lol ok chief
I fucking hate how companies don’t have to show you your salary/wage on job listings. I’ve seen bootlickers justify this by saying it ruins competition???? No you dumb piece of shit. It literally breeds competition. A few states made it required through law and the companies stopped listing jobs in the states lol
He might as well have just shouted "yeah it's more than some long time workers make and people will get pissed"
never been told to not do that before, never been told to not do that during a wage negotiation. Silly goober. It's not a magic spell. I can do it anyway.
Former boss overheard me discussing wages with a new coworker and she came over to be all "yeah you can't talk about stuff like that here" and I immediately told her "Yeah that's illegal for you to enforce, I know my rights, discussing wage and any other working condition is protected by the NLRB" wish I could have ended it with a "so fuck off"
"Is that an instruction or a request?"
Because one is illegal and the other is unenforceable lol
This wasn't selfless but the last time I got an offer, I used it to negotiate a massive raise then had them lop 20K off that and give it to my coworker instead. For context, I've been overemployed for years, even before the stay-at-home orders for COVID were issued in my area, which made this pragmatic for me but I'd thought about it for years... That ability to balance two+ separate jobs at once has always depended on retaining the actually good coworkers I have at the gig I'd keep if I had to choose.
I was told at my workplace that discussing about salary was "frowned upon"
Even saying that is against the law. The NLRB can't really punish the company much but, especially if you get proof of that in writing or in a recording, you can report it to the NLRB and at least scare them/humiliate the company by making them deal with an investigation. Potentially they could be forced to send emails/post notices/personally text employees telling them they have the right to discuss wages. If you talk about wages and they fire you for it and you have a paper trail of proof they'll end up having to give you backpay.
