Different types of bargaining offers in the real corporate world ...(From my previous employer)
1.) An associate gets a bad rating and when he goes to the manager to discuss about the same... he's assured that he would be sent to onsite within a month's time. Satisfied, the employee leaves.
2.) Another associate in the same team with the same problem meets the manager and he is told that he would be made the team lead very soon so a designation hike and thus an increase in salary. Employee is happy again!!!
3.) Another associate (with the same problem) is told that because one other person 'xyz' had a very bad rating in the previous appraisal cycle and if he(xyz) was given bad rating this time also, he would be thrown out of the company.. so, we forcefully had to give you a bad rating(to help the other person). Employee has no say..
4.) A lady associate worked till Jan of the year and went in for maternity leave just before the rating time, so was given a bad rating for she will surely not come back to fight for it.
5.) An employee gets onsite for otherwise he'd leave the company and there's no one to take care of the work done by him.. Employer's pain...
This is exactly what happens in the corporate world.. Either one is convinced or one is forced for both the parties have to come in to consensus .. may it be a pleasant one of a forced one!!!