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Hypothetical: if you could increase your salary from what it is, but your coworker who makes less would also get that new higher salary, would you go for it? Ev
by mLuby 9y ago
Hypothetical: if you could increase your salary from what it is, but your coworker who makes less would also get that new higher salary, would you go for it? Even if you think you're better than they are?
To put some numbers on it: you're at $100k and Alice is at $90k (because she's a woman?). After unionizing, you'd get $110 and Alice would get $110.
Would you do it?
- microcolonel 9y ago> Alice is at $90k (because she's a woman?) Any evidence of this in practice? > After unionizing, you'd get $110 and Alice would get $110. Or maybe you'd both get $100, or maybe one of you would never be hired. You've got your hypotheticals, I've got mine.
- mLuby 9y ago1. Evidence of women being underpaid (in tech)? Definitely got evidence, both anecdotal and US-wide. 2. You didn't answer my hypothetical, but I'll answer yours: If my salary doesn't change but Alice gets a raise, good for her, doesn't bother me. If I never got hired I don't care about Alice's salary, likewise if she never got hired. Anyway, the parent comment complained "why would I want my salary to be the same as everyone else?" so that's what my hypothetical gets at.
- xstartup 9y agoA department gets X budget, low-value employees making more money = high-value employee making less. 2. I am bothered if co-workers make more than me even when I am more important for the project and do more.
- JetSpiegel 9y ago> A department gets X budget, low-value employees making more money = high-value employee making less Just like when I win in the stock market, that money comes from Warren Buffet's earnings.