Current Events > Are you aware of how much your coworkers make?

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do you ever ask them and do they tell you? Some people just want to know and others do not care that much though
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I always dodge the question because I know I make a little more. When they ask me how much I just say "not enough".
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I'm pretty sure that's something you're explicitly just not supposed to talk about. Do people actually bring this up lmao
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I make a lot more than all of them.
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catboy0_0 posted...

I'm pretty sure that's something you're explicitly just not supposed to talk about. Do people actually bring this up lmao

at my workplace usually people don't but it certainly isn't rare for it to come up or someone to ask
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I asked once and they said that I could get fired for doing it. So I don't. Seems pretty anti-labor tbh.
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Garioshi posted...

I asked once and they said that I could get fired for doing it. So I don't. Seems pretty anti-labor tbh.

is this like factory work? lemme guess
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Garioshi posted...

I asked once and they said that I could get fired for doing it. So I don't. Seems pretty anti-labor tbh.

it's just not a good thing for people to talk about. can create a lot of unnecessary tension
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sort of. coworkers aren't too worried about telling me, and i dont mind telling anyone. it's the leads/managers that don't tell, from what i've experienced.
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It comes up on occasion. I make more than all but 1 or 2 of them so I don't ask much.
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Generally yeah no one really speaks in exact amounts
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This company hired a bunch of me along with a ton of my graduating class so we all had the same salaries starting off. Evaluations and raises were distributed a couple months ago and some of us shared and some didnt.
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Yup. It's union so it's all in the agreement.
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I don't talk about wages with coworkers as a personal rule, but because we work with some government contractors they legally cant prevent us from discussing it nor can they require it.
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I don't have a clue
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Yep. We all know what one another makes. If you have any issue you're welcome to take it up with the owners.

I've never been given a bad reason for my wage, nor been held back when I made a good case for a raise.
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I think it should be talked about more. Let's you know what's happening around you
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I think I could fairly accurately guess who's making more or less than me if I wanted to, but no one really seems to care at my job.
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after getting my feet wet in project management i learned way too much information about salary at my workplace
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I know what everyone makes, because I do payroll at my job.
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bumpers
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catboy0_0 posted...

I'm pretty sure that's something you're explicitly just not supposed to talk about. Do people actually bring this up lmao

It's stupid not to bring it up because it lets Management treat workers unequally even if they're doing the exact same work. It's understandable if longer tenured workers have gotten quarterly raises and make more but if you're all programmers doing the exact same thing and someone's making $5 more than you are and hasn't been there much longer there's a prob
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I always just assume everyone at my level makes the same with some variation based on tenure. I'm not that concerned with it.
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