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I once did an even more extreme version of this. I showed up with a contract for a new job that would give me a 30% raise and an opportunity to work from home as much as I want. I told my boss to match that offer or I would sign it.

He took a few days to decide and made me an offer that was significantly worse, so now I have a new job, more money and haven’t seen the inside of a corporate office in months. My old team has been completely dissolved because the old crew left faster than they could train replacements.

I did this and it worked wonderfully. I was the only employee trained in performing the job I did and the only person with access to the system within which I worked. This is after 6+ months of begging someone else to be trained on these systems.

Plot twist: I actually had an interview to go to and received a call offering the position to me while my boss was talking with me about what was going on. I politely ended that conversation and put in my two weeks notice. They practically begged me to stay on for one month and train another employee in the data system I managed. I refused. 😊

No one clapped, though. They were actually really upset.

I did a similar thing except it was a real interview I went to and then I took that job.

And then everyone clapped

The next week he got ~~the raise~~ replaced

I don't even ask for raises anymore. My employer either just gives me regular raises or I just go elsewhere. If I have to ask then even if they do give me a raise it still means that they wanted to rip me off. I don't work for people that want to rip me off.

My job isn't to haggle, my job is to fix shit. If they want to make me haggle then I'll just go work for someone who doesn't.

Probably not going to work if you have a non office job, as in an hourly employee, which are the majority of people.

I recently did the WFH version of this. It didn't work.

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