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Personally, as someone who has been a supervisor who would have been the one to take that question, yes, I think it comes off as sounding whiny and greedy. I would think less of an employee who asked for that, and I would take it into consideration the next year when doing the year's review.
HOWEVER, with that said, it does depend on your industry. If you are in an industry like sales, or law, where aggressive negotiating skills are highly prized, that would be an entire different issue. In that case, your boss might think MORE of you for going after more.
ok, im going to give the opinion as someone involved in these decisions. we dont have a set time for peoples raises, so generally we wouldnt. but if someone was given some kind of verbal commitment regarding timeframe and it didnt get implemented until later, we would make up the lost time. thats why i would say that i raises are always given exactly on anniversary date, then it would make sense to cover that time. but it wouldnt be required and may depend on current market conditions.
Thanks everyone.
i sent an email to my boss asking her to essentially disregard my request to back date, (i basically didn't want her to mention anything to the CEO because of the reasons you all just mentioned). She said that it's too late and that she's already gone ahead and back dated it without mentioning anything to the CEO.
so....i guess that issue is behind me now. Knowing what i know now, i probably shouldn't have asked her to back date in the first place....should have let it go....even though we're talking about $2000 in extra cash.
Thanks everyone.
i sent an email to my boss asking her to essentially disregard my request to back date, (i basically didn't want her to mention anything to the CEO because of the reasons you all just mentioned). She said that it's too late and that she's already gone ahead and back dated it without mentioning anything to the CEO.
so....i guess that issue is behind me now. Knowing what i know now, i probably shouldn't have asked her to back date in the first place....should have let it go....even though we're talking about $2000 in extra cash.
its good if you have a manager that you have a good relationship with and can ask questions before going to the big cheese. a lot of times employees will come to me because im less intimidating than the big guy. many of the times, i cant help them and must suggest that they need to ask the big guy. but i also would advise them if i think its a good idea or not, if they ask me.
Every company I have worked for or my husband has worked for has back dated raise ACCORDING TO COMPANY POLICY. That would be the key point. If the company policy is that reviews happen on your anniversary date, your raise should be back dated to that day. One year DH was in the midst of a huge computer change at work and had zero time to do his review. He finally got his review the following anniversary date and got back dated pay for a year plus the new raise. That was a pretty nice paycheck .
it depends on how the company does raises. if they always do it based on your anniversary year, then they would probably give you a check for the time period covering where you would have normally gotten the check.
Does your company have some sort of employee handbook that outlines the annual review process? If there is already a process in place, check your experience against the book and if it's not being followed, raise the timliness issue with your boss and/or the owner.
If there isn't a written process, quietly ask around:
Do you have a coworker who works for another manager whom you could ask about the timing of his reviews? If the other manager gave reviews & raises in their anniversary months and you just now got yours due to your manager's slack, that's unfair/preferential to the other team. Or does someone else report to your same manager whom you could ask? If your whole team is getting annual reviews on their anniversaries or whenever the manager gets to it?
Whateve you find out, if you decide to raise the issue, broach the subject around your review and wanting timely feedback. Bring up money later.
FWIW, I work for a Fortune 500 company and promotions are back-dated all the time. You may find out on Oct 14 that you got promoted and they'll back-date and pay for a Oct 1 promotion raise. Reviews must happen by a deadline. All bonus and annual raise info is communicated to all eligible employees within a 1 month window, but the whole company has the same effective date. FWIW, our year ends Jan 31 and annual raises & bonuses are paid in the 2nd quarter- quite a bit later.
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