Re: Unpaid?/ Police! There's been a robbery!

[James Childs <JChilds -at- ATL -dot- CARREKER -dot- COM>]

Dear God, man, that's highway robbery! Not only should you be updating your
resume as we speak, you need to be DEMANDING a raise! They must be laughing
their heads off at how cheap they've got you. Unless this is your absolute
first job doing anything with the word "writing" in the job description, you
need to be making at LEAST $20/hr.

I've got two words of advice for you: Get out. Fast. Don't walk. Run.
They're bleeding you, dude.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Spiteri [SMTP:DSPITERI -at- TUC -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 1:39 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      FWD: Unpaid? -Reply
>
> As an online Help writer you can command up to $50-60/hr as an
> independent.=
>  You do the math... (Also read the other posts) The answer is Yes!
>
> >>> "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> 06/25/98 12:00pm >>>
> Name withheld upon request. Please reply on list.
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> I have worked for my present company for about 10 months. I do not
> have a technical writing degree, but I do have a college degree
> (B.A.,liberal arts). I work at home and thus do not have direct
> supervision (the home office is in another state). I live in
> Washington Sate. I write internal end user documentation (software).
> This includes using Word and FrontPage to create printed and
> intranet/Web docs. I make $10 an hour. Am I underpaid?
>
> Let me make it clear that I like my job. However, since my year
> aniversery is coming up soon I want to ask for a raise. Am I justified
> in doing so? Any pointers? Should I move on? At what point does
> working for a good company/boss stop outweighing money?
>
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