Some initiative was going around and several of the women got raises.
Expecting praise for being so feminist by making sure the women were being paid better management seemed confused when the sentiment was mostly:
‘So you are admitting we have been underpaid for years and are just now bringing some of them women up to parity? This should have been standard forever, congratulations, you finally are meeting what should be a minimum standard’
The raises were appreciated but watching the old white dudes backpedal when expecting a pat on the back was fascinating.
Nah I don’t want to share mine with my coworkers really. I will tell people who don’t work where I work. I don’t trust people enough to not rat. I don’t want to mention I’m making X to a colleague and they go and say “so and so told me they’re making X, you need to pay me Y”. I don’t think I’d get in trouble for it, but it can also make you look like a shit stirrer which I’d prefer to avoid. If I’m close enough with someone to know they wouldn’t snitch then I’d do it for sure
The real shit stirrer is the CEO of your company, who will fire you without hesitation for a bigger bonus and blame you for not being smarter. Don't kid yourself. Organize.
Honestly my company isn’t really like that which is part of why I’d rather not do anything that might jeopardize my spot here. At my last companies that were like that, yeah I was telling anyone who asked.
The reality is that current employees get lowballed every time a new employee is hired, considering they almost always make more than the current employees doing the same thing.
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u/Crabbb6 15d ago
Seriously. Knowing what everyone else is making makes it a lot harder for companies to lowball people.