Comments on: Money Talk http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/ A Road Without Obstacles Leads Nowhere. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Becky http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-358333 Becky Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:06:54 +0000 http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/#comment-358333 I never like to talk about salaries, even among friends that work in completely different industries. I guess, to me, there's somewhat of an industry standard in terms of how much people should be paid for their responsibilities, experience and performance -- and in most cases, the company itself is cheap so that should mean to get the Hell out as soon as possible or the employee lacks one of the above. I know that in my industry right now, programmers are a hot ticket and are making a lot more than other people in my agency. But, I don't begrudge that because it's a skill set that I don't have and is very unique/necessary. I never like to talk about salaries, even among friends that work in completely different industries. I guess, to me, there’s somewhat of an industry standard in terms of how much people should be paid for their responsibilities, experience and performance — and in most cases, the company itself is cheap so that should mean to get the Hell out as soon as possible or the employee lacks one of the above. I know that in my industry right now, programmers are a hot ticket and are making a lot more than other people in my agency. But, I don’t begrudge that because it’s a skill set that I don’t have and is very unique/necessary.

]]> By: Wookieluv http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-358247 Wookieluv Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:27:29 +0000 http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/#comment-358247 I knew everyones salary at my last employer because my cube was next to the payroll dept. I totally agree knowing your co-workers salary is a bad seed but only if they are in your department. lol The VP was making 125k a year..... The comment about mo money mo problems is a iffy deal. Its more of a state of mind...and it's relative. How's that for an ambiguous statement. I knew everyones salary at my last employer because my cube was next to the payroll dept. I totally agree knowing your co-workers salary is a bad seed but only if they are in your department. lol The VP was making 125k a year…..

The comment about mo money mo problems is a iffy deal. Its more of a state of mind…and it’s relative. How’s that for an ambiguous statement.

]]> By: Mark M http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-358244 Mark M Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:14:18 +0000 http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/#comment-358244 Don't forget the bagels and really crappy free coffee!! =) At the previous company I worked for, we as an IT department felt we were really underpaid. We were usually told that we fell into the median range for our job classification. So that just made us wonder what HR thought our job classification was and where they were getting their data from. Of course, they wouldn't tell us and that led to more suspicion and resentment. We did end up getting a "job readjustment" raise after we had complained for a long time, so I think everyone was happy in the long run. The one thing about being in the IT department there is that we had access to payroll and knew what everyone made. We were generally pleased to find out that we were all very close to the same salary, so it wasn't bad but if we had some large divergence or something, I'm sure it would have led to some hard feelings. We were pretty shocked to find out how much and how little some people in the company made and noticed that parity in department salaries was fairly limited to just the IT department! Don’t forget the bagels and really crappy free coffee!! =)

At the previous company I worked for, we as an IT department felt we were really underpaid. We were usually told that we fell into the median range for our job classification. So that just made us wonder what HR thought our job classification was and where they were getting their data from. Of course, they wouldn’t tell us and that led to more suspicion and resentment. We did end up getting a “job readjustment” raise after we had complained for a long time, so I think everyone was happy in the long run. The one thing about being in the IT department there is that we had access to payroll and knew what everyone made. We were generally pleased to find out that we were all very close to the same salary, so it wasn’t bad but if we had some large divergence or something, I’m sure it would have led to some hard feelings. We were pretty shocked to find out how much and how little some people in the company made and noticed that parity in department salaries was fairly limited to just the IT department!

]]> By: Markl http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-358241 Markl Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:24:15 +0000 http://blog.logtar.com/2008/04/16/money-talk/#comment-358241 You get paid. I do it for the free doughnuts :) You get paid. I do it for the free doughnuts :)

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