Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less ( www.forbes.com )

UnderpantsWeevil , 24 days ago

Negotiating with your current boss is significantly more difficult than negotiating with a future prospective firm, because your future prospective firm doesn't have the power to fire you.

Asafum , 24 days ago

It's 10000x better in the blue collar world because right off the bat you're assumed to be as useless as a person can possibly be so you either do the futile argue for a raise (which never matches what you should get) or you take a huge pay cut when finding a new job...

I've been stuck in the same cycle for 15 years now... Get shitty raises for 5 years, get burned out and bail, take massive pay cut, prove my worth to get back to shitty wage I left for but am now burned out again, find a new job and take another massive pay cut etc etc... adjusted for inflation I make as much now as I did 10 years ago...

These articles are always about white collar work. :(

HessiaNerd , 24 days ago

Mind me asking what you do?

Asafum , 24 days ago

My job doesn't like to give titles so no one can determine their value, but I'm something like a supervisor/manager/QC in a factory that makes luxury products for the ultra wealthy and the military.

binomialchicken , 24 days ago

What kind of luxury products does the military buy?

Asafum , 24 days ago

It's a separate part of the company. The parts are similar but not made to be luxurious and some are just completely different things that aren't luxury at all. I wrote the initial comment without the military part added, but I edited it to add that so I guess it kinda reads a little odd now.

I don't think there are many companies at all that do what we do so I'm being kinda vague lol

binomialchicken , 23 days ago

Too late for you to back out now. You are now and forever known as that one guy that makes luxury military equipment.

bane_killgrind , 24 days ago

Probably custom metal fabrication or some nautical stuff