My favorite was when I was changing positions right around review time. I jokingly told my manager that she should give me the biggest raise possible since it wouldn't come out of her budget anyway. She pulled that off and since my last annual raise was skipped due to a recent out of cycle raise it got prorated up. Then all my new boss had to do was ask permission to pay me the same amount I would have been making if I had stayed in my old position which he got.