I’m about to be laid off from my current position for reasons outside of my control, so I’ve been interviewing for other positions. I have over 23 years’ experience in my industry and was talking to a company and they said part of their package was 2 weeks of vaca for the first 3 years. I tried to negotiate for 3 weeks off the bat. I said, listen, you’re targeting a senior resource for this role and I’m earning over 5 weeks at my current role. Unless you can offer at LEAST 3 weeks, imma keep looking. He understood and said he would take it to the CEO but didn’t think it would get anywhere. I’ll be damned if he didn’t come back and say he was able to convince the CEO to change everyone’s starting vaca to 3 weeks moving forward.
It’s the small victories.