>Sounds like those people are in strong negotiation positions You'd be surprised, but that's not necessarily the case. One of my friends was such a person in

>Sounds like those people are in strong negotiation positions You'd be surprised, but that's not necessarily the case. One of my friends was such a person in a shoe making company as a designer. Instead of giving her a raise, they fired her. Cue them re-hiring her a month or two later after they found out the hard way that the less experience subordinate really couldn't handle the job of the two of them on their own.