YAYYYYY!!!
Feb. 14th, 2012 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ricevermicelliI got a job! A job I want! With good benefits!
And! They initially didn't offer me quite as much money as I wanted, so I asked for more, and they said yes. Straight off. No hesitation, no talking it over, just "sure, we'll send the new offer letter right away." (And I have the new offer letter now.)
I am, obviously, very pleased.
And! They initially didn't offer me quite as much money as I wanted, so I asked for more, and they said yes. Straight off. No hesitation, no talking it over, just "sure, we'll send the new offer letter right away." (And I have the new offer letter now.)
I am, obviously, very pleased.
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Date: 2012-02-14 09:12 pm (UTC)--Beth
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Date: 2012-02-14 09:58 pm (UTC)good luck!
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Date: 2012-02-14 10:48 pm (UTC)I continue to boggle at the salary negotiation process. Mine wasn't quite that straightforward, but close, and this is a thing that pays off for the rest of your career. How is it reasonable that something so enormously valuable gets treated so casually?
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Date: 2012-02-15 06:05 am (UTC)I will step in and put my "Jon" hat on here and say, "Bilateral monopoly." [aside: the wikipedia article on that is way too sparse, but I'm not going to fix it. Tonight.]
There's pretty much one buyer and one seller in this auction. The buyer has a range that they're happy with, and the seller has a range that they're happy with, and the math works out so that any price in the overlap range has a mathematically equivalent utility (happiness) function.
As long as one side doesn't try to push the other side out of their happy range, lots of solutions are possible. In some sense, this is why you always want the other side to pick a number first, just in case it's better than the worst-case of your happy range.
Because they had to go first with a number, they picked the low end of their happy range, she responded with the lowest number in her happy range, it was still in their happy range, and both parties agreed to be happy.
--Beth
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Date: 2012-02-15 08:15 pm (UTC)I like my friends. :)
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Date: 2012-02-15 02:30 am (UTC)Congrats!
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Date: 2012-02-15 03:53 am (UTC)(And +1 on negotiating the higher salary you wanted.)
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Date: 2012-02-15 07:09 pm (UTC)Mazal tov! May it be everything you hope for.
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