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Your comment strikes me as a bit odd ... Are you suggesting that one should be wary about making too much money and if you find yourself at a company for awhile

• infogulch 13y ago
  What? There's no reason for the employee to correct it. Via a quirk in the system an employee ends up making more money than they're worth. Manager notices it too late and decides to correct the problem by firing them, aka "conversation about a future elsewhere". The word picture that ChuckMcM painted wasn't that difficult to grasp.
• jowiar 13y ago
  At some point, after a series of raises for doing excellent work, your employer may reevaluate the situation and come to the conclusion that, while you're excellent, you might not be worth what you're getting paid. (This can get particularly fun when there's a high-performing employee who isn't very high up the totem pole, making more money than people with fancy titles). You aren't often the one who's going to initiate the next conversation.
• asveikau 13y ago
  I am pretty sure this line: > Correcting that usually involves a conversation about your future elsewhere. ... is a euphemism for getting fired. I read it as: you get very senior, you get lots of raises, you get the axe, you get replaced with someone cheaper. Personally I have also heard about the opposite happening: during these boom times the new grads might get "market rate" salaries that end up higher than someone who has been in the industry for a while and hasn't caught up through raises.