The advice about removing bad people from your life is really good. I did this a few years ago and my overall life satisfaction improved a lot.
Introverts, Emotional Processing, Self-Esteem and Salary Negotiations
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Re: Introverts, Emotional Processing, Self-Esteem and Salary Negotiations
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Well, I down-voted it because it's vague, in-actionable, and conspiratorial.
Are you arguing that the purpose of secret salaries isn't to keep employees from a better understanding of how much the company would be willing to pay them? We can have that discussion, but it would help if you made a coherent counterproposal. If you claim that open salaries cause significant friction between employees, for example, please cite comparisons to the countries and business where open salaries are common…
I've made no argument at all. If you'd seriously like me to make one, I'm going to require funding.
Re: Introverts, Emotional Processing, Self-Esteem and Salary Negotiations
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Many people feel open salaries and professional organizations inadequately handle specializations. In University sectors there have been effects like: CS lecturers not allowed to be paid more because positions are harder to fill vs say Fine Art History lecturers. I'm not saying that's bad overall, but I can certainly see why CS lecturers might not like it. I think it's fairly easy for these models to fail at bringing…
"CS lecturers not allowed to be paid more because positions are harder to fill vs say Fine Art History lecturers" Why does this sound backwards to me? If a position is hard to fill, wouldn't you want to pay the person more so that they don't leave? Conversely, if a position is easy to fill, wouldn't the university pay less, since if the person leaves they'll be easy to replace? How does paying someone less because th…
I think what you're missing here as that unions often limit the ability to respond to market conditions in much the same way government does. Responding to specific minutiae is not terribly hard if they personally harm you. Accounting for them in an impersonal regulatory framework being made at arms-length is a much harder problem even if that framework solves other problems.