[mcherm]

Wow, I get the sense that you had a really terrible experience someplace. I hope you get over it.

I do agree that there is a strong psychological component to the interactions with an employer over salary, and that it is good to keep this in mind when negotiating. But "forget about ever asking for more money where you're at" is demonstrably bad advice.

[codeonfire]

It's not demonstrably. Asking for a raise you're not going to get after you just got one is going to get your name on all sorts of lists such "person unhappy with his or her compensation", "ungrateful employee", and "people that haven't learned the game yet." Is that worth an extra $1-2k per year if you can just get $10k more somewhere else? Even if a company did give a small retention raise the employee would just be docked at the next review time.

[mcherm]

Many people have requested raises and received them. This demonstrates that "forget about ever asking for more money where you're at" is untrue. Perhaps there is truth in "it is often bad to ask for more money where you are at", or perhaps not, but your blanket statements, knowing nothing of the original poster's company or his role there, are simply unsupportable.