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Caption
YOU GOTTA fight for what you deserve #jobsearch #job #interview
Transcript
There's really no easy way to say this, but we're going to have to cut back on your salary. What do you mean you have to cut on my pay? Great, just wanted to make sure you were actually listening, but we do need to circle back on your request for a raise. Okay. Listen, so I took it back to the team and we're thinking we could probably make 2.5% work. I mean, I did ask for a 10% raise, so I don't think that's really comparable. See, I told the team that's more of what you were looking for, but unfortunately Brett and Finance said we would not be able to make that work. Honestly then, I would like to formally resign. I thought you were happy here. I mean, until you showed me that very stupid financial decision to stay, I had a feeling this would be the response I got, so I started looking for jobs on Sprout a couple weeks ago, and I'm already expecting an offer in hand for 15% more than I'm currently making here. We need you to take on our new client. They came to us specifically because they wanted you to manage their account. Is there anything else we can give you to make you stay? If you could do better than 15% on top of my current salary, then we can talk.
Hook analysis
brand_fit: with_changes“There's really no easy way to say this, but we're going to have to cut back on your salary.”
Pattern
cold_open_story
Format
pov
Topic
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Sub-topic
raise negotiation counteroffer
Content angle
the only real leverage in a raise conversation is a competing offer
CTA
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Narrative structure
scripted two-hander skit: fake bad news -> lowball counter -> resignation reveal -> employer scrambles -> candidate names terms
AU transplant
with_changes
Transplant note
The skit shape transplants cleanly — the manager lowballing 2.5% against a 10% ask, blaming an unnamed finance gatekeeper, then finding money the moment a resignation lands, is the same script in corporate Australia. Two changes required: strip the 'Sprout' job-board plug, and re-anchor the numbers to AU reality (award/EBA increase cycles, and the fact that a visa-sponsored professional cannot walk as freely, so a competing offer is a much heavier and riskier card to play). Percentages are portable; the US at-will resignation-as-leverage assumption is not, for anyone on employer-tied sponsorship.
Brand fit note
The bones are on-brand: cold open with no preamble, real numbers (2.5% vs 10% vs 15%), a genuine mechanism (leverage comes from a real alternative offer, not from asking better), and the contempt aimed at the employer's process rather than the employee. Three fixes before it could ship. One, it plugs a named third-party job board ('Sprout'), which is promoting someone else's product. Two, it uses 'circle back', explicitly on the Never-use vocabulary list. Three, the ending edges toward the revenge/prove-them-wrong register the doc bans — reframe from 'watch them squirm' to 'you got the number you were already worth'. Also note the 15% figure is a script device, not an outcome claim, so it must not be reused as proof; unverified outcome numbers don't ship.
Why it performed