How do you guys handle it when a relatively good employee asks for an outrageous raise? I just had a guy who is being paid $18/hour ask me to be paid $28/hour. He’s a decent worker, but really not particularly skilled at anything. I have much more skilled employees that make less than what he’s asking for. This person does mostly odd jobs throughout the business. He said he came up with that number because represents a 10% raise for each year he has been here, though the math clearly doesn’t work on that; he would be at less than $24/hour even if I had given him a 10% raise each year.
I agree he deserves a raise, but that amount is crazy. I can hire much more skilled and competent people at that rate. I’m somewhat indifferent to whether he stays or goes, but I don’t see him really quitting as he and my office manager are a couple, and they like to commute to work together. I can handle things if both of them quit. Life would be less fun for a bit, it’s not the end of the world. I don’t see any real scenario where they will be otherwise able to work together like they do now.
Don’t ask on here. Most are anti work people and will bash you for thinking anything other than what the employee wants is just plain wrong and he deserves it. If you think it’s outrageous then it is. Only you know what that job is worth to you and having to find someone else and train them. No one is getting 10% raises every year. Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable and that’s just not the case.
It’s really weird how much of /r/antiwork hangs out here. But I guess they can’t just go yell at the people who own the big businesses, so we’re a good enough proxy for the evils of capitalism