Name: How to Ask Your Boss For a Raise
Uploaded: 2024-05-02T13:00:38.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How to Ask Your Boss For a Raise' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How to Ask Your Boss For a Raise' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-02. Transcript available.

What do you say to like employees who want to talk to their employer about
getting a raise or getting like what is a good way to approach an employer
about that kind of stuff like you know a lot of stuff in business like that are
relationship things if you'll just switch the moccasins a minute where they're
moccasins so if you weren't if you were the supervisor or you're the owner of
the business how would you want someone to talk to you about it and so I mean I
really appreciate when our folks come in and go hey you know I'm making this
and you know here's two or three positions in the marketplace that are more for
the same position and so you know what I'm curious about is what I can do to be
worth what those people are doing because I want to be worth more to the
business and if they say it that way oh man yeah I'm like yeah okay here yeah
well matter of fact you know we probably have overlooked that we probably just
need to give you a raise but but maybe yeah maybe there's three things you need
to do to level up to be ready to do that and so it's an opportunity for growth
and those kinds of things because really this you know if you're an employee
your team has to make you more or save you more than they cost or by definition
you go out of business mathematically yeah and so if you'll look at that as a
team member it's like how can I add more value than I cost or save more money
and depend on what they're working on but then I cost then you know it's kind
of a no-brainer unless the employer's a jerk and greedy or whatever but most
employers are just trying to figure it out too
we're just trying to go especially small business people I mean we love our
people they're family to us and you know we want to we want to help them win we
want their kids to go to college we want to be with them 20 years and watch
them grow up you know we want all that we want good stuff for you but we also
don't want to close because we overpaid everybody and didn't make any stinking
money yeah so then everybody loses so you've got this balance and employers got
that stress they're carrying so if you'll keep that in mind when you're asking
how can I add value
that's more than I cost or save you more than I cost then like I've got a lady
in logistics I mean she saved us several hundred thousand dollars with contract
negotiations with our logistics people on the shipping more than she cost
wow well it's easy to say yeah you're worth that that's a no-brainer I like
sharing with her I mean we always tell people around here if you kill it and
drag it home you know go out there kill it drag it to the cave I'll share it
with you let's figure it out you know you got you bring in a million dollars in
revenue we we can probably divvy that up we can probably figure out something
to do with that yeah you know I don't I don't need to take it all home but also
I don't need to give it all to one person either so we figure this out and you
can do that when you're adding value and so just look at it that way not
like on the other hand I had a guy come in years ago long time ago and he'd
been to school half his life he had more degrees than a thermometer and he just
you know he said hey man you know at these big companies people they got this
many degrees they make certain amount of money and he said I'm not making that
here we need to adjust my income and I said well dude I'm sorry this is small
business your raise is effective when you are
you are I mean we don't pay you for degrees we pay you for bringing in more
than you cost and and right now you're not so you know he left and went and
worked for corporate America where they'll pay him for those degrees and they
can get away with that but small business can't do that yeah yeah what do you
say like what is some of the ad or even just like to to get a little bit more
minute with it like what are just say somebody's out there listening like man I
feel like I want to talk to my boss about a raise or I want to how do they
what are some should they tell themselves certain things to prep themselves to
go in there if they should it just be comfortable because it's just a space
where a lot of people get really uncomfortable I think you know yeah you know
anytime I'm in a situation like that where I'm uncomfortable where there's
conflict or a negotiation if you want to call it that
um I found that the more options I have the calmer I am and so if there's only
one thing I mean if I don't get this I'm dead but if you got like six people
wanting to hire you
and you know you want to go in and go uh hey I you know I'd like to stay and I
like it here and I like you I want to work but I got all this other stuff your
body language changes you know you're yeah you're not you don't have to be cocky
about it you don't have swagger in or something but but you can come in with a
lot of confidence if you've got options but if you've got it all dialed in it's
just one thing and if I don't get this one thing the whole thing's over and you
add this drama then you tighten up you can feel that energy in there too
yeah and it changes the changes the conversation your vocal cords change even
yeah yeah and there can be things even if it's not financial you could get well
can you is there a possibility that my car could be paid or insurance I think
there's always different possibilities of things you can ask for even that yeah
you know yeah I mean depending on how the business is structured and what's
going on there's a lot of different things you can do and uh to help people and
do different things and sometimes we've had situations where someone was just
in a financial situation you know they got in trouble and
and they come in we sit down we go over their budget and we go okay number one
we're going to get you in a situation so you're never here again with your
budget how you're handling your money but then number two you know your house
is four payments behind so we're going to catch the house up and so that's just
like a one-time thing that's not a permanent raise because the raise wasn't the
problem their mismanagement at home was the problem
ah I see what you're saying
so you know we help them fix the mismanagement and then we catch them up now
they're at even now they can run
yeah
yeah