One of my cousin asked me about this career problem he is facing. I thought, I will share with your guys and seek your opinions.

He is currently working with this company as senior support. It has been around 1 year only now they want to confirm him. His previously had a contract of 6 month. That means he has been working for 6 months without contract and could have leave anytime.

Now, eventually the company offered him confirmation which he is reluctant to sign up. The salary did not increase. Previously, his manager promised will have little increment. His current salary is okay. Not high and not low. Maybe a little on the low side for the extra things he has been doing for the company.

He is thinking of resigning cause he is unhappy about the delay and not no increment. Currently he is taking quite a lot of responsibility and company will definitely need him. He felt the company is taking advantage of current economy situation and not increase his salary.

He have a family to take care but also have some side income. Resigning will not make a big dent to him. He should be able to last 6month or so.

Pros about this company:
- flexible working hour (late also no problem but not too much)
- relaxed environment
- immediate superior is okay

Cons
- sometimes need to work at night and weekends
- always need to work from home (hence the flexible hour)
- stingy boss
- work got difficulty due to bad management
- lack of SOP
- work other things out of his responsibility
- don't see much future in this company

Question :
1) Should he accept and sign the confirmation?
2) Should he re-negotiate? He did tried before.
3) Should he just resign?
4) Look for other jobs first then resign?

My advice to him is (3) since he have side income. Let the company feel the wrath for trying to take advantage of staffs.

What you guys think or advice?

nego with boss for increment
while looking for a new job

for the nego use
1) boss say b4 got increment
2) additional job load

cant give basic salary increase, then pls arrange Hardship/Standby Allowance due to being on standby and always need to work from home.

The extension is because of delay from his boss and management. They are taking their own sweet time since my cousin did not really push them.

However, right before the confirmation letter, his boss did discuss with him about his confirmation. Says, can't increase that much and only increase a little. Then my cousin also suggested other compensation method like internet connection allowance (cause need to work from home also) or car allowance. The boss agreed and said will talk to management.

How, come out nothing. Imagine the disappointment.

Looking for job is not really an issue. My cousin should be able to find some freelance jobs to do. He also sort of fed up working for chinamen company now. The company is not doing that badly.

You guys think he should re-negotiate eh?

For me, personally I felt he already negotiated with his boss previously. Then would have come up with a better package for him. But they didn't. So what's the point to keep on negotiating? No fun already lah.

They call it flexibility but the intention behind is to make you work more for less.
You can ONLY be FLEXIBLE if you work from anywhere ONLY during office hours or fulfilling your 8 hours a day. Anything after that you should be paid for overtime, allowances or even accordingly should you assume an executive role(without overtime)

I just spoke to my cousin. He said the company got a lot of shitz already. This is due to management taking own sweet time to solve problems. Talk only good but when pay money to do, keep delay. Until customer find out only want to say sorry and fix the problem. If he stay 2 more months there, sure will take more shitz. Always have to lie to customers on things that is clearly the company's fault.

I dunno leh. He seems eager to resign next week. But I ask him better get another job first. He said he tried for the past few months but it's easy lah.