Do you guys ever feel that your friends always try to find out how much money you make and discuss how low your salary is compared with theirs?

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No. But I google everyone’s home, salary range on Glassdoor and other apps , if they owned companies, Homes or other investments how much they sold them for, I even try and figure out what type of honors they graduated with and if they have student loans. I am a petty striver like that .

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And do you draw conclusions on how good of a friend they can be from all that? Sounds strange

Thanks OP, I thought I was the weird Indian who didn’t enjoy that but I am in good company 😊

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Only my Indian friends ask or try to judge based on my lifestyle. I am Indian btw

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White guy here with more Indian friends than most white guys probably have, and this has never come up. Maybe it’s an intra-Indian thing?

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Only within the brown community

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Nope. That would be extremely rude and cause for me to wonder why we’re friends.

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Indian here and agree it’s a brown thing

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No. Go find some real friends.

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My mom's hairdresser asked my mom about my salary in order to compare it to her kids 😂😂

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Agree on the Indian part (I’m one of them, before you come with pitchforks at me)

But it’s really weird. I know a dude , who whines about mortgage , whines about his kids expenses , never travels for fun and is always on about how expensive things are ( . But he is super happy about how much more he makes 🙄

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I love fb when so many life puzzles get undone 🤣 One of my good friends cribs a lot about his expenses but I guess that’s his way of showing how much he makes!

I'm Indian, and its definitely an Indian thing but I find it tacky. Like do you not have anything else to offer besides the money you make?

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Who cares? If someone asks. I tell them.

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No.

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No

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Literally never

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Can’t they just find out on Glassdoor if they know your firm and level?

Glassdoor is drastically off in many cases

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Yeah the insecure ones

No. Never ever.

One of my friend does but he’s also a elementary teacher 😆

No but I do 😚

Yes been on both sides - got asked and they feel good about how much they make. Also when I changed jobs they started getting jealous of how much more I make vs them and everyone started asking me to buy them dinners

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