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Negotiating Workplace Benefits · She's On The Money

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Speaker 1: Hello.
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Speaker 2: My name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yr the
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Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
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Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast
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Speaker 4: for millennials who want financial freedom. My name is beck
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Speaker 4: Syed and I am actually really excited for today's chat
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Speaker 4: because I'm so awkward about this topic how to negotiate
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Speaker 4: workplace benefits. Fortunately, we have a very very skilled professional
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Speaker 4: in this area with us today. That is one Victoria divide.
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Speaker 1: And I've got a lot of audacity, so you best
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Speaker 1: believe I've got all of the tips and tricks. And
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Speaker 1: what we're going to do today is try and channel
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Speaker 1: your inner VD so that like you walk into your
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Speaker 1: boss's office with like the most audacity, like don't do
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Speaker 1: it too quickly, though you might get fired. And as
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Speaker 1: somebody who's self employed, I do have a lot of
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Speaker 1: audacity that maybe you shouldn't, so like take everything I
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Speaker 1: say with a grain of salt. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: I feel like we all deserve better, and we all
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Speaker 1: should know our worth, and we should all be kind
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Speaker 1: of putting that worth on the table to say no, Actually,
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Speaker 1: I'm a human being who has a life and who
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Speaker 1: has needs and wants, and I want career progression, and
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Speaker 1: I also want some level of flexibility, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's unreasonable to ask for those things.
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Speaker 4: It's so true.
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Speaker 1: So what's the worst thing that can happen if you
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Speaker 1: ask Becky?
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Speaker 4: Well, maybe you'll get fired, or maybe you just feel
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Speaker 4: awkward for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: Why would you get fired? Though, I feel like so
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Speaker 1: many people are so anxious to ask questions about their workplace,
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Speaker 1: even if it's just small things like oh, I need
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Speaker 1: a little bit more flexibility, Like what if your kid has,
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Speaker 1: you know, some kind of sports practice after school on
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Speaker 1: a Thursday, and you know what you'd really like to
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Speaker 1: go but you feel bad asking your boss, like why
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Speaker 1: can't we just ask? The worst thing they can say
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Speaker 1: is no, They're not going to fire you over this.
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Speaker 1: I promise you, if you ask kindly and go in
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Speaker 1: with your research, they're not going to turn around and
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Speaker 1: be like, oh my gosh, Beck, you're over and now
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you marched in and said you're treating
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Speaker 1: me like trash and you need to fix this, like,
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Speaker 1: that's probably not going to go. Yes, so well, so
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Speaker 1: we need to on the side of caution and make
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Speaker 1: sure that what we're asking for is suitable.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: But I think this is a really good conversation because Beck,
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Speaker 1: I actually got a message and I'm talking a lot
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Speaker 1: today because I'm just really excited about this topic. I
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Speaker 1: got a message from a girl who has been in
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Speaker 1: the She's on the Morning community for a really long time,
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Speaker 1: and I got it this morning, and by this morning,
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Speaker 1: I mean the second I woke up, because she sent
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Speaker 1: it to me back at two am this morning.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, Loki.
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Speaker 1: Thank god I don't have notifications for Instagram on my phone.
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Speaker 1: And the message was essentially, hey, v I can't sleep
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited and I just woke up and I thought,
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Speaker 1: I have to tell Victoria if I'm this. She recently
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Speaker 1: applied for a new job and it's like a career change,
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Speaker 1: and she's so excited about this new role. But when
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Speaker 1: they came back with an offer, the offer was fifteen
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year less than what she's currently on
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Speaker 1: for taking on more responsibilities in a different area, and
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Speaker 1: she was like, what would Victoria do? And I'm obsessed
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Speaker 1: with this thought because obviously it's put her in a
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Speaker 1: better position. But essentially she went back and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: like I would expect you know, XYZ salary for this,
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Speaker 1: and like negotiated it well, put herself first. And then
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Speaker 1: they said, oh, sorry, we can't do anything about that.
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Speaker 1: The salary's the salary. And she said, okay, unfortunately, I'm
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Speaker 1: unable to actually accept that. I'm going to have to
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Speaker 1: politely decline at this point in time, it's not putting
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Speaker 1: me first. And they said, oh, oh no, let us
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Speaker 1: get back to you. And two days later they came
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Speaker 1: back to her. They're meeting her salary requirements. They're giving
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Speaker 1: her slightly more flexibility because they took it to the
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Speaker 1: CEO and said, hey, this girl's not coming across for
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Speaker 1: the salary that you know, we've negotiated for this role.
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Speaker 1: They reclassified the role, added a few extra things that
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Speaker 1: she wanted to do anyway, but didn't think we're going
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Speaker 1: to be an opportunity. And she's in the salary. Then
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Speaker 1: she wanted to be in all because she put herself
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Speaker 1: first and said, well, actually I can't accept. I know
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Speaker 1: it sounds like a dream role, but I cannot accept
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Speaker 1: under this premise because that's not going to work out
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Speaker 1: for me. That's not going to put me in the
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Speaker 1: best possible position. You know, there's always going to be
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Speaker 1: another opportunity, which is exactly how we all should see it.
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Speaker 1: And now she's getting her dream role with her dream income.
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Speaker 1: And she said, the most awkward thing about this is
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Speaker 1: she told all of her friends at work that she'd
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Speaker 1: low key said, oh, you know, I'm going and I'm
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Speaker 1: interviewing for another job. She was like, oh, I told
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Speaker 1: them I didn't get the job and I wasn't taking
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Speaker 1: it. It wasn't leaving. Now I have to go back and
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Speaker 1: say sorry, that was just a joke.
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Speaker 4: Bar That is so cool. That is really cool.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it cool? Like people in our community are knowing
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Speaker 1: what they're worth and they are negotiating the things that
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Speaker 1: are important and know that they can push back. And
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Speaker 1: I mean, if she hadn't got that role at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, it wasn't worth it to take
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Speaker 1: the role for such a significant cuss. Yes, Like I
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Speaker 1: just think, obviously there are some instances where you need
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Speaker 1: to take one step backwards to take two steps forward.
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Speaker 1: But I think knowing your worth is so important. And
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Speaker 1: I said this was it last week on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Ana Lisa, our producer, knows way more than I do
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Speaker 1: that having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty.
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Speaker 1: It is actually self destruction. And we need to hold
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Speaker 1: ourselves to higher levels and we need to actually put
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Speaker 1: ourselves in the best possible position because if we're not,
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Speaker 1: we're being self destructive and that's going to impact us
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Speaker 1: in the future and it's going to be really negative.
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Speaker 1: So with all of that in mind and that beautiful story.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I know you're listening to this, so congratulations,
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Speaker 1: very exciting.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: I know you're listening because I know you listen to
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Speaker 1: every episode because I basically get a DM from this
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Speaker 1: person every second week about the show, which I'm obsessed with.
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Speaker 1: I'm always chatting in my DMS with my community. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into the shots.
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Speaker 4: Let's get you ready. I am so ready. And that
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Speaker 4: is such a good story, and as discourage.
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Speaker 1: He says, it was my favorite thing ever. I'll send
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Speaker 1: you the screenshots because obviously you're not going to share
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Speaker 1: them online. Maybe I will do identify them because it's
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Speaker 1: so old.
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Speaker 4: I was going to actually move forward, but because I
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Speaker 4: just said what Jascourici says, and I was about to
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Speaker 4: quote her.
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Speaker 1: She says, always do an outfit of the shot.
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Speaker 4: She says, do an outfit of the day. And yeah,
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Speaker 4: she says many many other very very inspiring things. But
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Speaker 4: the main thing is she says, if you are going
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Speaker 4: to change your was, make sure that it is at
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Speaker 4: least a ten key payer. Step ups to step up.
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Speaker 4: Basicallyase what she's saying, she's got big dog energy, she's
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Speaker 4: she's just the best, and you're our community is the
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Speaker 4: best as well. But aside from the awkwardness, why is
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Speaker 4: this conversation particularly important right now?
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Speaker 1: Obviously I think it's important twenty four to seven, but
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Speaker 1: particularly right now. You might have seen a spicy post
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Speaker 1: that I posted a little while ago that you could say,
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Speaker 1: went viral because it got a couple of million views
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Speaker 1: on TikTok and a couple of one hundred thousand on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: And I think one of the full marks of going
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Speaker 1: viral is not necessarily the views or the downloads. It's
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Speaker 1: actually the amount of abuse you copy or a dance
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Speaker 1: in the comments section. So like story checks out for
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Speaker 1: the amount of abuse. I got definitely viral. But I
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Speaker 1: posted a video a little while ago, and it was
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Speaker 1: essentially saying that if you weren't being offered a seven
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Speaker 1: point five percent pay increase this year, you weren't keeping
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Speaker 1: up with inflation, and you were essentially going backwards. And
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Speaker 1: that is true. I mean, in every segment it's going
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Speaker 1: to be different. I had a lot of people commenting
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Speaker 1: and being like, but I work in healthcare, or I
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Speaker 1: work in teaching, or I'm in a salary band, and like,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to apply to everybody in terms of
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Speaker 1: being able to walk into their boss's office and say, hey, beck,
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Speaker 1: I would like a seven point five percent increase, and
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Speaker 1: they go, yeah, no, worries, beck, I looked at the
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Speaker 1: inflation rate, and that story checks out. Like that's not
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Speaker 1: necessarily how it works. But what's important for you to
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Speaker 1: understand is how inflation works and how it impacts you,
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Speaker 1: because regardless of whether you're able to get a salary
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Speaker 1: increase or not, the important thing is you understanding that
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Speaker 1: if inflation is at seven and a half percent, that
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Speaker 1: means that without a salary increase at all, you're able
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Speaker 1: to buy seven and a half percent less stuff each
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Speaker 1: and every single year, and that can hurt. Like that
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Speaker 1: adds up as well. We've talked about it so many times.
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Speaker 1: We need to advocate for ourselves and understand our worth.
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Speaker 1: And I mean a lot of people commented and said, oh,
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Speaker 1: but that's not an option for me in my job.
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Speaker 1: And I don't mean to be rude. Actually sometimes I
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Speaker 1: do mean to be rude. This is not one of
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Speaker 1: those times you have to be at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day. If you're looking at your salary and you're
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Speaker 1: super happy, that's great. If it still serves you, if
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Speaker 1: it still puts you in the best possible position, that
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Speaker 1: is so fantastic. But if that salary is no longer
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Speaker 1: serving you, your entire life is not about work. I
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Speaker 1: definitely don't believe that a job defines you, and I
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Speaker 1: think at that point we need to reconsider what our
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Speaker 1: options are and go, well, what is going to help
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Speaker 1: me create the lifestyle that I want and the lifestyle
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Speaker 1: that I deserve. And at that point we need to
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Speaker 1: have a look at maybe changing roles or being a
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Speaker 1: little bit more assertive when it comes to negotiating or
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Speaker 1: being able to negotiate a few more benefits into your
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Speaker 1: salary package that you weren't able to negotiate before. Because
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if they can't increase
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Speaker 1: your salary, that's fantastic, Beck, What else can we negotiate?
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Speaker 1: Could there potentially be a company car, Could there be
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Speaker 1: more off Could you go from working a five day
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Speaker 1: week to a four day week but for the same salary, Like,
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Speaker 1: there are so many options that ultimately you could be
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Speaker 1: negotiating And at the end of the day, that's what
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Speaker 1: this entire episode is about. It's about negotiating workplace benefits.
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Speaker 4: Yeap, I totally agree. How can anyone have a bad
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Speaker 4: comment to make about the seven point five percent increase? TikTok,
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Speaker 4: I just don't understand what, like, is that offensive for
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Speaker 4: people to say that?
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Speaker 1: Well, at the end of the day, it's like talking
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Speaker 1: about sex and politics and religion, right, like no one
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Speaker 1: wants you to talk about money. It inherently makes people
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Speaker 1: a little bit uncomfortable. And not everybody, just like sex
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Speaker 1: and politics and religion, not everybody is on the same
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Speaker 1: page about what it is and how it works. And
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Speaker 1: I think it does ilicit some spicy comments, and I'm
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Speaker 1: okay with that. I choose to exist in their space.
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Speaker 1: But I think what really gets me is when people say, oh,
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Speaker 1: my boss said no, I'm not worth it, or we
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Speaker 1: get so many beautiful comments like this story that I
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Speaker 1: told you at the start of this episode, where we
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Speaker 1: know that the content beck we create puts people in
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Speaker 1: better positions, and I'm so insanely proud of that. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, TikTok's a wild place to live. Like, I
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Speaker 1: have never got worse comments on the Internet than I
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Speaker 1: have on TikTok. Instagram semi nice place, Facebook really nice place.
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Speaker 1: Like the people on Facebook they're relatively kind, but TikTok wild.
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Speaker 1: Some people are absolutely vile, and that's fine, that's no
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Speaker 1: worries at all. I think my favorite comments were, oh,
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Speaker 1: you don't understand inflation and how it works, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, I think I do, but what thanks anyway,
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Speaker 1: and someone else who was like, glad you don't run
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Speaker 1: a business, and I was like, oh, glad you can read.
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Speaker 2: So you know.
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Speaker 1: I don't take any of them personally. I just think
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Speaker 1: it's quite funny because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: a lot of this comes from people's perceived, I guess
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Speaker 1: idea of what it looks like when it comes to
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Speaker 1: negotiating pay, and this idea that the employer is always
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Speaker 1: the most powerful person in this circumstance and in this relationship,
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Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily the case, Like you work for
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Speaker 1: them because they need you. BECK completely agree you have
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Speaker 1: so much value. It's time for them to start seeing
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Speaker 1: it and not abusing that power. As very solid advice
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Speaker 1: and just to kind of, you know, help people along.
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Speaker 1: If you do want to listen to some older episodes
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Speaker 1: about the same topic, we do have a few. There's
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Speaker 1: one having difficult conversations with your boss back in May
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, and employee writes September twenty one,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, So go back and have a listen
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Speaker 1: if you haven't already, if you need more information. But
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Speaker 1: we are going to continue on, aren't we, Victoria. We
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Speaker 1: are actually Beck before you were saying that you find
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Speaker 1: this stuff really challenging to talk about, but I guess
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Speaker 1: it's really important to also challenge yourself because even though
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Speaker 1: you find it really scary and sometimes a little bit
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Speaker 1: challenging or a little bit hard, if you don't learn
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Speaker 1: to have these conversations now, you're essentially going to lead
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Speaker 1: yourself down a path where you either burn out or
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Speaker 1: you're feeling really frustrated with your job or your life,
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Speaker 1: or the not getting out of it what you deserve,
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Speaker 1: Like there's nothing worse. And I mean I say this
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Speaker 1: having not been through this circumstance at all, but I
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Speaker 1: can imagine that there's nothing worse than you know, getting
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Speaker 1: to a point in your career where you look back
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Speaker 1: and you go, I'd be so much further along, and
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Speaker 1: I deserve to be so much further along, and I
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Speaker 1: deserve so much more than what I'm currently getting. I
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Speaker 1: wish I'd been able to speak up, or I wish
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Speaker 1: I'd been able to see my worth or my value.
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Speaker 1: And there's something about finally seeing your own value where
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Speaker 1: it's obviously empowering, but it empowers those around you. And
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Speaker 1: I would argue I'm that type of person right, Like
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Speaker 1: I did not see my own value historically. And that's
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Speaker 1: not just financially, that's individually, Like as a person, I
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Speaker 1: was just like, oh, like, I don't have a lot
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Speaker 1: of confidence. I don't have a lot of self worth,
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Speaker 1: Like I don't. I think it's really rude when people
13:50
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence because they must be cocky
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Speaker 1: or have a big ego, and like that's not the
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Speaker 1: case at all. But I look back and I go, oh, baby, Victoria,
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Speaker 1: I wish I could like pick you up and say
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Speaker 1: worth more than that, Like people can't talk to you
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Speaker 1: that way, or you know, you should be negotiating a
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Speaker 1: pay rise here, or you actually should be paid for
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Speaker 1: the work you're doing. It's not for free. There's just
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Speaker 1: so many times where I want to scoop myself up,
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Speaker 1: and I guess I've translated that into the community and
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Speaker 1: now I want to scoop all of you up and
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Speaker 1: give you all those tools and resources because you deserve them.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone should be feeling frustrated or
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Speaker 1: burnt out because of work.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I completely agree.
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Speaker 1: I mean I define myself. I don't define myself this way,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like sometimes I define myself as a
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Speaker 1: career girly right, Like, I love my job, I love
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Speaker 1: what I do. It's what I leave and what I breathe,
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Speaker 1: but like, it's not the entirety of who I am,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's important to kind of put those
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Speaker 1: things aside. But if work is not serving you, it
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Speaker 1: ultimately ends up taking over and you deserve more than Yes.
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Speaker 4: That is so true, Vickid. Also, I would love to
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Speaker 4: meet baby Victoria. I just want to put that out there.
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Speaker 1: So you don't She had really bad eyebrows, terrible before
14:58
Speaker 1: I met brook Sutherland. Holy molely my eyebrows, Like they're embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason I went through my entire Facebook history
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Speaker 1: and deleted all those bad photos because it's honestly embarrassing.
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Speaker 4: It's so cute. We all been there. Don't even worry
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Speaker 4: about it. But v what should we do in the
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Speaker 4: lead up to negotiating workplace benefits? Lots?
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Speaker 1: Because you can't just march into your boss's office and
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Speaker 1: be like I listened to a podcast or in Victoria
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Speaker 1: and Beck and they said I deserve more, So what
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Speaker 1: have you got for me? Like that's not going to work.
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Speaker 1: I mean it might work, and if it does, please
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Speaker 1: call me. I'd love to hear that story. But first
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Speaker 1: things first, we're going to do our research. We're going
15:33
Speaker 1: to understand our rights. We're going to know what we
15:35
Speaker 1: are worth, so that when somebody comes back to us
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Speaker 1: and says no, you can be like haha, actually yeah,
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Speaker 1: like actually yeah, that is happening before entering any type
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Speaker 1: of conversation or I guess you could say negotiation about
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Speaker 1: your position or about your rights. So I think it's
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Speaker 1: important to understand where you stand. So whether that is
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Speaker 1: in Australia or in New Zealand or in the US
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Speaker 1: or whatever country you are listening from, are going to
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Speaker 1: be I guess, regulations and rules. And here in Australia
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Speaker 1: we have the Fair Work Act of two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: which needs to be updated because it's from two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine. It was seven about that but yeah, you know, right,
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Speaker 1: like it feels like it was yesterday, but like beck,
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Speaker 1: it was ages ago, Like that's the year that I
16:18
Speaker 1: graduated from high school. That was so long ago and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to admit that, so maybe like let's
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Speaker 1: not But the Fair Work Act two thousand and nine
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Speaker 1: actually sets out minimum standards for employment conditions including benefits,
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Speaker 1: and obviously we're going to cover some of those non negotiables,
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Speaker 1: but essentially know that and go to the website and
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Speaker 1: look at that. So you just google Fairwork Act two
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Speaker 1: thousand and nine and it will pop up, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to be different based on what segment or what
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Speaker 1: industry you work in, whether you're casual, part time or
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Speaker 1: full time or a freelancer, there's going to be different segments.
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Speaker 1: And it feels overwhelming because the act is huge. Like beck,
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Speaker 1: if I said, hey, here's the Act, I'd be like
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Speaker 1: slamming it down on the table and you be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's thicker than a bible in type twelve bench frends like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's massive, right, But the website actually sets it out
17:08
Speaker 1: really easily so you can kind of jump to the
17:11
Speaker 1: sections that make sense for you. So if you work
17:13
Speaker 1: in retail, you can go and read the retail segment,
17:15
Speaker 1: or if you work in hospitality, you can look at
17:17
Speaker 1: that segment. So don't think it's too overwhelming, because I
17:20
Speaker 1: promise it's not, and it's written in a way that
17:22
Speaker 1: is going to make sense to you, not be overwhelming,
17:25
Speaker 1: because it's definitely written for everybody to understand where they stand.
17:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
17:29
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And if you want to have a look at that.
17:32
Speaker 4: In today's show notes, you'll see the links to the
17:34
Speaker 4: Union Charter of Rights, leave entitlements, and also superannuation entitlements.
17:39
Speaker 1: So what a sexy little list. Yeah, like other other
17:42
Speaker 1: podcasts have like link to my leggings in the show notes,
17:46
Speaker 1: or link to my discount code for this really exciting
17:49
Speaker 1: beauty product. And I'm like, so have you heard of
17:51
Speaker 1: the Fair Work Act two thousand and nine? Really hot,
17:53
Speaker 1: It's in my bio have a lot. I prefer that,
17:56
Speaker 1: to be honest with you.
17:57
Speaker 4: So the what should we cover?
17:59
Speaker 2: Neck?
18:00
Speaker 1: All right? All right? So next we need to identify
18:03
Speaker 1: what you want and what you need so you can
18:05
Speaker 1: just walk in and be like, I want a better deal,
18:07
Speaker 1: Like what does that actually mean for you? So have
18:09
Speaker 1: a really good think about what your needs and priorities
18:12
Speaker 1: are when it comes to workplace benefits. Like let's talk
18:15
Speaker 1: about more than pay. We did episodes, as you mentioned before,
18:19
Speaker 1: We've done episodes on negotiating salary. We can do that.
18:22
Speaker 1: I'm actually dropping very very soon. Actually, when this episode
18:26
Speaker 1: comes out, I've probably already dropped it. And that's a
18:28
Speaker 1: script to negotiate your salary so that you feel a
18:31
Speaker 1: little bit more empowered. But you need to think about
18:34
Speaker 1: factors like flexible work arrangements, paid parental leave, supernuation contributions,
18:41
Speaker 1: potentially health insurance. That's not as common in Australia, but
18:44
Speaker 1: it's becoming common because health insurance costs are going through
18:49
Speaker 1: the roof. And having that in your I guess employment
18:51
Speaker 1: package it's pretty hot. We've got professional development opportunities, work
18:56
Speaker 1: life balance. There's so many different things that could be included,
19:01
Speaker 1: because you need to sit down and work out, well,
19:03
Speaker 1: what is a value to me, what's going to actually
19:05
Speaker 1: provide some benefits? Because Beck, if you and I sat
19:08
Speaker 1: down and how to look at this like, I'm pretty
19:11
Speaker 1: sure at this stage in your life, paid parental leave
19:15
Speaker 1: is probably not on the top of your.
19:16
Speaker 4: List, not at the moment.
19:18
Speaker 1: But looking at like work life balance, you might go, oh,
19:22
Speaker 1: I'd love some more like leave days. Or you might say, oh,
19:24
Speaker 1: I'd really love some more flexible working arrangements because I'd
19:28
Speaker 1: love to work from home a few more days a week,
19:30
Speaker 1: or at least one day a week, or whatever that
19:32
Speaker 1: looks like. And all of those things can be negotiated
19:36
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. I think it's so wild.
19:38
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty three, Like we can be flexible and
19:42
Speaker 1: still have super productive stuff. It's not the nineties anymore,
19:46
Speaker 1: where our staff only have access to a computer that's
19:49
Speaker 1: a big clunky desktop at their desk and they have
19:52
Speaker 1: to come into work Like I can work from literally anywhere.
19:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I feel like, you know, there's
19:58
Speaker 4: a time maybe a time life where things were done,
20:01
Speaker 4: like there were a lot of physical jobs, So that
20:03
Speaker 4: does take time. You can't speed that up. But productivity
20:06
Speaker 4: for like the everyday office worker, you don't you don't
20:09
Speaker 4: need to be trying to fit that into five days,
20:12
Speaker 4: forty hours a week, you know, I don't know, it
20:14
Speaker 4: just seems silly.
20:15
Speaker 1: So one percent, one hundred percent. You've got to be
20:17
Speaker 1: really reasonable about it too, right, Like really, if you're
20:20
Speaker 1: a receptionist, you probably can't go I know, I work
20:22
Speaker 1: an office job. I want to work from home. It's like, well, actually,
20:25
Speaker 1: my friend in your job is greeting clients that come
20:28
Speaker 1: into the office, and you know, being on front down, sure,
20:31
Speaker 1: like work from home benefits probably not going to work
20:34
Speaker 1: that way. Sure, if you're a traffic controller, you probably
20:37
Speaker 1: can't work from home, Like that's not really you can
20:40
Speaker 1: try promote and if it's so valuable to you that
20:44
Speaker 1: you do work from home, maybe we should be considering
20:46
Speaker 1: a different career product, right right, right, But that's just me, bad,
20:49
Speaker 1: that's just me.
20:49
Speaker 4: But also so I could like say, for example, I
20:52
Speaker 4: want my phone or internet bill taken care of, like
20:54
Speaker 4: in my contract, Like I could ask for that kind
20:56
Speaker 4: of thing, or like try and negotiate.
20:58
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. In fact, I find it so interesting
21:03
Speaker 1: at this point in time, I don't pay my team's
21:06
Speaker 1: phone bills. And I don't pay my team's phone bills
21:09
Speaker 1: for a few reasons. That's one because I think that
21:11
Speaker 1: they work from you know, nine to five every day.
21:14
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually work from nine till three on Fridays,
21:16
Speaker 1: lucky little ducks. But I don't actually, if we can
21:20
Speaker 1: avoid it, I don't want them using their phones for
21:22
Speaker 1: work because they aren't actually available to me twenty four
21:25
Speaker 1: to seven. Yeah, I think that you should have your
21:27
Speaker 1: laptop on you to access emails. If you really want
21:30
Speaker 1: to have your emails on your phone for your own
21:33
Speaker 1: ease of access, that is absolutely fine, But I find
21:36
Speaker 1: it so interesting because I had a friend the other day,
21:38
Speaker 1: go oh, my boss said that I had to download
21:41
Speaker 1: this particular software so that I can have my work
21:44
Speaker 1: emails on my phone. And it's like a security software,
21:47
Speaker 1: but it's essentially a tracking software that like tracks the
21:51
Speaker 1: phone and they can wipe my friend's phone remotely, like
21:55
Speaker 1: if they lost it or you know, there was a
21:57
Speaker 1: data breach or whatever. I just feel like that's such
21:59
Speaker 1: an invasion of privacy and that's okay, Like if you
22:02
Speaker 1: accept it, no worries, Like if you're a bit like
22:04
Speaker 1: me and you're like, man, I don't say anything bad
22:06
Speaker 1: and my DMS go for it. I think that's fine
22:09
Speaker 1: if you accept that. But that's now a work device,
22:12
Speaker 1: Like that's now a device that to me exists for work.
22:16
Speaker 1: So you either give me a work device that at
22:18
Speaker 1: five PM I can put in my draw and I
22:21
Speaker 1: only use it for work, or are you trying to
22:23
Speaker 1: tell me that you think I need twenty four seven
22:25
Speaker 1: access to my work emails, in which case, why right?
22:29
Speaker 2: Right?
22:29
Speaker 1: Like I'll do my job during work hours. And I
22:31
Speaker 1: mean there's lots of different I guess caveats to that,
22:34
Speaker 1: Like there could be people saying, oh, I'm less stressed
22:36
Speaker 1: if I can see my emails coming, I am too,
22:38
Speaker 1: Like I love seeing push notifications to know the world
22:41
Speaker 1: is still spinning. I don't care if I'm out for
22:43
Speaker 1: dinner with my friends, so I don't care if it's
22:45
Speaker 1: a Saturday. I just like to know that things are
22:47
Speaker 1: still going on because that reduces my anxiety. So I'm
22:50
Speaker 1: happy with that. And if you know my team are
22:52
Speaker 1: like that, then great, but I want that to be
22:55
Speaker 1: for their own benefit, not because my team need to
22:59
Speaker 1: you know, accessible to me twenty four to seven. And
23:02
Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot to say about asking
23:05
Speaker 1: your boss to pay your phone bill if it becomes
23:08
Speaker 1: a workfonm am, I expected to use this device for work, Yeah, great, pay.
23:13
Speaker 4: Me yes, Okay. So I guess it's kind of like
23:16
Speaker 4: maybe like for example, in hospow work where you don't
23:18
Speaker 4: really need to be using you unless ah, but then
23:20
Speaker 4: you might need to call O. I don't know, different
23:22
Speaker 4: strokes for different folks. That's something to keep in mind.
23:25
Speaker 4: I suppose if.
23:26
Speaker 1: That's absolutely gonna be and everything's negotiable, right, like you
23:30
Speaker 1: mentioned before, like internet bills, absolutely they could be taken
23:33
Speaker 1: into consideration, but at the same time, be reasonable, yes,
23:37
Speaker 1: Like if you are somebody who has, you know, work
23:40
Speaker 1: from home day one day a week, and there's a
23:42
Speaker 1: lot of flexibility, and you already have an unly mentioned
23:45
Speaker 1: internet plan and you're using it to stream Netflix and
23:48
Speaker 1: play games and you know, spend a whole heap of
23:50
Speaker 1: hours playing the sims like I do. Sometimes Like, maybe
23:54
Speaker 1: that's not that reasonable to ask for. But if maybe,
23:57
Speaker 1: let's say you live in an apartment and you're expected
23:59
Speaker 1: to work from home five days a week and you
24:01
Speaker 1: don't actually use the Internet for anything else and you
24:03
Speaker 1: had to have it connected specifically to work from home,
24:06
Speaker 1: That's when I would mention to my boss like, oh, hey,
24:08
Speaker 1: what does this actually look like? I wouldn't have this
24:11
Speaker 1: service otherwise it's definitely a work expense, Yes.
24:15
Speaker 4: I understand. Okay, what about if it's like half work
24:19
Speaker 4: expense half regular things. You just use your one Now
24:22
Speaker 4: they don't have to pay the full bill, right, Like
24:24
Speaker 4: let's say your phone bill each and every single month
24:27
Speaker 4: there's sixty dollars and you say I use it half
24:29
Speaker 4: a personal half for work. Maybe they pay thirty dollars
24:32
Speaker 4: of your bill and that just gets added to your
24:34
Speaker 4: salary so that you can pay that, or maybe it
24:37
Speaker 4: gets taken internally and it's like there's a lot to
24:40
Speaker 4: do and it's up to your boss how that happens.
24:43
Speaker 4: But I do think that we need to be advocating
24:45
Speaker 4: for those costs, like don't even get me started on reimbursements,
24:49
Speaker 4: like crazy. Okay, so this is actually kind of looking
24:54
Speaker 4: exciting and not so daunting. After all, it shouldn't be. Yeah, yeah,
24:58
Speaker 4: I think that's the case. It feels very all good,
25:01
Speaker 4: it feels very uncomfortable. But for you, what other things
25:03
Speaker 4: should we take into consideration moving forward?
25:05
Speaker 1: You need to gather up your information, like collect it
25:08
Speaker 1: into one nice central place, and I would connect with
25:11
Speaker 1: like mentors or like other colleagues, and I guess anyone
25:15
Speaker 1: in your network who could help you understand your own perspective.
25:19
Speaker 1: So when it comes to advocating for your own rights,
25:22
Speaker 1: especially in a workplace, it can feel really overwhelming. But beck,
25:25
Speaker 1: if we took a step back and I said, all right,
25:28
Speaker 1: you need to go to your boss and ask for
25:29
Speaker 1: you know, let's say, them to pay your phone bill,
25:32
Speaker 1: and you go, oh, V, that's actually really scary. I'm
25:35
Speaker 1: not sure, Like I don't want to get them offside.
25:37
Speaker 1: I don't want to have a bad conversation. Go all right, Beck, Well,
25:40
Speaker 1: what's going to make you more comfortable with this? Collect
25:42
Speaker 1: your information, do some research about whether your boss should
25:46
Speaker 1: be paying it. So I would google, you know media
25:49
Speaker 1: phone bill's boss pays, and forums are probably going to
25:52
Speaker 1: come up, and conversations are happening. These conversations happen every
25:55
Speaker 1: single day. And now she's on the money community. So
25:57
Speaker 1: if you're not there, you're missing out. But you could
26:00
Speaker 1: have that conversation. I'd go, Beck, go and ask your colleagues.
26:03
Speaker 1: Are any of them having their phone bills comped? And
26:05
Speaker 1: you might go around the office and a few people go, now,
26:07
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it. Now I haven't thought about it,
26:09
Speaker 1: And you're only asking trusted colleagues Like these could be
26:11
Speaker 1: people that you see as friends in your workplace, or
26:14
Speaker 1: they could be people that you see as friends outside
26:17
Speaker 1: of your workplace that are in similar roles. And you know,
26:20
Speaker 1: friend that works at a competitor goes, oh, yeah, Beck,
26:23
Speaker 1: actually my boss pays for half my phone bill. And
26:25
Speaker 1: you go, oh, how do you negotiate that?
26:27
Speaker 4: Oh?
26:27
Speaker 1: I asked, and they said, yes, it made a lot
26:29
Speaker 1: of sense. These are the things I said, And then
26:31
Speaker 1: you come across someone in your workplace and they say, yeah,
26:34
Speaker 1: of course they can negotiated it when I started. So
26:36
Speaker 1: you go, oh, I'm collecting all this information for me
26:39
Speaker 1: to feel more powerful and feel more I guess, validated
26:42
Speaker 1: in the decisions that I'm making in the questions I'm asking.
26:45
Speaker 1: You've just been told by a friend who works in
26:47
Speaker 1: a similar industry. Actually, yes, I get this. You've been
26:50
Speaker 1: told by someone who works for you that they negotiated
26:53
Speaker 1: it upfront, So you now know that that workplace do
26:55
Speaker 1: pay it. You just didn't negotiate it upfront, and now
26:58
Speaker 1: you do. So you're going to walk into this conversation
27:01
Speaker 1: a whole heap more empowered, so that you can say, hey,
27:05
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, you know, you're not going to throw
27:06
Speaker 1: the influ in their face, just wondering what your thoughts about,
27:09
Speaker 1: you know, helping me out with this are. I've been
27:11
Speaker 1: thinking about it. I do use the phone for personal
27:14
Speaker 1: use half the time, work use the other half. So
27:17
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I don't expect you to cover it all,
27:19
Speaker 1: but i'd like to propose that you know, you pay
27:22
Speaker 1: half the bill. Let me know your thoughts. Obviously, you
27:24
Speaker 1: don't have to answer immediately, and they're very likely to
27:27
Speaker 1: say yes. But also you're going to be so much
27:30
Speaker 1: more confident because you've had these conversations and you have
27:33
Speaker 1: a really compelling argument. And if they then say no,
27:36
Speaker 1: that's when you come back and say, Okay, well, you know,
27:39
Speaker 1: I've got a friend in a different role at a
27:41
Speaker 1: different organization similar to mine, same thing happens, And have
27:46
Speaker 1: those conversations, obviously without throwing your colleagues under a bus,
27:50
Speaker 1: but have those conversations so you feel really empowered and
27:53
Speaker 1: so that you don't feel like you're asking for too much,
27:56
Speaker 1: because I promise you're not.
27:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, so V what else should we be considering during
28:00
Speaker 4: this time?
28:00
Speaker 1: You need to look at how long you've been in
28:02
Speaker 1: the job. I mean, tackling this in the first week
28:06
Speaker 1: is probably going to make your boss give you a
28:08
Speaker 1: little bit of bombastic sidehi. Ah. They're going to be like, well,
28:14
Speaker 1: why didn't negotiate that first because it's so close to
28:17
Speaker 1: your I guess employment date. But also it's really important
28:22
Speaker 1: to kind of build a case around what you deserve
28:25
Speaker 1: and what you've got, So like talking about your accomplishments
28:27
Speaker 1: and your contributions and I guess your commitment to the
28:31
Speaker 1: organization that's going to support your request for improved benefits. Right,
28:35
Speaker 1: emphasize how whatever you're negotiating for can contribute to your
28:38
Speaker 1: professional growth and your overall productivity and development. Like we're
28:42
Speaker 1: not just saying, Oh, I want to work from home
28:44
Speaker 1: because it's so nice, like my cat's there. I like
28:48
Speaker 1: being able to wear my slippers all day. I really
28:51
Speaker 1: like that when I finish at five o'clock, I can
28:53
Speaker 1: just slam my laptop shut and jump on Netflix. Like
28:56
Speaker 1: that's probably not what your boss cares about. I think
29:00
Speaker 1: going to your boss and saying, look, i'd really like
29:01
Speaker 1: to work from home and highlighting the benefits to them,
29:05
Speaker 1: but also the benefits to your career and your overall
29:08
Speaker 1: productivity is going to make the most sense. So if
29:10
Speaker 1: I was trying to negotiate more work from home time,
29:13
Speaker 1: I'd go, Hey, Beck, you're my really cool boss. I
29:17
Speaker 1: really want to talk to you about my benefits and
29:18
Speaker 1: being able to work from home. So I currently commute
29:22
Speaker 1: an hour and a half to and from work, and
29:25
Speaker 1: I know that that time's not productive, it's being lost.
29:28
Speaker 1: I also feel like I'm quite distracted in the office
29:31
Speaker 1: by you know, office politics and what a coller chat
29:33
Speaker 1: and all of that. I just think if I was
29:35
Speaker 1: working from home two days a week in comparison to
29:38
Speaker 1: the five I'm spending in the office, I think that
29:41
Speaker 1: I could be way more productive. I really want that.
29:43
Speaker 1: I guess, really solo time to smash out my emails
29:47
Speaker 1: and just get a whole heap of projects done. I
29:49
Speaker 1: think my productivity is going to increase. That's really good
29:52
Speaker 1: for you know, obviously my career progression, but also for
29:55
Speaker 1: the business.
29:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is so true. I cannot go into
29:58
Speaker 4: the office. I never get a lick of work done.
30:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm always running up to your desk and
30:03
Speaker 1: trying to scare you from behind.
30:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. And so then I guess I'm scared and
30:07
Speaker 4: I can't do anyone. I can't focus on anything else.
30:09
Speaker 4: I'm just scared of you, and I'm verifying. So for
30:11
Speaker 4: the rest of I'm terrifying. Honestly, watch out, exactly. I
30:16
Speaker 4: saw what I'm gonna do next. I'm not going to
30:17
Speaker 4: bring my laptop in at all. I'm just going to
30:19
Speaker 4: be staring and waiting for you to pop out of someway.
30:22
Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Yeah, I think that'll go down runway.
30:24
Speaker 4: That's probably the best thing to do. Is there anything
30:26
Speaker 4: else we should consider at this moment?
30:29
Speaker 1: Timing? Timing should be impeccable. We need to make sure
30:34
Speaker 1: that we're considering at what time we're asking for these things,
30:37
Speaker 1: So picking an appropriate time, so whether that is during
30:40
Speaker 1: your performance review or a contract renewal, or when your
30:44
Speaker 1: employer is actually discussing overall workplace policies. I would aim
30:48
Speaker 1: for a time when your employer is open to discussing
30:50
Speaker 1: these things, but also be relatively assertive about that timeframe.
30:54
Speaker 1: So obviously those are really good suggestions. But if I
30:57
Speaker 1: were you, I would actually book a time sure, so
31:00
Speaker 1: I would make sure that I am sitting down with
31:02
Speaker 1: my boss. I'm not just going to like walk into
31:05
Speaker 1: their office because I've been inspired by a podcast and
31:07
Speaker 1: be like, oh, beck you free for a sec. Like
31:09
Speaker 1: that's just going to get them offside. They're busy. I
31:12
Speaker 1: promise you that's not going to go down well. But
31:14
Speaker 1: like preface it a little bit, Oh, I'd love to
31:16
Speaker 1: have a career check in, or I'd love to have
31:18
Speaker 1: a check in about you know, work from home and
31:21
Speaker 1: what that means, and book a time and if they say, oh,
31:24
Speaker 1: I don't have time for that, be like, okay, well,
31:26
Speaker 1: how do I make time for that? What would that
31:28
Speaker 1: look like? I'm happy to do it over lunch, I'm
31:30
Speaker 1: happy to do this. I'm happy to do that. And
31:32
Speaker 1: I think that by being relatively assertive that this is
31:36
Speaker 1: important to you, they're going to make time for it.
31:38
Speaker 1: But also, if you pick a good time where you're
31:41
Speaker 1: already talking about how well you're doing, like a performance conversation,
31:45
Speaker 1: or you're re signing a contract, or you know, your
31:47
Speaker 1: employers asking for feedback, like, that's obviously going to be
31:51
Speaker 1: taken a lot better than you randomly walking into their office,
31:54
Speaker 1: which I do not recommend.
31:56
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:56
Speaker 1: Another thing that I've just thought of is clear effective communication,
32:02
Speaker 1: which can be hard because like, how hard is it
32:04
Speaker 1: going into someone's office and be like, oh, I was
32:06
Speaker 1: just wondering if I could. Yeah, probably, don't worry about it,
32:09
Speaker 1: and they go on, no, no, no, back, what is it?
32:11
Speaker 2: Like?
32:11
Speaker 1: Let's be assertive but confident. Like there's a very big
32:16
Speaker 1: difference between confidence and arrogance. I feel like in women, particularly,
32:21
Speaker 1: they get confused. You're not arrogant, You're just confident. You
32:25
Speaker 1: know what you're worth. And that is okay. I promise
32:28
Speaker 1: you that you aren't rude, you are not asking for
32:30
Speaker 1: too much, and you're not in any way, shape or
32:33
Speaker 1: form arrogant. I think expressing your interest and concerns respectfully
32:38
Speaker 1: and professionally is very, very important. So make sure that
32:42
Speaker 1: when you go in there, maybe you've practiced it in
32:44
Speaker 1: their mirror, maybe you've practiced it in the car on
32:46
Speaker 1: the way in. But also to make yourself a little
32:49
Speaker 1: bit more confident, have some specific examples and some data
32:53
Speaker 1: to support your requests. So discuss the potential benefits, as
32:57
Speaker 1: I said before, for yourself, but also for the organization.
33:00
Speaker 1: So as I said before, saying I really want to
33:03
Speaker 1: work from home, like my cat's so lonely, it's not
33:06
Speaker 1: going to go down. Well, let's not do that. Let's
33:09
Speaker 1: put the organization first and go all right, let's talk
33:11
Speaker 1: about more productivity. Here's some research that says people who
33:14
Speaker 1: work from home are way more productive. Let's consider that.
33:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good point. B I love that.
33:19
Speaker 4: I think this is a really good time to go
33:20
Speaker 4: to all break, absorb everything, and we'll see you on
33:22
Speaker 4: the other side. Welcome back. Every once. We have been
33:29
Speaker 4: talking about negotiating workplace benefits if you can't get a
33:32
Speaker 4: pay rise, so v what are some of the extra
33:35
Speaker 4: benefits Australian employers tend to offer to workers.
33:39
Speaker 1: All right, So there are lots, and it's really going
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Speaker 1: to depend on, I guess, the size and the nature
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Speaker 1: of the business that you work for. There are a
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Speaker 1: few common ones that I've written down, so we're going
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Speaker 1: to fly through them as to not bore you too much.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to be surprised about this one. Beck
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Speaker 1: Flexible work arrangements. We've just spoken a lot about them,
33:57
Speaker 1: but they could mean a lot more than just working
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Speaker 1: from home. They could mean that you get to come
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Speaker 1: in earlier and leave earlier, depending on your role. It
34:05
Speaker 1: could mean a couple of days a week you work
34:08
Speaker 1: a longer shift so that on a Friday you only
34:11
Speaker 1: work a half shift, And it really depends on what
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Speaker 1: is going to work for you and how that works.
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Speaker 1: And obviously, guys, it's twenty twenty three. Work life balance
34:19
Speaker 1: is a top priority nowadays for most of us, and
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Speaker 1: it's also something that a lot of organizations are talking about.
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Speaker 1: So it depends on what you want to do and
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Speaker 1: how it works. But there's a lot of different ways
34:31
Speaker 1: that work life balance could be prioritized with your work hours.
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Speaker 1: Additional leave options are a very attractive one as well.
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Speaker 1: Beck So some employers they might offer additional paid leave
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Speaker 1: options beyond the minimum requirements, like you might get extra
34:45
Speaker 1: annual leave days, or you might get paid volunteerly or
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Speaker 1: cultural leave for specific events, or you know, extended unpaid
34:52
Speaker 1: leave for personal or travel purposes, and you can absolutely
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Speaker 1: negotiate that. So I have a girlfriend who recently negotiated this,
34:59
Speaker 1: and I'm so of her because I just think it's
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Speaker 1: so baller. And she was like, I need to tell
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Speaker 1: you about this because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: I only did it because you told me that I
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Speaker 1: could do it. She couldn't get a pay rise, and
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Speaker 1: she was a bit salty about it, to be honest,
35:11
Speaker 1: and I would be too if I was in her shoes,
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Speaker 1: because she'd been there for like five years, not how
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Speaker 1: to pay rise, like nothing when it came to CPI
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Speaker 1: any of that. But she went back to the boss
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Speaker 1: and said, Hey, no worries, I know that you can't
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Speaker 1: afford more when it comes to salary, but I'd like
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Speaker 1: two additional weeks of paid leave. And so now instead
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Speaker 1: of having four weeks a year, she has six weeks
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Speaker 1: a year paid. The leave she gets to go on
35:37
Speaker 1: her Europe trip completely paid because she's you know, allocating
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Speaker 1: that time and energy to it. And I just think
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Speaker 1: that that's such a sexy benefit that very like for
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Speaker 1: some people. Having more paid time off makes sense because
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Speaker 1: she wouldn't have been able to afford to pay for
35:51
Speaker 1: it herself. But now it's in her contract. The employee
35:54
Speaker 1: is not out any more financially. Obviously, there's obviously an
35:58
Speaker 1: implication to that she's not there, but it worked out
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Speaker 1: for everybody.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Speaker 1: Health and wellness programs you could negotiate. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of employers actually offer access to health and wellness programs,
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Speaker 1: and they could include things like gym memberships or fitness classes,
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Speaker 1: or mental health support or counseling services, and there's just
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Speaker 1: lots of different initiatives that are there. You could talk
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Speaker 1: to your employer about that. For me, something that is
36:21
Speaker 1: important is professional development and training. So there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of employers that invest in their employees' professional development
36:28
Speaker 1: or their growth by offering training and skill development and
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Speaker 1: career advancement. So what can your employee offer you. Are
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Speaker 1: they maybe paying for you to go to a conference
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Speaker 1: each and every single year. It could be anything from
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Speaker 1: financial support for different certifications or workshops or conferences, or
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Speaker 1: just further education or even just time off for study.
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Speaker 1: You could negotiate EAP SO employee assistance programs so these
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Speaker 1: are designed to support employees with personal or work related challenges,
36:56
Speaker 1: and they often provide confidential counseling services or legal advice,
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Speaker 1: financial guidance, and resources for mental health support, which I
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Speaker 1: think is incredibly important. You could if they say no
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Speaker 1: to a salary increase, you could negotiate a bonus or
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Speaker 1: an incentive. So an employer might be able to offer
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Speaker 1: you a performance based bonus or incentive program to reward
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Speaker 1: you for your exceptional work or meeting specific targets. And
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Speaker 1: these can be financial. It could be like a profit
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Speaker 1: share scheme or you know, share options, or non monetary
37:27
Speaker 1: rewards like company sponsored trips or events, or even just
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Speaker 1: like training programs that you want access to. You could
37:34
Speaker 1: negotiate a sneaky little employee discount or perfect so. These
37:38
Speaker 1: discounts could be on like products or services offered by
37:41
Speaker 1: the company that you work for or its partners. These
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Speaker 1: could include a range of things including reduced pricing on
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Speaker 1: company products, or subsidized childcare or transport, or access to
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Speaker 1: employee discount programs for shopping, travel or entertainment. Like ask
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Speaker 1: your employer about these things, because sometimes they have them
37:59
Speaker 1: and they just not well communicated as well. Like I
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Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago talking to my dad,
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Speaker 1: and my dad works in corporate and he was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we got this notice in our emails to say that
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Speaker 1: this specific car dealership that you know, we've got a
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Speaker 1: partnership with is ending their partnership. He's like, I wish
38:18
Speaker 1: I knew about that before before I bought a new car,
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Speaker 1: because I had no idea that we got a discount there. Right,
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Speaker 1: I was like, what a good benefit, but also sad
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Speaker 1: it's leaving. Sad you didn't get access to it. He
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Speaker 1: had no idea, So I think it's really important if
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Speaker 1: you don't know whether they do, do a little bit
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Speaker 1: of research is probably on your Like you know how
38:37
Speaker 1: lots of companies have those like portals that you can
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Speaker 1: log into like intranets, have a look on there, see
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Speaker 1: what other benefits are offered to you. And then again
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Speaker 1: work life balance, in issuating, and so I'm so about
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Speaker 1: this and think it's so important that employers might implement
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Speaker 1: I guess various incentives to promote work life balance, like
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Speaker 1: on site childcare facilities, or flexible parental leave pies, or
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Speaker 1: paid time off for family events, or the ability to
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Speaker 1: purchase additional leave. So ask all of these questions. I
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Speaker 1: think that they are so important. But I guess you
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Speaker 1: can see where my priority is live when it comes
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Speaker 1: to work life balance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I could not advocate for work life balance more.
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Speaker 1: You're the work life balance queen. Honestly, you resually like
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Speaker 1: life starts outside of work. You know that's where your
39:22
Speaker 1: life is. Let's talk about non negotiables V. What are
39:25
Speaker 1: we entitled to by the law. Obviously you mentioned before
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Speaker 1: that we're going to have a whole heap of links
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Speaker 1: in the show notes to some resources for you all.
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Speaker 1: But the managatory workers benefits for Australian workers include a
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Speaker 1: few of the following. So minimum wage, So Australian workers
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Speaker 1: are entitled to minimum wage, which is set by the
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Speaker 1: Fair Work Commission and it's reviewed each and every single year.
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Speaker 1: Stullbrainuation employers must make regular contributions to their employees super funds,
39:52
Speaker 1: which are designed to provide a retirement income. The current
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Speaker 1: minimum contribution rate is eleven percent of an employer's ordinary earnings,
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Speaker 1: and as of the first of July twenty twenty six,
40:03
Speaker 1: employers will have to start paying your SUPER each pay day,
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Speaker 1: which is an interesting concept that I got asked about
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Speaker 1: the other day because a lot of people get paid
40:12
Speaker 1: their SUPER quarterly and they go, wait, why is it?
40:15
Speaker 1: Or may pay sleep for weekly or monthly or however
40:18
Speaker 1: often I get paid but only put into my account
40:20
Speaker 1: every quarter. So if that's happening to you, yes, that
40:23
Speaker 1: is legal. I do look forward to the change, though,
40:26
Speaker 1: because I feel like I would like everybody to be
40:28
Speaker 1: investing more consistently and more regularly, to be making the
40:31
Speaker 1: most of dollar cost averaging, aside from that which I
40:35
Speaker 1: obviously am very very passionate about. MEG. And you'll leave
40:39
Speaker 1: and sick leave, so full time workers are entitled to
40:42
Speaker 1: paid annual leave, typically four weeks each and every single
40:45
Speaker 1: year unless negotiated otherwise, and personal or careers leave so
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Speaker 1: sickly based on the National Employment Standards or the NES,
40:54
Speaker 1: which you can google for your industry. We then have
40:57
Speaker 1: parental leave, so the NES provides for unpaid parental leave
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Speaker 1: for eligible employees, including maternity and paternity leave. The Australian
41:05
Speaker 1: government also offers the Paid Parental Leave Scheme, providing financial
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Speaker 1: assistance to eligible parents, which is very cool. And then
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Speaker 1: the last one I've popped on my list is a
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Speaker 1: workplace Health and Safety because I just think it's really
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Speaker 1: important to work in a safe environment. But employers are
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Speaker 1: obligated to maintain a safe and healthy work environment and
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Speaker 1: provide appropriate training and resources to ensure that your safety
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Speaker 1: is put first. Back That's all I've got on my list.
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Speaker 4: My friend, Wow, Okay, so it turns out it's not
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Speaker 4: so scary. I think it's not scary at all. I
41:36
Speaker 4: promise cool. I think it's a really good place to
41:38
Speaker 4: leave it. I would say at this point to all
41:41
Speaker 4: our community members and listeners, go forth in good luck
41:45
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Speaker 1: You can do this, know you're worth And then ad
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Speaker 4: That's it. I love that, all right, guys.
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41:56
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