Work Wednesday: It's Time To Ask for a Raise

09.22.21

One day, several of my co-workers were having lunch when one of my male co-workers expressed his intent to ask for a raise that afternoon. The reason? He’d gotten married the week before, and he had a wife to take care of now.

Forget the fact that his wife worked. Forget the fact that he’d gotten a raise the prior year. He’d was married now, and in h…