why wait
to the fucking new year? Unless they have policy against raises during the year, do it now. If nothing else, you'll find out how valued you really are (i.e. not very) - they'll say one of three things in all honesty - No/Let's review in x time/ OK. What's the worst that can happen
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 16:58, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

But the point is
if they don't offer more you leave straight away... which means you have to start looking for work straight away.
( djtrialprice, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 17:01, Reply)

that
is true.

He could ask, and look for new work at the same time though
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 17:05, Reply)

The reason I'm waiting
Is because Big Boss seems to think that as a company we're likely to under at any second, even though we're busier than we have been in years!

That would be his excuse to me. If my (fair) response was this -
"Ok then, so why have you just hired a new person, gave someone a large payrise (deserved, don't get me wrong) and elected to start a new branch of the company again?" - he'd bring up mistakes I have made in the past. Fair enough, but when one thing he calls up is the fact I got a disciplinary this year for 'not reporting sick days'* it winds me the fuck up!

* He claims he knows for a fact that I was off for more days than I marked. Interestingly, no one else could be certain, but his intuition was enough for him. He decided to extend my Final Written Warning for 9 months, for the second time. (I deserved the original warning, nearly cost us a very good account. The second one is because he felt I wasn't working hard enough, despite evidence to the contrary.)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 17:11, Reply)