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First thing a union does when they enter a workplace is talk about what everyone is paid. My last job had very strict rules against sharing how much you got pa
by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
First thing a union does when they enter a workplace is talk about what everyone is paid.
My last job had very strict rules against sharing how much you got paid. There's only 1 reason, they are underpaying someone. They propose that it's to my benefit because they can then pay me more.
Then a coworker got a better job and told everyone how much he was being paid. This angered lots of people because they were being paid much less and did much more.
What blows my mind. Minimum wage is $15/hr and they were getting $24/hr as senior sysadmins with tons of experience. Soon as they decided to get a new job, they got a nice raise near instantly and they were gone. Yet their time was billed out above $100/hr. It was literally the greed of our employer who kept their wages low begging for someone to offer more money and steal them. Such a high risk for minimal benefit in greed.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> My last job had very strict rules against sharing how much you got paid. If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure that's illegal?
- sleepysysadmin 5y ago>If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure that's illegal? Not in the US, but you know whats funny. The timeline of this job was outgoing government who passed the law making it illegal. Then a very short period of time, the incoming government deleted all the previous government's labour laws. So in fact during that time, it was in fact illegal. Though in context, nobody was punished. We were 2 senior staff down already. They had no opportunity to punish anyone. It's back to legal today. Your employer can have such a rule.