How to ask your Boss for a salary increase..?

CA Thomas Raju Paravada (Chartered Accountant) (570 Points)

04 September 2008  

One day an employee sends a letter to Her boss asking for an increase in her  salary !!! 
  
   
Dear Bo$$  
   In thi$ life, we all need   $ome thing$ mo$t de $ perately. I think you $hould be under $tanding of the need$ of your worker $ who have given $ o much $upport including $ weat and $ervice to your company .
 
I am $ure you will gue $$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.
 

  $ incerely Your$
                Piyu$h 



The next day, the employee received a nice reply like this :


 
 
  Dear $ain 
  
  
   I kNOw what you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt  doing   NO ticeably well as yet .
 
NO w the newspaper are saying the world`s leading ecoNO mists are NO t sure if the United States may go into  aNO ther recession. After the   NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad .
 
I have  NOthing more to add NOw. You kNO w what I mean .
 
Yours truly,
Manager