Do you prefer to find a better paying job or just request a raise at your current?

Easier to just find a better paying job. You'll get it, leave, and your employer will bitch and complain to anyone who will listen that there's just no loyalty left today.

It's better to consistently talk with your supervisor about your needs and goals. Kind of shitty on your part as an employee to not clearly communicate your need for a promotion and the value you bring.

Interview/get a better offer and take it to your employer (If you like your job) and give them an opportunity to match it. If they can't or won't, you know it's probably time to leave.

If your employer could hire someone to do your job for 20% cheaper, you better believe they would. Sometimes you have to look out for your own best interests.

You millenials jump from job to job every 6 months then complain about how y’all don’t get a pension like us boomers. We put in 40 good years at the plant and the boss man recognizes loyalty and rewards us. No wonder they’re gonna take yalls social security away

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Kind of shitty on your part as an employee to not clearly communicate your need for a promotion and the value you bring.

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It should not be up to the employee to remind the employer that they bring value to the organization. A good employer should recognize that without the employee having to beg for it.

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Basically is it easier to leave than have to force your current companies hand to pay up.

Normally doesn’t work well to request a big raise

Nb4 why not both. That’s implied if you’re on the way out anyway

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I found another job offer a year ago and turned in my notice and they gave me a 35% pay raise along with other concessions. Unfortunately, things have reverted back to where they were and I talked with a recruiter yesterday and am putting in resumes at other places. Been with my current company for 17 years. I'm at a point where it feels like I just need to move on. Even if I did give my current company an opportunity to keep me, I don't think I'd be comfortable the next time layoffs came around. I'm not in any particular hurry. I'll be patient and find something that really interests me and be picky for the time being.

I enjoy where I currently work, but hiring budgets are always higher than retention. Chances are, if you come to me and say you interviewed and had x offered, I will probably shake your hand and wish you the best of luck. It rarely works out once an employee starts actually job searching.

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We put in 40 good years at the plant

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Whoa...sounds awesome. Goals!

I knew this guy that would go to management every 18 months or so and say he had an offer that he wanted them to match because he wanted to stay and loved the company. They never called his bluff and he would weasel 15% bumps basically every year

I just keep working and getting screwed. That's my strategy.