#40

Same here… Except when that person is being paid the same as me for the same job but I know, because management told me, that I am far quicker and more accurate in my work than anyone else in the department. and therefore I believe I ought to receive a larger percentage pay rise in the next financial year. I shall certainly suggest it anyway.

#41

SHE MUST BE PAW THEN

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#42

Is that still legal?

#43

Dunno, I guess so? I’m in Germany

#44

I was happier earning 20 per cent less and working just four days a week, I have to admit. However, I need the extra money more nowadays.

#45

runs to thread, breathless

bent over panting, hands on knees, looks up grinning expectantly

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#46

where have you hidden the camera

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#47

You never put a post-it over your built in camera

#48

That’s when it becomes an issue and it’s a major part of what drove me from my previous work.

They shifted the goal posts in terms of grading structures and accelerated my development so they could get more work out of me for less. In 2 years I’d gone from entry level to having the same responsibility (and with higher expectations) as people who’d been there 10 years. But I was being paid about 75% of what they were.

They did try and offer me a bit more and promised this and that but their original offer was derisory.

It taught me to never, ever trust an employer when it comes to them making promises about pay/role development.

#49

Peanuts

#50

I know what they’re all fucking earning :wink:

#51

same as me. we’re doing the same job and started on the same day.

#52

I’m on a train with strangers, I’ll ask them.

#53

Ftfy

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#54

yep I manage the people around me in the office so know what they earn. Don’t really know the other teams but have a rough idea of bandings across the junior levels.

#55

To be fair, two of us started around the same time (18 months ago) and two others started later (eight months ago). Six others in this (growing) department were here before me.

So at least four of us are on the same salary as we started in the same role in the same financial year with (notionally) a similar level of experience.

At the beginning of this year I received a one off bonus in my monthly pay and was told it was because I was way above everyone in terms of productivity and accuracy (300% better than the worst person, who’s now gone to another department, but still way ahead of everyone else - even with DiS to distract me).

Therefore, I think I deserve a bigger percentage raise when the next financial year’s increases come into effect.

That’d be fair, right?

#56

Depends on whether your company works with performance pay or not. We don’t, and it’s always been a massive bone of contention to the higher performers that they arent paid according to their performance and that of their peers.

#57

Yeah I’d say that’s more than fair.

If you’re salaried and not paid a flat hourly rate for your role then it’s kind of what the salary system is there for.

#58

If you see me on DiS a lot more after the new financial year then you’ll know that I am adjusting my work level down to that of my colleagues. :rofl:

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#59

Yes I know what everyone earns. I HAVE THE POWER