How to ask your workplace for unreasonable adjustments
Added 2024-07-12 10:00:03 +0000 UTC
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You’ve somehow managed to sell your workplace on reasonable adjustments, like noise-cancelling headphones, work-from-home days and you’ve won the war on Becky’s lunchtime tuna melts - so why not throw in a few extras, just to see if you can? Here’s how to ask your workplace for unreasonable accommodations.
Write a list of demands
An awed hush should descend whenever you enter the room, laughing at your jokes should be mandatory on pain of death and your office should contain a minimum of three merry alpacas. Get creative, as the more you ask for, the more they’ll respect you.
Title that list “list of demands!!!!!!”
Be sure to include at least five exclamation marks to show you mean business.
CC everybody
And we mean everybody. You don’t want to get a reputation as a pushover.
Take prisoners
A successful negotiation needs leverage. Grabbing the most senior members of staff you can find and locking them in a stationery cupboard until your demands are met is a baller power move.
Never compromise
No, you will not accept llamas instead of alpacas. You know your worth.
Update your CV
You need to be fully prepared to walk if you don’t get what you want. Or be removed by security.
Comments
Honestly this is the bare minimum I expect from now on
Katie
2024-07-12 10:58:39 +0000 UTC
