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    • Negotiating a retention bonus

      Has anyone been offered a retention bonus and negotiated for more? As some of you may remember, we're "merging" with another bank and they clearly want me to stay on board and i'm ok with staying but they do know that I'm also seeing what's out there. I've had a couple conversations with the new boss and he isn't willing to talk about salary increase even though my commute goes from less than 1 mile to about 50 miles (one way) but he did offer me a retention bonus. The bonus was underwhelming (about 10% of my yearly salary) so I want to negotiate for about triple. is it bad form to negotiate? Should I negotiate now or wait for something in writing and then negotiate?

      I'll say that we are 5 months out from the merger date so it is very early and this has all only been verbal but will be in writing over the next few weeks/month. The new boss wants the new team locked in by the first of the year.

      I hope that all made sense.

      posted in IT Careers bonus negotiation
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    • RE: Swag

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Shirts in IT sizes. Way too often there are no shirts for the larger IT guys, who are not a small segment of the IT population (pun half intended.) Lots of us can't get any shirts from the vendors as they have none in our sizes. This is pretty silly as they've known for years that 3X are all gone in seconds and mediums will be left untouched. And sizes need to be real, SW this year's t-shirts were two sizes off!!! So their 3X, which you had to pre-order, were just "large" XLs!! This does not work. People need to think about their audience.

      HEY... I get the mediums! Well sometimes but it really depends on the fit of the shirt. My shoulders are too wide for some medium and my torso is too short for some larges. It's a terrible problem to have.

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: SpiceWorld After Hours 2015

      @JaredBusch said:

      I did a panorama prior to dark.

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      HAHAH I made it into a pic! Blue hat on the right. I must have just finished my 2nd beer and was feeling a little more "normal". I wonder what I was talking about.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: SpiceWorld After Hours 2015

      Here's my pic of the Austin skyline... sorry it's only a link but you now have one of the original untouched copies. 😉

      https://app.box.com/s/2jyl1vp2pd4gm61fr5xgmfbxf7g0p4ks

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Planning MangoCon

      VM performance monitoring, reading the results, and fixing the problems.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Double Fisting at Touche

      I just realized the title of this post may be taken the wrong way for someone who wasn't there. LOL!

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: SpiceWorld After Hours 2015

      @JaredBusch said:

      The mysterious @jenuinecase

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      I think I see my ass! It's on the chair with the bottle! #almostfamous

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: MANGOLASSI World/Con/give me a name idea please

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @lhatsynot said:

      You could do Green Bay. I worked at an arena and we did all sorts of "flat shows" in our convention center. Its about as big at the main hall in Austin.

      That's way too big.

      You can do it as small as you want.

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: MANGOLASSI World/Con/give me a name idea please

      You could do Green Bay. I worked at an arena and we did all sorts of "flat shows" in our convention center. Its about as big at the main hall in Austin. There is also another venue that caters only to conferences with breakout sessions and has an attached hotel. I can pass on info if you are interested at all. Oh, and it's Wisconsin which makes it really awesome.

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      Your avatar should be a storm trooper or something Star Wars.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      There it is! You could have just said StormTrooper guy. 🙂

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      I really suck at this game. I looked you up on LinkedIn hoping you had a real picture on there... nope, just Stitch. Well I guess we will have to meet again next year so I can say "Well f[moderated], now I remember you!"

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      I remember everyone... just not their name. Sorry @Dashrender, I need more info to figure out what person you were. What did we talk about? What did we drink together? 🙂

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Double Fisting at Touche

      Yea... that was one terrible tasting drink.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: MANGOLASSI World/Con/give me a name idea please

      What about something simple like TechCon?

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @lhatsynot said:

      Well just to follow instructions I will post here and introduce myself... My name is Tony and I like long walks on the beach, a beautiful hot sunny day cooking on the grill, a good "legal aged" Scotch, and making bad decisions because they make the best stories.

      I thought that you were leading up to pina coladas!

      Meh... I'd drink 'em but I'd prefer some Scotch.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: MANGOLASSI World/Con/give me a name idea please

      NerdCon?

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

      Well just to follow instructions I will post here and introduce myself... My name is Tony and I like long walks on the beach, a beautiful hot sunny day cooking on the grill, a good "legal aged" Scotch, and making bad decisions because they make the best stories.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: SpiceWorld 2016 Austin

      Those dates are going to be difficult for me because of Halloween but if I do make it it wouldn't be early.

      posted in IT Discussion
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