The only thing keeping me in my current job right now is medical coverage. If I could get immediate medical with a temp agency, I am pretty sure I would leave for even a significant pay cut.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Feb 11, 2005 10:08:23 am PST #6328 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DavidS - Feb 11, 2005 10:08:25 am PST #6329 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm in HR - I know everybody's salary, including my bosses and co-workers. Because I'm in the attorney biz, I also have a pretty good idea of what bon bon is making. Though that's not hard to find either since you can go to places like Vault.com or the Greedy Attorney website and see them all comparing notes.
Sue - Feb 11, 2005 10:10:49 am PST #6330 of 10002
hip deep in pie
In NYC, too. "How much are you paying?" is one of the first things you ask when you walk into someone's apartment.
See, this is totally what I'm like, and I've found some people get weird.
Noumenon - Feb 11, 2005 10:11:16 am PST #6331 of 10002
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
The taboo about disclosing salaries has its weak points -- unequal information between labor and management, difficulty identifying better work opportunities. It's not pleasant or efficient to have a store where only the manager knows all the prices and can charge each person different without their knowing, so why should the labor market be different? I know, salary is status and revealing it causes a lot of envy, but it would cut down on the amount of wasteful purchasing people have to do to signal higher status or try to fake it.
It also might do something about discrimination. For example, you can see something's wrong just from the averages, where the median salary for a single male is $26,700 and for a single female is $18,160. If you could see that kind of discrepancy at an individual level with people in your workplace, it could never last.
Allyson - Feb 11, 2005 10:11:57 am PST #6332 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Salary: 41K
Rent: 800 per month
Debt: 21K
Not giving a rat's ass who knows?
Priceless.
I mean, I tell you people when I have earwax the size of a roach making me deaf. Why should I care about something as ridiculous as this? You know what I do for a living, some of you have seen the small box I live in and the car I drive, so, I mean, really?
Sue - Feb 11, 2005 10:17:13 am PST #6333 of 10002
hip deep in pie
That baby tossing story? False. The woman was trying to cover her own pregnancy: [link]
Allyson - Feb 11, 2005 10:20:07 am PST #6334 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
That baby tossing story? False. The woman was trying to cover her own pregnancy:
I thought this morning that it was bullshit, but then I saw an interview with a little boy who said he saw it all happen. Then I figured I was a jerk.
Dana - Feb 11, 2005 10:20:29 am PST #6335 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That baby tossing story? False. The woman was trying to cover her own pregnancy:
What?!? Christ on a stick.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 10:20:47 am PST #6336 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Actually, I'm profoundly relieved.
Anne W. - Feb 11, 2005 10:22:06 am PST #6337 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Then what about the woman who stepped forward to say that she was the mother?