Employee describes the subtle negotiation tactic he applied during his interview to get it: ‘Usually this is where people start stuttering or trying to justify why they deserve more but I decided to try something different this time’ – FAIL Blog

It happened to me once, and when I wanted to talk about the topic with my bosses later on, all I got was a refusal accompanied by something along the lines of ‘we offered you this, and you accepted it, this is all we got.’ Maybe it really was all they had, or maybe they were too comfortable giving me the bare minimum, but I will never know because I never tried to push it. I was young back then, and I was a lot less confident; sometimes you just have to go through things like that to gain knowledge, but I have the intuition that if these types of tips and tricks were a more widespread form of wisdom, we’d be performing way better in the workplace from the get-go.