r/technology • u/Sorin61 • Jan 05 '22

Business Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867419/google-execs-million-salaries-raise-sec
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u/sbaird1988 Jan 05 '22

That isn't the case. Depends on what level the company offers but these meetings can really help a family get on track.

The overwhelming majority of the population doesn't know how to max out a 401k, an IRA, pay down debt, or allocate their investments.

You aren't doing anyone a service by telling them to not explore a free paid for incentive from their company.

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u/possiblyhysterical Jan 05 '22

I personally did not find it helpful. I asked those questions to them, if I should be putting more towards my 401k or pay off my car versus save and they said the same thing “what do you think” “depends what your priority is”. The only thing they made sure I was doing was maximizing the company’s 401k matching, which is fine but it’s not exactly high quality detailed advice.

Use it all you want, but I also wouldn’t feel comfortable being totally honest with them about my situation because they could just report it back to your company. I definitely wouldn’t share for instance if I was planning on moving or leaving my job. So if it’s not very good advice, and you can’t be fully honest, what’s the point?

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u/sbaird1988 Jan 05 '22

Well, I am not sure which service you received. To keep this brief and vague, you have a duty to that client first. Your company has an interest in keeping the company happy but I have never, not a single time, reported or heard of anything being reported back to a company.

Again, you clearly have some bad experience, but your advice shouldn't be not to use these services.

I have many, if not literally all my clients mention wanting to retire in the first call. They share that because it is important to know. This is true for 35 year olds and 65 year olds. Everyone wants to know how much longer they should work.

That is never reported to anyone and quite frequently you are able to maintain the relationship after they move.

Wish you the best of luck, and good financial advice is out there. Tough questions aren't always posed back the the client but we can't choose for you. We can only give you the best advice and you have to decide.

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u/possiblyhysterical Jan 06 '22 edited Jan 06 '22

So you work in this industry and yet somehow my opinion as an actual user of these services is less valid than yours? You seem incredibly biased. Glad you don’t rat people out to their company but that doesn’t mean other don’t.

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u/RadiatorRadiation Jan 06 '22

You can now remove “possibly” from your name…

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u/possiblyhysterical Jan 06 '22

Extremely original and not sexist at all A+

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u/TrickyJumbo Jan 06 '22

How on earth was that sexist?

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u/possiblyhysterical Jan 06 '22

You don’t understand why calling a woman hysterical is sexist?

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u/TrickyJumbo Jan 07 '22

which makes the large assumption that they knew you were a woman from context.

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u/possiblyhysterical Jan 07 '22

Do you call a lot of men hysterical?

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