Head of Title Inflation I don't care what my title is, just compensate my fair market worth. Granting a title increase is just another cheap and easy way to ke

Head of Title Inflation I don't care what my title is, just compensate my fair market worth. Granting a title increase is just another cheap and easy way to keep wages down. "But, you just got promoted, we can't jump your pay much further or you'd be paid more than your title." Have heard this excuse more than once. Since when does title confer ability? If my goal is to save/make the company money and I'm accomplishing those goals, why not just pay me what I'm worth and at the end of each pay period we call it even? Titles are a lot like uniforms. To cite Richard Feynman: "One of the things that my father taught me besides physics - whether it's correct or not - was a disrespect for respectable... for certain kinds of things. For example, when I was a little boy, and a rotogravure - that's printed pictures in newspapers - first came out in the New York Times, he used to sit me again on his knee and he'd open a picture, and there was a picture of the Pope and everybody bowing in front of him. And he'd say, "Now look at these humans. Here is one human standing here, and all these others are bowing. Now what is the difference? This one is the Pope" - he hated teh Pope anyway - and he'd say, "the difference is epaulettes" - of course not in the case of the Pope, but if he was a general - it was always the uniform, the position, "but this man has the same human problems, he eats dinner like anybody else, he goes to the bathroom, he has the same kind of problems as everybody, he's a human being. Why are they all bowing to him? Only because of his name and his position, because of his uniform, not because of something special he did, or his honour, or something like that." He, by the way, was in the uniform business, so he knew what the difference was between the man with the uniform off and the uniform on: it's the same man for him."