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Hi, Barbara, my name is Hannah and I'm from Brainer, Minnesota.

I was just wondering what a polite but assertive way to ask for a raise of B, what kind of key

points do I want to hit, that would be great, thank you, bye.

Hannah, I could tell you're extremely polite just by the way you phrase your question,

you don't have to worry about being polite, I would think you might worry about being

over polite and not assertive enough.

You're the kind of person with your very lovely manner, you could be super aggressive

and nobody will even read it as that because you have that nice soft edge to you.

So going to this whole question with the idea in mind, you want to be assertive, you

don't have to worry about being too assertive, it's not your nature.

So with an eye toward assertiveness, here are, I believe, the essential steps to asking

for any raise from any boss in any circumstance.

First of all, understand that bosses don't give raises to people for doing the same job

they did last year.

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