unpretentious way or do you want to do in t. in a pretentious way. you have to go in there having done your homework. tell the company what you really accomplished in the past year. the money you made them. the customers you brought in. or maybe, you know, how you helped a merger or you worked 800 hours a week formonths to bw deal. that s the kind of stuff that companies are very very graduate find and will probably reward you. okay. can we role play for a second? absolutely. i m the boss. you are the employee. give me the language. you want a raise. go. basically i would say to you i have been working regular hard here during the year as you know. yes, you have. i would like you to be aware of what i believe i have accomplished for the company in the past year. which i think we can quantify. and then you lay out exactly what you have done for them and how much money you saved the company or how much money you made the company. when you do that and it can t be refuted i t
tell you? i think it s better not to demand anything, unless and that goes to one of our later points unless you have a new job lined up with another company then you have a lot of leverage. you can make your own demands. do you worry about their calling your bluff. not necessarily. if you have done a good job, why shouldn t the company reward you especially around christmas time they really should. stephan sack. mr. roger ailes look out on monday. you will be getting a phone call. i want to see if people want to go to my web site because i have a lot of great information they can go to stephan sack.com and really the most important thing is knowing, asserting yourself and same thing with bonuses real quick. a lot of people are going to get fired at the end of the year. they may have expected a bonus and the companies may not pay it don t just allow the companies to do that. that s for past work. you have already earned it. go back in and ask for it. coming up on the sh
people have, you know, i think people are kind of friendly about that. and if you need some advice, they will help you. you say timing is everything. your second point. so, if you are a wall matter employee and it s black friday, your company s biggest day of the year do you want to put the pressure on. no. i make light of it, seriously, is it the best time when it s crunch time for your employer. no. or no? when is the best time. you don t want to do it when like you want to speak to your boss is about to leave because his wife is giving birth. you know, is he not really interested in talking. it s got to be in a quiet down period. you know, you have got to figure out and maybe even go in before and say when can we talk? you know, what s convenient for you? i would like to address a couple of issues about my performance and possibly let s talk a little bit about, you know, my next year s plan and a raise possibly. not on election day. of course not. that was a misfir
pasko retired earlier this year so she is now free to speak out about a company she says repeatedly violates environmental laws. from my perspective, bp has, for a long time, been a company that is interested in profits first and foremost. safety and health and environment are subjugated to profit making. i do not think that has changed. in con youngal hearings after the fatal explosion at bp s texas refinery in 2005, lawmakers asked bp s then ceo, did workers warn about safety issues at the plant? he said they had not. then there were questions about whether they feared retaliation for speaking up. bottom line, after pressure from lawmakers, bp opened an independent ombudsman s office to manage and hear the safety concerns of its workers, run by a former federal judge, just not here in alaska.
the government and bp, with the hurricane approaching today, we wanted to know what the plan actually was for dealing with a hurricane in the gulf. we asked the unified command and the admiral we spoke to would not tell us, would not give us any details. he said the plan is constantly evolving and therefore constantly going out of date. therefore, he wouldn t release it. as for bp, new allegations that the company yet again has been making it hard for independent scientists to do their jobs, to study what is really happening out there in the gulf. i say yet again because we have certainly seen this before, haven t we? bp, you ll remember, didn t release the video of the leak until weeks into the disaster and only after being pressured to do so by members of congress. charged with measuring the flow rate, how much flow was leaking from the well and he told us bp held back high resolution video from him and didn t let them put sensors down under water to help them measure the leak direct