<prompt> Human: A little background -- I have worked for a Fortune 500 company for the past 20 years. Its a great company with excellent benefits. Generally they have been very good with providing raises, bonuses, and stock options over my employment. The last few annual raises though were pretty weak, even though Im number one in my department and the company is doing very well.After another good quarter I went into my managers office and made my case for a raise. Because this is a big corporation, I was told its not a good time of year to discuss raises, they are doing smaller raises but make up for it with bonuses, blah blah blah. Bottom line was that he said he would see what he could do. Since then, I havent heard anything about it. Should I ask him whats up or just chill out and assume it was a no? Raises are scheduled annually in January. FWIW Ive probably only seen him twice since our discussion since he works in a different city and I am out of the office a lot for business. A raise is not going to make or break me one way or the other.Thoughts?  <response>: Go get an offer else where for more. 