Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

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Tips must be unethical, tips that are ethical will be removed.
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ULPT: If you get paid annual leave and you're definitely going to quit your job soon, ask for a large pay rise first. When you quit, your accumulated annual leave will be paid out at the higher rate (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/unethicallifeprotips@lemmy.world

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I had 6 weeks of annual leave saved up. Im changing to a job that pays significantly more than my current salary. When my boss asked me what it would take to stay, I asked for a salary increase of 35% which he begrudingly gave me. Then I quit. This equated to an entitlement payout of about $10,700 instead of $8000 on my previous rate, an extra $2700. And the new job still pays more than the increased rate I asked for.

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[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not a smart boss or HR department. A proper way to do this would be to give you a small raise plus a generous lump sum up front, but require you to work for 1 year or pay back that lump sum if you leave before a year is up.

[–] pizza-bagel@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

An actually smart boss would pay employees you want to keep a generous salary instead of waiting to freak out when they try to leave for a better job

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