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Hey, if you wanna get a raise at work, but you just don't know how to ask, our next guest has some helpful tips on how to boost you pay by helping¹ you negotiate with the boss. With Teeki, he just threatens us. Well, to General Jackson(laugh). Badal joins us right now from San Francisco. Hi Jaclyne, how do we get a raise?

Well, we found in our reporting that there are really five things that you could do. The first step was very helpful, was making sure your boss knew what you are up to. He can't see everything, and you have to make sure you know, he's here contributing to the bottom line.

Well, that could be bragging³ though.

So you have to shamelessly promote yourself then.

Maybe not shame-free, you don't wanna be obnoxious⁴, but every now and again if you did something that's really noteworthy, let them know (So if you are Teeki), or to get praised from somebody else.

So should you just put together a bunch of clips if you're running the ball, you know, in...into the end zone and just hand it to Tom Coff?

It doesn't work, and Tom doesn't make that decision.

If you can prove it that contributed to the bottom line. He can raise... (laugh)

Hey, Don't overstate your accomplishment⁵. This goes for Teeki too. So don't overdo⁶ it, right? No.2.

Right, definitely, cause the boss generally has a data to check up on you and if you lie, you are really gonna lose a lot of credibility on the things that you actually did do well.

Ok, so what you wanna do is you wanna point out some of the things that you've done, but be honest about it, and, and only take credit where credit's due.

That's correct.

And third you say to think ahead. What do you mean by that?

A lot of people procrastinate⁷, that's kind of human nature. And a lot of people forget the things that they've done that are good, so one of the things that we found was that it was really helpful if you kept a diary of the things that you've done that works extraordinary. And then come with review time, you're prepared and you really should be preparing about, you know, three months in advance win your performance tributes.

I don't have a lot of blank pages in my diary thing.

No.4, num, No.4 is my favorite. Play both sides against the middle, get a competing job offer.

Yeah, that's correct, you know, when, we found that one of the fastest ways to raise your salary was actually just to go out in competing job offer. But if you do that, you have to be willing to jump ship but not everybody is.

Alright, then you also say lastly go online. You can research competitive wages for your, eh, particular job at either salary.com, salaryexpert.com or bls.gov, so that's some good advice and hopefully people will check it out.

Yeah!

I think I wanna go to see if the Redskins will take me. (laugh)

Absolutely, Jack², you might not be the best test case (I know), with some great points. Thanks so much for joining us.

Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

3 bragging   

v.自夸，吹嘘( brag的现在分词 )；大话

参考例句：

• He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
• Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口，亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句

4 obnoxious   

adj.极恼人的，讨人厌的，可憎的

参考例句：

• These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.这些火炉冒出来的烟气确实很难闻。
• He is the most obnoxious man I know.他是我认识的最可憎的人。

5 accomplishment   

n.完成，成就，（pl.）造诣，技能

参考例句：

• The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
• Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。

6 overdo   

vt.把...做得过头，演得过火

参考例句：

• Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.不要过分使用责备我的特权。
• The taxi drivers' association is urging its members,who can work as many hours as they want,not to overdo it.出租车司机协会劝告那些工作时长不受限制的会员不要疲劳驾驶。

7 procrastinate   

v.耽搁，拖延

参考例句：

• Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.面对不想做的事情，我们经常拖延。
• It's easy to procrastinate when the deadline seems infinitely far away.当最终期限总是遥遥无期时是很容易延期的。