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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Why were you even discussing it? How did this even come up?
Pay rates are all negotiated individually between the individual and the company and it varies for all sorts of reasons. There's a reason it's supposed to be confidential--people think it's "unfair" or something.
It's a mark of unprofessional workers, to have them discussing their salaries with each other. In my very first job, a few of my cow-orkers would compare paychecks, on payday. "How much did you get? Oh! I got this much. How much did YOU get?" I always refused to participate in that game, because I didn't want to know who was getting what.
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As a person I did the exact same thing. It's no one's business but my own.
As a manager of 15 people when they came to me crying that so and so made more and it pissed them off, I said,"If you don't think that I'm paying you fair wages for the experience and workload you deliver, the door is right there and I'm not standing in your way."
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