Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the wildfires in New Jersey, Donald Trump’s announcement about the National Guard going into Chicago, and the meeting between Congress and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. Larry talks to Vickie Paladino about the NYC Mayoral race and the best strategy to use to beat Zohran Mamdani. Greg Giangrande joins Larry to talk about how and when to go about asking for a raise in the current job climate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, good morning to you. I will tell you it's
been a tough morning for firefighters in West Milford Township.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is battling right now
a wildfire in the area of Clinton Road in West
Milford Township. Late last night, they reported that seventy acres
were ablaze and none of it was contained. We've got
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no report since then. There's supposed to be a report
out at eight thirty. Wildfire is considered a major wildfire
if it exceeds one hundred acres in size. This was seventy,
so you would think that it's gotten bigger than that,
unless unless the firefighters did phenomenal work overnight. But again,
the next update is at eight thirty. It hasn't really
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threatened any homes. This is in the Clinton Reservoir in
Passaic County, and so as of the last report on this,
it was a wildfire that was just can to the
reserve and firefighters again are doing their darnedness right now
to contain this thing. We'll have an update at eight
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thirty this morning. Also in the Big Three, well, Donald
Trump says he doesn't care what they say in Chicago.
He's going in Well, we're going in. I didn't say
when we're going in when you lose. Look, I have
an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation.
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He has an obligation, he says, to fight crime. After
meeting with ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein's the House Oversight
Committee releases to the public all of the documents they have.
But they say that's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What's going to change everything is tomorrow at ten thirty,
when we have the survivors testifying in public, some of
whom have never spoken publicly, and they've already met with
the Oversight commitdian enemies allegedly a very emotional meeting, and
that's all behind closed doores.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But it's going to be open.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
To the public.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah. That's Republican Thomas Massey, who has been out on
front and fighting for these files. By the way, when
he says tomorrow at ten thirty, that was yesterday. So
that's today at ten thirty, which will be a public
hearing with many of the victims testifying. We don't know
exactly how many. We don't know how many there were
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ten that testified behind closed doors. Not all of them
are willing to testify in public. Well. In the New
York mayor's race, candidate Jim Walden, who was running fifth
with about three percent of the vote, has ended his
campaign and he's urging other candidates to do the same.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But at this point, it's really important that there'd be
one free market candidate against the socialist agenda of mister Mumdani.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And it was the first day back to school yesterday
many kids in New York. And it was the first
day of the no cell phones policy, which got mixed reviews.
I don't really like it. I'll comely is like is
born today?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I felt like like I paid attention.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah productive.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Is that a good thing?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it's a good thing. Now let's talk about the
mayor's race, because something significant happened yesterday. Jim Walden dropped
out of the race. He was running fifth, getting about
three percent of the vote. Uh. But good for him.
He said from the beginning, if I didn't pick up steam,
I wasn't gonna waste anybody else's money and I was
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going to drop out of the race. So he did.
But he's also urging others to drop out of the
race as well, and he said they need to decide
by the end of the month. And when he said
when he says others, he's specifically talking about Eric Adams
and Curtis Sliwa. He said, look, if if you aren't
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there by the end of the month, if you're not competing,
then get out. There is too much at stake.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think that most New Yorkers do not want a
mayor who is advancing antisemitic policies, who has in prior
years embraced actual terrorists, and someone who is so imbued
by anti police bigotry. Because that's really what it is.
He said he wanted to dismantle the police. He called
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them wicked and corrupt. You can't walk away from those words.
And if we've learned anything in our politics, it's when
someone says something, believe them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jim Walden, former assistant US Attorney and very high profile
attorney in this town. He's also a mixed martial arts fighter,
is now out of the race. But build the Blasio.
Build the Blasio has now endorsed a candidate. Boy, just
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guess who that is. Guess who that would be?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Zorin Mom, Donnie, Yes, we need police for a variety
of situations, But why don't we flood the zone with
mental health workers to help get a lot of those
people off the streets and create more of a sense
of order. I think what people got to say from
the wrong when he's mayor is actually, he will be
able to do things that previous mayors didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh yeah, he's gonna do a lot of things that
previous mayors didn't do. He's not going to get a
whole lot accomplished, but he's going to ruin the city.
There is absolutely no question about that that the city
will be ruined under him, because specifically what he wants
to do to the police force. I am so happy
that crime has taken center stage now in this race
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because that is where zurin mom Donnie is the weakest.
Everything else he says is fantasy, but a lot of
people buy into it. So he's not weak on that
because that's really what's fueling his campaign, and nobody's been
able to break through by saying, Look, he can't do
all these things, but crime. Crime is visceral, and crime
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scares people. They don't want you to take a chance
on crime. They don't want you to promise social workers
when they need police.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Part of that is taking mental health response homelessness out
of the police department set of responsibilities such that they
can actually follow through other responsibilities that give New Yorkers
a real sense of trust and peace in the city
that they call home.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes, so he wants to send social workers, which he
said all along, and he keeps doubling down on to
domestic violence calls, and any police officer will tell you
that that is one of the most dangerous situations. That's
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when you need a police officer. So when you send
a social worker to an already volatile situation and they
try to talk them down, that doesn't always work. So
you're gonna end up sending a police officer anyway, and
hopefully the social worker has not been assaulted or killed
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at that point. It is dangerous what we're talking about
right now. And I don't know why this doesn't sink through.
There is something going on where logic has gone out
the window because he keeps promising things he can't deliver,
and the things he can deliver on are scary.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
He is a danger to New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He is dangerous and he is reckless because of his
inexperience and his political philosophy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, it's the phone former, it's the political philosophy the latter,
I should say, that's what's so scary about him. Yeah,
I don't care about his lack of experience. I really
don't care about that. I care about what he says
he's going to do. He puts it all out there
for you. He's not trying to hide what he wants
to do. And it's the lack of experience of the
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voters that scares me. Because there's all these young voters
that go, ah, that sounds good, that sounds good. We're
all going to Disneyland. You know, it's it is pie
in the sky stuff. But when you're young and inexperienced,
you can buy into that. And that's what he's hoping for.
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He's hoping for a huge block of voters that don't
know any better. They just see the big free sign
on the storefront window and believe it's really for free
when it's not. There's a huge cost for the things
he can get done. You know, he can't raise taxes.
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He can't. He can't do that by himself. The corporate
tax that he keeps saying he's gonna raise to get
money for all the free buses and the free childcare
and the government stores and all the socialist things he
wants to do. He can't get the money for that.
He'll never be able to get the money for that.
That's all a lie, it will never happen. And yet
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there are so many people that just see free and
they don't care how he does it, and so they're
gonna vote for him because he promises free. Everything about
this guy is scary. So I believe what Jim Walden
is saying. Other people do need to drop out, and
I'm sorry that includes Curtis Lee. If he doesn't, if
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he doesn't rise dramatically in the polls, it should be
time for him to get out. Although I love his policies,
especially about the police.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Do you want social workers to deal with these gang
problems hit are plaguing your burrow, Because that's what Za
Mondami wants.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He wants social working. He does not want additional cops, right,
and Curtis Lee will want seven thousand more cops, and
that's exactly what we need, more cops, not more social workers.
But he wants to take that money. He keeps saying
he doesn't want to defund the police, but he wants
to take the money away from the police and hire
more social workers. So yeah, that's that's defunding. We'll talk
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more about that over the next couple of hours. Well,
there was a magical moment at a wedding at Saint
Peter's Cathedral when a young woman was about to get
married and something wonderful happened. We'll tell you what that
was next. Now let's get to Vicki Pallandino, new York
City council member represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens with
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us every Wednesday at this time, and Vicky, I wanted
to talk to you about Jim Walden dropping out of
the race. Not that that's that significant because he never
caught fire. He's about three percent in the polls. But
what was significant is what he said from the very beginning,
and that is, if I don't see a path to victory,
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I'm going to drop out. And I think others with
no path the victory should do the same so we
can stop zorin. Mom, Donnie, do you think the same thing.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
He was very profound. I mean, I always liked the guy.
There was something about him that I saw in the debates.
There's something real about this guy, and that just goes
to show that anybody who felt that way was correct.
Decent human beings saw the riding on the wall. But
let's remember also, his polling numbers were so so incredibly
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low that he did absolutely the right thing to do,
which was to drop out. As far as anybody else goes,
I think we all know that Cuomo is not going anywhere,
Adams is not going anywhere, and Curtis is having a
surge that I don't think really should be ignored anymore.
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And I'll tell you why I think that he was.
He spoke last night at a place in Queen's called
north Shore Towers. North Shore Towers populates thousands of people
and it's blue dog liberal Democrats, and he filled the
auditorium last night that speaks volumes they would never they rarely,
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if ever, had a Republican speak there. So he got
up on that stage and he stated exactly what his
plans are, which was an excellent way to go because
his first line was I could get up here and
talk about the other candidates, but I won't do that.
Let me lay out my vision. And he took it
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from there, and the crowd loved it. So you know,
the other thing that's worth mentioning, Larry is the fact
that Zoe Ran has never been able to break more
than forty percent in his polling. If you notice that,
you know, he's not bringing any new voters to a
so called coalition. And uh, you know that one poll,
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I think it was a week or two ago, everybody
was freaking out because he pulled at fifty percent. Well
that's fifty percent was an anomaly. He was done by
his own people. So and who's just people, Larry. He's
not popular with the working class New Yorkers. He's not
popular you know, with our bus drivers and with our
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you know, real people's. He's he's with these affluent transplants,
you know, young people, and uh, you know this is it.
They work for non for profits.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, I know, I know who he is, and I'm
afraid of him, and I, like you are, I'm afraid
of him. So let me ask you this question, let
me rephrase you. Yeah, because I love Curtis Lee with
two I do. He's been great to me in my
career and I and I'm a friend and I hope
he does well. However, right, if Cuomo is a running
second and it's a month from now and it looks
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like Zoramam Donnie is going to win. Wouldn't it be
wise for not only Eric Adams, but Curtis Lee would
a drop out?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
And like you say, he's a friend of mine too,
and a really good friend of mine. You know what, Larry,
I won't speak to that because in my opinion, he's
a legitimate and I think in everybody's opinion he is
a legitimate Republican candidate. I know what everybody's saying about Cuomo.
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I'm gonna still take that weight and see attitude because
zoean it's an oxymoron that he's the legitimate Democrat candidate,
because he's not. He's a Democrat socialist. However, let's see
how Cuomo does. Cuomo is still I feel, I don't
care what the pole say. He's lacking the vest and
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he's lacking uh that that that push that he really
needs to do, uh to show up against this young person.
I think Curtis brings such a history with him and
such a good history with him that, uh, it's just
the fabric of Curtis Leewa. So I would say, let's
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wait this out. Let's see what's going to happen? Happy
September everybody?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, how long are you willing to wait? Before years?
You say, you.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Know, I'm gonna I'm going to go a couple of
weeks in, Larry, I'm going to go into We're only
on the third of September. I'm going to go into
like next week when we speak, and definitely the week
after that. I think we're going to have to have
some very serious conversations. But with that to the side,
you know, you said you know Curtis and you say
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you're a friend and you know him, so I know
him too. U do you honestly in your gut that
this guy is gonna pull out no matter what the
poland nuverse days?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No, I don't. I don't, absolutely don't. And by the way,
if it's saving the city from a socialist, if it is,
and I'm not saying we're at that point right now,
if it is, I hope he does the right thing.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yes, you know, I think everybody's hoping for that. And
like I said, there's a lot of conversation going on,
but not about dropping out. There's a lot of conversation
going on in the campaign that you know, you could
do this. You could do this, but it comes a
time Larry where numbers don't lie, and uh, you know,
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we will have to decide from that point going forward.
I spoke yesterday. Oh by the way, if I could
push this out, Hey, everybody, Vicky Palladino's running for office.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Vicky, I didn't forget that.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't forget that. We got carried away with this conversation.
Let me do that. You'll be back next week. That's
all we'll talk about, is your campaign. Okay, let's do
it now.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
No, no, no, no, I don't want to talk about it.
My grand opening is this Saturday at the Bay Terror
Shopping Center from one to four, my campaign headquarters. If
anybody wants to come, Oh joy us. It's the Bay
TERRORCE Shopping Center in Baseiquin.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Where we got that in great Thank you very much. Counsel.
Counsel Woman Vicki Palladino is with us every Wednesday at
eight o five. Welcome back. So do you have a
hard time talking about money with your boss, talking about
your salary with your boss? I know, I do. I
know a lot of people really have a problem with this.
Getting up the courage to go in and talk about
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their salary. Greg gan Grande is the person to go
to for this career advice expert with us every Wednesday
at this time. You can check them out at go
to Greg dot com. I love that you're talking about
this today, Greg, because who knows and how do you
know when it's the right time to go in and
ask for a raise?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Well, great, great topic and questions, and I can tell
you that generally what's going on in the labor market
right now, the conditions aren't great for asking for a
raise because so many companies are looking at how they
can implement AI to slow down hiring, to even do
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some layoffs. So you have to be really careful with
the approach and the timing. A couple of things that's
really important for everyone to understand. Most companies have a
compensation structure for every role, and each role has a
salary range that's benchmarked against the market. And where you're
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paid and how much the company is willing to pay
is based on really two things. Your performance and your
overall value to the company and things you need more
money for your personal finances or cost of living. Are
never good reasons for asking for a race.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, It's interesting what you said because of the current conditions.
It sounds like you are saying read the room like
read the economy right now, because there's a good time
to go in and ask, and there's a bad time
to go in and ask. And it may not just
be in your workplace, but across the country. You have
to you have to figure out what the good time
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is to go in and now may not be the
best time.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Right so correct a good time is if you've taken
on more responsibility. So it could even be that your
company is conducting some layoffs and the people who remain
are given bigger jobs and more responsibility. I wouldn't say
immediately after that, but after a period of time, at
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least six months to a year. If you've been given
responsibility as a result of even a negative time at
the company where they've been contracting, it could be appropriate
then to ask for a raise. If you've reached a
major milestone, you delivered on a key initiative, a key
project that was really important to the company, that could
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be a good time. And certainly if the company has
a structured performance review process where you're supposed to be
talking about your career learning development, growth and compensation. That
would be a good time to have these discussions, but
it should be part of a normal flow of how
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you are performing and you demonstrating your value and your impact,
and not because you want more money or you need
more money, and never as a threat that some competitor
or somebody else is offering you more.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Greg you're great at reading both sides of the room
and the both the employers and the employees are employees,
can you just wait for them? Are they pretty good
at knowing when they should give you a raise?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Are employers good at knowing lawyers?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah. I would say that it is a fair
assessment that most companies try to pay as much as
they have to to keep their talent, but not a
penny more so, there are very few companies saying I
think you're doing a great job and you're not complaining
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about how much you're getting paid, but I want to
give you more anyway. Typically that would happen if a
company is promoting you and you're really top talent and
there's someone they're afraid of losing. I think those people
who fall into that category, companies are pretty good at
making sure that they're keeping them at the high end
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of the range. Everyone else, there's the normal review process.
Companies have an annual merit review process, or if you're
part of a union, that's already built into your tracks.
I wouldn't say for the majority of employees, this is
top of mind for management to think about how to
give more employees more money.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So you go in, you ask for a raise and
you're told no, What do you do.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Next, Well, you need to understand why no and what
does no mean? No because you're not performing well. No
because the budget is closed and not until the next
budget cycle. You have to understand what that means and why,
because in that dictate whether or not you should start
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looking for another job. It could be no, you're not
really performing well and so you're lucky you have a job,
let alone asking for a raise. It could be a response.
Do you think that you have to understand what the
no means and why and if there's an opportunity for
it to be reconsidered in the future, and what those
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conditions would be. What do you have to do, how
do you take on more, what do you need to
see in your performance, et cetera in order for that
no to turn into a yes.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
For most people, Man, it's such a stressful thing to
do to get up the courage to figure out what
you're going to say. What are the what are the
real preparations you should take before you enter the boss's office.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The facts of what you do, what you've delivered, how
you've demonstrated value to the company, and where your compensation
is relative to the market. So that's easy to find
now with so much publicly available information and compensation. If
you are someone who is valued by the company, and
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you can demonstrate that value by the accomplishments you've had,
and you can demonstrate that relative to the market, you're
not at the top end. Those are the kind of
research and preparation you can do to walk into a
conversation like this and have the best chance for a
better outcome.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, Greg, you're an HR.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You've been in the room when the person came and
they did a subtle I don't want to say threat,
but you how many times does that work out for
that person? Like, oh, there's so many other opportunities I
really want to stay here, but but but like zero.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So depending on the person, you can probably get away
with that once. For most people, it's okay, Well, if
you feel you can find a better opportunity paying more
elsewhere than good luck to you, so you run the
risk of getting that response, which is why you never
want to make a threat. If you are interested in
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testing your market value, go out and get a job offer,
and then you are certainly welcome to let your employer
know that you have a job offer. You better be
prepared to take it because they may just say, well,
we're sorry to lose you good luck. But if you're
doing it just as leverage to try to get more money,
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and then your boss says that and you don't really
want that job, you're going to look awfully foolish by saying,
all right, well never mind, I'll stay Wait a second.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Isn't it a good idea to already have the job
offer when you go in, Like exactly, yeah, you go
in and gay o, that's what I thought you were saying.
So yeah, no, it'd be wonderful to walk in, and
then you have to decide between the two jobs.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's real leverage because you are willing to actually walk away.
There are some people who go out and get job
offers because they think that'll prompt their employer to give
them more money and they have no intention of taking
that job offer. And I know a lot of people
It's happened in my career where people have come to
me and I've said, well, I'm sorry, we would love
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to keep you, but there's not anything more that we
can do, and then the person kind of with the
tail between the legs says, well, you know what, I
really really thought about it, and I'm happier here and
I'm just going to stay here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Oh no, you have to be prepared to leave. And
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Everybody does, and I've seen people from BAC saying, Okay,
you know, I really love it here, and the extra
money I can earn elsewhere, while important to me, that's
not more important than might.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Happen the company knows.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
They really are not happy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You're dead man walking at that point. You're dead, that's it,
that's it. You might as well leave at that point,
no exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Which is why I said, if you're going to go out
and get a job offer, and you're going to use
this leverage, you better be prepared to take that offer.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Thanks so much, Greg, g and Grande. I don't think
I'm ever going to ask for a raise. Ever after
hearing this from you, that was the whole point. He's
an HR guy. He wanted to scare us all away
from every asking for a raise. That's what that was
all about. Greg gian Grande career advice expert with us
every Wednesday at this time. You can check them out
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at godogreg dot com. Thanks a lot, Greg, always a
pleasure when we come back. My final thoughts, a recap
of today's show and the talk back of the morning
Well, good morning to you. I will tell you it's
been a tough morning for firefighters in West Milford Township.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is battling right now
a wildfire in the area of Clinton Road in West
Milford Township. Late last night, they reported that seventy acres
were ablaze and none of it was contained. We've got
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no report since then. There's supposed to be a report
out at eight thirty. Wildfire is considered a major wildfire
if it exceeds one hundred acres in size. This was seventy,
so you would think that it's gotten bigger than that,
unless unless the firefighters did phenomenal work overnight. But again,
the next update is at eight thirty. It hasn't really
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threatened any homes. This is in the Clinton Reservoir in
Passaic County, and so as of the last report on this,
it was a wildfire that was just can to the
reserve and firefighters again are doing their darnedness right now
to contain this thing. We'll have an update at eight
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thirty this morning. Also in the Big Three, well, Donald
Trump says he doesn't care what they say in Chicago.
He's going in Well, we're going in. I didn't say
when we're going in when you lose. Look, I have
an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation.
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He has an obligation, he says, to fight crime. After
meeting with ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein's the House Oversight
Committee releases to the public all of the documents they have.
But they say that's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What's going to change everything is tomorrow at ten thirty,
when we have the survivors testifying in public, some of
whom have never spoken publicly, and they've already met with
the Oversight commitdian enemies allegedly a very emotional meeting, and
that's all behind closed doores.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But it's going to be open.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
To the public.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah. That's Republican Thomas Massey, who has been out on
front and fighting for these files. By the way, when
he says tomorrow at ten thirty, that was yesterday. So
that's today at ten thirty, which will be a public
hearing with many of the victims testifying. We don't know
exactly how many. We don't know how many there were
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ten that testified behind closed doors. Not all of them
are willing to testify in public. Well. In the New
York mayor's race, candidate Jim Walden, who was running fifth
with about three percent of the vote, has ended his
campaign and he's urging other candidates to do the same.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But at this point, it's really important that there'd be
one free market candidate against the socialist agenda of mister Mumdani.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And it was the first day back to school yesterday
many kids in New York. And it was the first
day of the no cell phones policy, which got mixed reviews.
I don't really like it. I'll comely is like is
born today?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I felt like like I paid attention.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah productive.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Is that a good thing?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it's a good thing. Now let's talk about the
mayor's race, because something significant happened yesterday. Jim Walden dropped
out of the race. He was running fifth, getting about
three percent of the vote. Uh. But good for him.
He said from the beginning, if I didn't pick up steam,
I wasn't gonna waste anybody else's money and I was
(03:38):
going to drop out of the race. So he did.
But he's also urging others to drop out of the
race as well, and he said they need to decide
by the end of the month. And when he said
when he says others, he's specifically talking about Eric Adams
and Curtis Sliwa. He said, look, if if you aren't
(03:59):
there by the end of the month, if you're not competing,
then get out. There is too much at stake.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think that most New Yorkers do not want a
mayor who is advancing antisemitic policies, who has in prior
years embraced actual terrorists, and someone who is so imbued
by anti police bigotry. Because that's really what it is.
He said he wanted to dismantle the police. He called
(04:26):
them wicked and corrupt. You can't walk away from those words.
And if we've learned anything in our politics, it's when
someone says something, believe them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jim Walden, former assistant US Attorney and very high profile
attorney in this town. He's also a mixed martial arts fighter,
is now out of the race. But build the Blasio.
Build the Blasio has now endorsed a candidate. Boy, just
(04:57):
guess who that is. Guess who that would be?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Zorin Mom, Donnie, Yes, we need police for a variety
of situations, But why don't we flood the zone with
mental health workers to help get a lot of those
people off the streets and create more of a sense
of order. I think what people got to say from
the wrong when he's mayor is actually, he will be
able to do things that previous mayors didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh yeah, he's gonna do a lot of things that
previous mayors didn't do. He's not going to get a
whole lot accomplished, but he's going to ruin the city.
There is absolutely no question about that that the city
will be ruined under him, because specifically what he wants
to do to the police force. I am so happy
that crime has taken center stage now in this race
(05:43):
because that is where zurin mom Donnie is the weakest.
Everything else he says is fantasy, but a lot of
people buy into it. So he's not weak on that
because that's really what's fueling his campaign, and nobody's been
able to break through by saying, Look, he can't do
all these things, but crime. Crime is visceral, and crime
(06:07):
scares people. They don't want you to take a chance
on crime. They don't want you to promise social workers
when they need police.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Part of that is taking mental health response homelessness out
of the police department set of responsibilities such that they
can actually follow through other responsibilities that give New Yorkers
a real sense of trust and peace in the city
that they call home.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes, so he wants to send social workers, which he
said all along, and he keeps doubling down on to
domestic violence calls, and any police officer will tell you
that that is one of the most dangerous situations. That's
(06:50):
when you need a police officer. So when you send
a social worker to an already volatile situation and they
try to talk them down, that doesn't always work. So
you're gonna end up sending a police officer anyway, and
hopefully the social worker has not been assaulted or killed
(07:14):
at that point. It is dangerous what we're talking about
right now. And I don't know why this doesn't sink through.
There is something going on where logic has gone out
the window because he keeps promising things he can't deliver,
and the things he can deliver on are scary.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
He is a danger to New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He is dangerous and he is reckless because of his
inexperience and his political philosophy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, it's the phone former, it's the political philosophy the latter,
I should say, that's what's so scary about him. Yeah,
I don't care about his lack of experience. I really
don't care about that. I care about what he says
he's going to do. He puts it all out there
for you. He's not trying to hide what he wants
to do. And it's the lack of experience of the
(08:12):
voters that scares me. Because there's all these young voters
that go, ah, that sounds good, that sounds good. We're
all going to Disneyland. You know, it's it is pie
in the sky stuff. But when you're young and inexperienced,
you can buy into that. And that's what he's hoping for.
(08:34):
He's hoping for a huge block of voters that don't
know any better. They just see the big free sign
on the storefront window and believe it's really for free
when it's not. There's a huge cost for the things
he can get done. You know, he can't raise taxes.
(08:57):
He can't. He can't do that by himself. The corporate
tax that he keeps saying he's gonna raise to get
money for all the free buses and the free childcare
and the government stores and all the socialist things he
wants to do. He can't get the money for that.
He'll never be able to get the money for that.
That's all a lie, it will never happen. And yet
(09:18):
there are so many people that just see free and
they don't care how he does it, and so they're
gonna vote for him because he promises free. Everything about
this guy is scary. So I believe what Jim Walden
is saying. Other people do need to drop out, and
I'm sorry that includes Curtis Lee. If he doesn't, if
(09:42):
he doesn't rise dramatically in the polls, it should be
time for him to get out. Although I love his policies,
especially about the police.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Do you want social workers to deal with these gang
problems hit are plaguing your burrow, Because that's what Za
Mondami wants.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He wants social working. He does not want additional cops, right,
and Curtis Lee will want seven thousand more cops, and
that's exactly what we need, more cops, not more social workers.
But he wants to take that money. He keeps saying
he doesn't want to defund the police, but he wants
to take the money away from the police and hire
more social workers. So yeah, that's that's defunding. We'll talk
(10:21):
more about that over the next couple of hours. Well,
there was a magical moment at a wedding at Saint
Peter's Cathedral when a young woman was about to get
married and something wonderful happened. We'll tell you what that
was next. Now let's get to Vicki Pallandino, new York
City council member represents District nineteen of Northeast Queens with
(10:42):
us every Wednesday at this time, and Vicky, I wanted
to talk to you about Jim Walden dropping out of
the race. Not that that's that significant because he never
caught fire. He's about three percent in the polls. But
what was significant is what he said from the very beginning,
and that is, if I don't see a path to victory,
(11:03):
I'm going to drop out. And I think others with
no path the victory should do the same so we
can stop zorin. Mom, Donnie, do you think the same thing.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
He was very profound. I mean, I always liked the guy.
There was something about him that I saw in the debates.
There's something real about this guy, and that just goes
to show that anybody who felt that way was correct.
Decent human beings saw the riding on the wall. But
let's remember also, his polling numbers were so so incredibly
(11:39):
low that he did absolutely the right thing to do,
which was to drop out. As far as anybody else goes,
I think we all know that Cuomo is not going anywhere,
Adams is not going anywhere, and Curtis is having a
surge that I don't think really should be ignored anymore.
(12:00):
And I'll tell you why I think that he was.
He spoke last night at a place in Queen's called
north Shore Towers. North Shore Towers populates thousands of people
and it's blue dog liberal Democrats, and he filled the
auditorium last night that speaks volumes they would never they rarely,
(12:24):
if ever, had a Republican speak there. So he got
up on that stage and he stated exactly what his
plans are, which was an excellent way to go because
his first line was I could get up here and
talk about the other candidates, but I won't do that.
Let me lay out my vision. And he took it
(12:45):
from there, and the crowd loved it. So you know,
the other thing that's worth mentioning, Larry is the fact
that Zoe Ran has never been able to break more
than forty percent in his polling. If you notice that,
you know, he's not bringing any new voters to a
so called coalition. And uh, you know that one poll,
(13:06):
I think it was a week or two ago, everybody
was freaking out because he pulled at fifty percent. Well
that's fifty percent was an anomaly. He was done by
his own people. So and who's just people, Larry. He's
not popular with the working class New Yorkers. He's not
popular you know, with our bus drivers and with our
(13:28):
you know, real people's. He's he's with these affluent transplants,
you know, young people, and uh, you know this is it.
They work for non for profits.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, I know, I know who he is, and I'm
afraid of him, and I, like you are, I'm afraid
of him. So let me ask you this question, let
me rephrase you. Yeah, because I love Curtis Lee with
two I do. He's been great to me in my
career and I and I'm a friend and I hope
he does well. However, right, if Cuomo is a running
second and it's a month from now and it looks
(14:04):
like Zoramam Donnie is going to win. Wouldn't it be
wise for not only Eric Adams, but Curtis Lee would
a drop out?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
And like you say, he's a friend of mine too,
and a really good friend of mine. You know what, Larry,
I won't speak to that because in my opinion, he's
a legitimate and I think in everybody's opinion he is
a legitimate Republican candidate. I know what everybody's saying about Cuomo.
(14:39):
I'm gonna still take that weight and see attitude because
zoean it's an oxymoron that he's the legitimate Democrat candidate,
because he's not. He's a Democrat socialist. However, let's see
how Cuomo does. Cuomo is still I feel, I don't
care what the pole say. He's lacking the vest and
(15:04):
he's lacking uh that that that push that he really
needs to do, uh to show up against this young person.
I think Curtis brings such a history with him and
such a good history with him that, uh, it's just
the fabric of Curtis Leewa. So I would say, let's
(15:24):
wait this out. Let's see what's going to happen? Happy
September everybody?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, how long are you willing to wait? Before years?
You say, you.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Know, I'm gonna I'm going to go a couple of
weeks in, Larry, I'm going to go into We're only
on the third of September. I'm going to go into
like next week when we speak, and definitely the week
after that. I think we're going to have to have
some very serious conversations. But with that to the side,
you know, you said you know Curtis and you say
(15:55):
you're a friend and you know him, so I know
him too. U do you honestly in your gut that
this guy is gonna pull out no matter what the
poland nuverse days?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No, I don't. I don't, absolutely don't. And by the way,
if it's saving the city from a socialist, if it is,
and I'm not saying we're at that point right now,
if it is, I hope he does the right thing.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yes, you know, I think everybody's hoping for that. And
like I said, there's a lot of conversation going on,
but not about dropping out. There's a lot of conversation
going on in the campaign that you know, you could
do this. You could do this, but it comes a
time Larry where numbers don't lie, and uh, you know,
(16:39):
we will have to decide from that point going forward.
I spoke yesterday. Oh by the way, if I could
push this out, Hey, everybody, Vicky Palladino's running for office.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Vicky, I didn't forget that.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't forget that. We got carried away with this conversation.
Let me do that. You'll be back next week. That's
all we'll talk about, is your campaign. Okay, let's do
it now.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
No, no, no, no, I don't want to talk about it.
My grand opening is this Saturday at the Bay Terror
Shopping Center from one to four, my campaign headquarters. If
anybody wants to come, Oh joy us. It's the Bay
TERRORCE Shopping Center in Baseiquin.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Where we got that in great Thank you very much. Counsel.
Counsel Woman Vicki Palladino is with us every Wednesday at
eight o five. Welcome back. So do you have a
hard time talking about money with your boss, talking about
your salary with your boss? I know, I do. I
know a lot of people really have a problem with this.
Getting up the courage to go in and talk about
(17:40):
their salary. Greg gan Grande is the person to go
to for this career advice expert with us every Wednesday
at this time. You can check them out at go
to Greg dot com. I love that you're talking about
this today, Greg, because who knows and how do you
know when it's the right time to go in and
ask for a raise?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Well, great, great topic and questions, and I can tell
you that generally what's going on in the labor market
right now, the conditions aren't great for asking for a
raise because so many companies are looking at how they
can implement AI to slow down hiring, to even do
(18:27):
some layoffs. So you have to be really careful with
the approach and the timing. A couple of things that's
really important for everyone to understand. Most companies have a
compensation structure for every role, and each role has a
salary range that's benchmarked against the market. And where you're
(18:49):
paid and how much the company is willing to pay
is based on really two things. Your performance and your
overall value to the company and things you need more
money for your personal finances or cost of living. Are
never good reasons for asking for a race.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, It's interesting what you said because of the current conditions.
It sounds like you are saying read the room like
read the economy right now, because there's a good time
to go in and ask, and there's a bad time
to go in and ask. And it may not just
be in your workplace, but across the country. You have
to you have to figure out what the good time
(19:30):
is to go in and now may not be the
best time.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Right so correct a good time is if you've taken
on more responsibility. So it could even be that your
company is conducting some layoffs and the people who remain
are given bigger jobs and more responsibility. I wouldn't say
immediately after that, but after a period of time, at
(19:56):
least six months to a year. If you've been given
responsibility as a result of even a negative time at
the company where they've been contracting, it could be appropriate
then to ask for a raise. If you've reached a
major milestone, you delivered on a key initiative, a key
project that was really important to the company, that could
(20:18):
be a good time. And certainly if the company has
a structured performance review process where you're supposed to be
talking about your career learning development, growth and compensation. That
would be a good time to have these discussions, but
it should be part of a normal flow of how
(20:41):
you are performing and you demonstrating your value and your impact,
and not because you want more money or you need
more money, and never as a threat that some competitor
or somebody else is offering you more.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Greg you're great at reading both sides of the room
and the both the employers and the employees are employees,
can you just wait for them? Are they pretty good
at knowing when they should give you a raise?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Are employers good at knowing lawyers?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah. I would say that it is a fair
assessment that most companies try to pay as much as
they have to to keep their talent, but not a
penny more so, there are very few companies saying I
think you're doing a great job and you're not complaining
(21:35):
about how much you're getting paid, but I want to
give you more anyway. Typically that would happen if a
company is promoting you and you're really top talent and
there's someone they're afraid of losing. I think those people
who fall into that category, companies are pretty good at
making sure that they're keeping them at the high end
(21:55):
of the range. Everyone else, there's the normal review process.
Companies have an annual merit review process, or if you're
part of a union, that's already built into your tracks.
I wouldn't say for the majority of employees, this is
top of mind for management to think about how to
give more employees more money.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So you go in, you ask for a raise and
you're told no, What do you do.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Next, Well, you need to understand why no and what
does no mean? No because you're not performing well. No
because the budget is closed and not until the next
budget cycle. You have to understand what that means and why,
because in that dictate whether or not you should start
(22:44):
looking for another job. It could be no, you're not
really performing well and so you're lucky you have a job,
let alone asking for a raise. It could be a response.
Do you think that you have to understand what the
no means and why and if there's an opportunity for
it to be reconsidered in the future, and what those
(23:04):
conditions would be. What do you have to do, how
do you take on more, what do you need to
see in your performance, et cetera in order for that
no to turn into a yes.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
For most people, Man, it's such a stressful thing to
do to get up the courage to figure out what
you're going to say. What are the what are the
real preparations you should take before you enter the boss's office.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The facts of what you do, what you've delivered, how
you've demonstrated value to the company, and where your compensation
is relative to the market. So that's easy to find
now with so much publicly available information and compensation. If
you are someone who is valued by the company, and
(23:52):
you can demonstrate that value by the accomplishments you've had,
and you can demonstrate that relative to the market, you're
not at the top end. Those are the kind of
research and preparation you can do to walk into a
conversation like this and have the best chance for a
better outcome.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, Greg, you're an HR.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You've been in the room when the person came and
they did a subtle I don't want to say threat,
but you how many times does that work out for
that person? Like, oh, there's so many other opportunities I
really want to stay here, but but but like zero.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So depending on the person, you can probably get away
with that once. For most people, it's okay, Well, if
you feel you can find a better opportunity paying more
elsewhere than good luck to you, so you run the
risk of getting that response, which is why you never
want to make a threat. If you are interested in
(24:55):
testing your market value, go out and get a job offer,
and then you are certainly welcome to let your employer
know that you have a job offer. You better be
prepared to take it because they may just say, well,
we're sorry to lose you good luck. But if you're
doing it just as leverage to try to get more money,
(25:16):
and then your boss says that and you don't really
want that job, you're going to look awfully foolish by saying,
all right, well never mind, I'll stay Wait a second.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Isn't it a good idea to already have the job
offer when you go in, Like exactly, yeah, you go
in and gay o, that's what I thought you were saying.
So yeah, no, it'd be wonderful to walk in, and
then you have to decide between the two jobs.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's real leverage because you are willing to actually walk away.
There are some people who go out and get job
offers because they think that'll prompt their employer to give
them more money and they have no intention of taking
that job offer. And I know a lot of people
It's happened in my career where people have come to
me and I've said, well, I'm sorry, we would love
(25:58):
to keep you, but there's not anything more that we
can do, and then the person kind of with the
tail between the legs says, well, you know what, I
really really thought about it, and I'm happier here and
I'm just going to stay here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Oh no, you have to be prepared to leave. And
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Everybody does, and I've seen people from BAC saying, Okay,
you know, I really love it here, and the extra
money I can earn elsewhere, while important to me, that's
not more important than might.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Happen the company knows.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
They really are not happy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You're dead man walking at that point. You're dead, that's it,
that's it. You might as well leave at that point,
no exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Which is why I said, if you're going to go out
and get a job offer, and you're going to use
this leverage, you better be prepared to take that offer.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Thanks so much, Greg, g and Grande. I don't think
I'm ever going to ask for a raise. Ever after
hearing this from you, that was the whole point. He's
an HR guy. He wanted to scare us all away
from every asking for a raise. That's what that was
all about. Greg gian Grande career advice expert with us
every Wednesday at this time. You can check them out
(27:08):
at godogreg dot com. Thanks a lot, Greg, always a
pleasure when we come back. My final thoughts, a recap
of today's show and the talk back of the morning
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