Today, I found out that, although I have the same job title and complete the same work as my male colleagues, I get paid 15% less, purely because I'm a girl. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out I make less money than the temps at my job by over 2 dollars an hour. I've been working there the longest and do 75% of the job myself. I was told, "We'll think about it" when talking to upper management about getting equal pay or close to. FML
Today, after 3 years at my job I received a 14% raise. I was informed I will be transitioned from hourly to salary. I will now be making $1500 LESS than I made last year. FML
Today, I was forced into accepting a "promotion" for a position that pays less than what I get right now. FML
Today, I got a new title at work. My boss hyped it up and made it sound amazing, so I accepted. Come to find out it pays 20k less a year and is twice as much work. FML
Today, I found out that the engineers I work with believe that a woman with an engineering degree working in an engineering company is apparently equivalent to a "secretary for engineers." I am that woman. FML
Today, I found out that, because I'm a student, the employees I train make more than me. FML
Today, after working at the same place for 3 years, I found out that they are not only cutting my hours but now I have to take orders from some girl I trained because she was promoted over me. FML
Today, I found out my daughter has a higher paid job in the same company I work in. I also found out she is dating my boss. FML
Today, despite having made it clear that I'm neither interested, nor I am able to take over the jobs of the 3 members of staff who have recently left, my boss made a "Progress Plan" for me and will check on it weekly. I'm getting paid 1.5 times less than average in my role and he's not giving me a raise because the company is stingy. FML
Today, the person recently hired to work in my spot during my days off started at a higher hourly rate than me, after I have been here for nearly three years. I asked for a raise and got a dollar more; meanwhile, my regional counterparts make 4 dollars more per hour. FML
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itskaybytheway 10
I think you should do 15 percent less work from now on
NeatNit 33
And you've talked to your boss about this?
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Comments (259)
opeyemij 5
You should be filing a lawsuit as you were writing this.
thrlyrist 6
I did a paper a few years back on gender gap on it fields. Sexism of course may play a role in the pay gap. But once one eliminates variance such as hours, experience, job nature and education the gap is much smaller than the feminists want you to believe (I.e., < 10%). Many successful females interviewed in journals attribute the difference in aggressiveness in negotiations. Many males are more confident and will ask for a higher salary and get it. These females recommends the females to do the homework to make sure they know how much they should be worth and be firm and confidence during salary negotiation.
JokersHQ 21
I'm sure you could bring that up somewhere to get your pay raised to their level. Fight for it Hun. It doesn't matter what gender, race, or color shirt you are wearing,if you earn it you deserve it.
jodyl1 5
Sexism? I wonder. She makes no comment about who she works for or how their pay is structured. The company I work for pays based on experience and tenure. If she is new, but the others have been there a while, so what? When the others started out, they started out making the same. That's here though. Plus all the other benefits the employer pays for such as health screenings and mammograms for women, extra PTO for when they need to care for children. Sure, she may not use it, but it's there *if* she does.
SecsNoises 6
OP is from the UK - we have the NHS, so employers pay absolutely nothing towards healthcare.
bloodtalonx 5
Actually, you're probably getting paid 15% less because your salary was negotiated at a lower rate. Where I work, my friend and I make $10k/yr different in salary for the same job - and we're both men. It may depend on qualifications, or the financial situation of the company when you were hired. Don't assume it's because you're a girl unless you have hard evidence
gracehi 33
EXACTLY! Ugh. I can't stand how people immediately want to burn OP's employer at the stake just because she CLAIMS she's getting paid less because she's female, when that is literally all they know about the situation. Maybe she knows for a fact it's only because she's a woman, or maybe she's just jumping to that conclusion like so many others here. And this is why the feminist movement isn't taken seriously anymore. When people throw around accusations of sexism arbitrarily like this, it trivializes the issue.
honeymoonroyale 20
That's the world for ya...
randoming 1
If you accepted the position for 15% less than the "males" it is only your fault. It's not unfair, inequality, or anything else. You foolishly accepted the position for less money. I expect you won't make that mistake again. Before you go full fem-nazi did you bother researching how many days off a year you take compared to the rest of people with your job title. What about the amount you cost in insurance compared to everyone else. Unfortunately From a employers point of view a women on avg takes more time off and is higher on insurance coverage. That statistic is without factoring in maturity leave which is a huge cost to an employer. But by all means get a lawyer. Verify that the way you obtained the salaries of all the "male" workers was legal. Pay for a lawyer on word of mouth of the male workers as well
worldclassrager 41
That's bias...it shouldn't matter who you are you should get the equal pay...now that you know maybe you can get more equal pay...
lsu49 2
Quit bitching
Egorf 8
Maybe you are just a 15% worse of a worker