
I did plant engineering for years and helped many of my customers improve their productivity and reduce costs. I got the orders for the instruments needed to make it happen, but the engineers I helped got incentives. In one instance, each of the 6 engineers in the department got $6000 for an automation project. In another instance, a worker on the line at a Ford foundry showed the management a way to save a ton of money on scrap they were throwing away. They gave him a Ford Mustang as a reward.
Hopefully your husband gets some recognition, and if not some bonus, then perhaps a promotion to a higher paying job.
My mom use to say the squeaky wheel gets the oil. But then I heard somewhere else that the nail that sticks up gets hammered. So there's probably some healthy medium there
You understand that the manager is not solely responsible for promotions, right? Companies have policies in place set by HR and managers have budgets. That's why it's easier to find a new job that pays more instead of relying on where you currently work.
I've spent 40 years working in large and small corporations. Not once have I ever seen a company where HR makes promotion decisions or an HR policy that would provide for HR to make such a decision.
I've worked in many companies where promotion requests are sent to HR for approval. Also, HR generally implements salary ranges. Also, HR has certain policies in place e.g. when promotions can happen, the percentage a salary can be increased by, etc. Managers work closely with HR to come up with salary and job specs. Managers are not solely responsible for your promotion or pay rise.
I work in the tech industry. I am a manager of my team / department for my product(s). I can't do shit when it comes to promotions. I am not actually paying those people. My stakeholders (product owners) do - and they do it only by proxy, too.
I can talk to my stakeholder and tell them I want to plan in more budget because I want to give a raise. They might agree.
The people who actually pay (the C-Suite), sure as fuck won't have to agree. HR, and parts of the C-Suite have HR functions for this very reason, has ALL the salary data. They have to approve it, considering things like "is it fair towards others in same positions?" or "do we (the company) really want to spend that money? Do we think it's worth it?" etc.
HR will also conduct surveys with other colleagues to get a better picture of the situation, talk to all neccessary stakeholders in this regard etc.
Maybe /u/Asangkt358, depsite having 40 years of work experience, never actually made it to any "significant" position to learn how the company actually operates in the background.
Only because a manager wants to give you a raise, doesn't mean that they are giving you the raise. It's NOT their money.
This is obviously a lie. HR professionals only have 2 joys in their lives. Making employees miserable and the headpat they get from admin for doing so.
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u/deamonmist 1d ago
As an HR professional, I can confirm that we occasionally cave to constant, repeated requests.