Posted on 04/12/2024 3:33:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIP
The situation unfolded when Christina sent her boss a text message after finding out she was the “lowest paid in the whole team” despite having worked at the company the longest and being in one of the most senior roles.
The staff member said it didn’t matter who told her and asked if it was true.
“It absolutely does matter. This is not an appropriate topic of discussion for the workplace,” Elliot responded.
Askins slammed this response, telling his followers that it is completely legal to discuss pay with your colleagues and to “never let a company tell you otherwise.” “If a company’s trying to hide it, or be dodgy in any way, it’s almost certainly because they are clipping pay,” he said.
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One way to find how much you are valued is to look for work elsewhere.
Fire her immediately. Example making can save a lot of headaches. She went public with private information.
Quite a few people may find out they are actually overpaid. I know a few that found out that way.
oh, where to start…
The employee gets points for documenting this via text.
“Elliot” should have:
0. Squared up/topped up the legacy employee if she was solid, during the great resignation…self-fund the raise.
1. Called HR to advised them of the situation.
2. Refrained from having this exchanged documented, via text. I won’t detail the umpteen screw-ups Elliot made in the texts, ie “you won’t leave over this will ya?”
3. Schedule a call with the employee.
4. Been fired after this all went public.
Then here comes a lawsuit.
At least you will know.
Some employee will have a "parking lot" conversation with another employee and find out that he or she is getting paid less or perhaps got less of a pay raise than the other employee.
They then confront me and want to know why.
I doubt very much that employees are sharing pay stubs in the parking lot, so to speak. Most employees will exaggerate what they make to other employees in order to establish themselves in the pecking order.
Fake people, fake texts.
How is sending an email to her boss making it public?
That’s illegal in my state. Companies can’t mandate salary privacy.
Only correct for the boss now: “We wish you the best of luck in your new position. Please pick up your personal belongings and your final check at the security office tomorrow morning.”
Why is that correct?
I would never want to work for a company whose stock would rise if they fired people. Such a company is ripe for hostile takeover and dramatic reorganization. A quality employee could get caught up in the meat grinder when the company is taken over.
Minimum wage laws should be re-named as "minimum productivity laws". If an employee doesn't contribute enough to the company to justify his pay, he needs to go. Profit-making companies are not charities.
Like me. I make too much damned money - pisses me off.
/sarc
Should companies pay more to more productive workers?
I always figured other people’s salaries were none of my business.
1. Women
2. Emotionally stunted men
These are the only employees I’ve ever dealt with who were so docile and compliant that they only cared about how much they were paid after finding out how much their co-workers were paid.
Most of the men who worked for me fit into two groups: (1) those who were smart enough to know what their work was worth, and (2) those who aggressively sought to be paid more regardless of how much they were really worth.
But would you be okay, if you were a high performer, and you were being paid less than a colleague barely scraping by.
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