Korean Job Discussion Forums

ABC KID · Joined: 14 Sep 2007

If your job was good or very good overall and better than many other workplaces but your school/academy/uni/other workplace refused to give you a pay rise at contract renewal time, would you stay or go?

sojourner1 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

If I were happy and content, I would stay another year without pay raise. The quality of your life in a job is more important than taking 100 to 200 more won somewhere else.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

It would depend on my current salary.

Hank the Iconoclast · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Location: Busan

I think the second choice is the only answer.

ABC KID · Joined: 14 Sep 2007

When I first came to Korea, I was a bit naive to say the least. My first hagwon job was okay and I was content enough despite some crap. I didn't get a pay rise after the first year and didn't really expect one. On the other hand the hagwon was doing badly and could scarcely afford it anyway.

However, if an employer refused to give me a rise at renewel nowadays it would be difficult to take. I think it shows a bit of a lack of appreciation for one's efforts (I always take my jobs very seriously).

If you don't get a rise despite having more experience, you are in effect working for less the next year as prices are going up all the time and expected to do so more rapidly in the future. That can't be right surely?

lucas_p · Joined: 17 Sep 2007