# You're Gonna Pay Me HOW Much?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2007, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457 "2007-04-10T10:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuyNblueJeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457/21 "2007-04-11T07:09:11Z")
I’m jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457/22 "2007-04-11T09:12:56Z")
Oh yes, most definitely better to make a lot of money than a little money (says I, posting from work so I can call overseas - Australian time zones for the lose!) Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![CeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457/23 "2007-04-11T09:49:15Z")
Oh! Oh! I’m so excited for you! How are you going to celebrate? I know you don’t want to rush out and raise your standard of living so that you spend all your new-found earnings. But you should seriously buy yourself a new suit! Or a book! Or whatever else you have a craving for. Did you get a new office or a bigger cubicle? Access to better office supplies? Do you get to tell people what to do now? So! Exciting! ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457/24 "2007-04-11T10:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=CeilingWhacks] Oh! Oh! I’m so excited for you! How are you going to celebrate? I know you don’t want to rush out and raise your standard of living so that you spend all your new-found earnings. But you should seriously buy yourself a new suit! Or a book! Or whatever else you have a craving for. [/quote] Well, I’ve increased my automatic savings per week (boringly) for the amount of the raise - starting next week! This week, I am buying books and shoes, and a new computer game. We’re already looking for a house to buy, and so we’ve been really good with money. Plus, I _was_ the financial manager, so I’m good with money anyway. But one week’s pay of frivolity, yeah, I’m gonna do that. > [@](#): > > Did you get a new office or a bigger cubicle? Access to better office supplies? Do you get to tell people what to do now? > > So! Exciting! We are one of those rare places where we have actual offices with doors. I do get the bigger office with the window wall (with a stunning view of the parking lot and the loading dock door, whoo hoo!) Of course, its HOT in summer and COLD in winter, but I have a window wall, so there you go. I’s impawtant! I do get to tell people what to do - but I got to do that before, now I just get to tell more people what to do, and make decisions without running it by half the office first. We’re not a huge office, but we’re part of a huge multi-national. I think the best perk is I now get to go to the AGM in Japan this year (its split between Japan and Australia, as we are both small parts of a big Italian coffee company.) I still have gorgeous Italian men making me coffee in the morning, but that’s mostly because I have proven to be dangerous with milk. (Espresso coffee, I can do, the boys have taught me well. Stretching milk, I don’t actually do very well, and I have the distinction of being the only person they have ever seen manage to get milk on the ceiling. I get a lot of, “Oh NO, Bella, NO, don’t touch…er…I’m happy to make you coffee, allow me!” :smack: ) Office supplies, meh, we don’t lock the cabinet (there’s 5 people in our office, not counting the drivers and the warehouse and the shop that can get to it, so its not that big a deal, and nobody is uptight about what you order. My CEO is cool like that.) I think, though, I will get me a red Swingline stapler in the next order. It’s good to be king! 😉 Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457/25 "2007-04-11T11:16:33Z")
Woohoo! Congratulations! Wishing you luck and joy in your new career! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-pay-me-how-much/399457.md?page=1)