HYPOTHETICAL: You borrow a laptop from IT. The one they give you has a spreadsheet of everyone’s salary on it. You see your two counterparts, with the same experience and agency tenure, CONT NEXT—->

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I probably wouldn’t post about it here with my name listed...

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Create burner email and send to entire agency. Watch 🌎 🔥.

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@SC1: I don’t feel anyone is unreplaceable. I learned that lesson a long time ago.

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Get better at negotiating.

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Why seethe for a week? Just go and ask for a pay rise. No idea why people make this stuff so complicated

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Is kelly butler a real person?

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My point is why seethe? So the others were better than you at negotiating their salary. What’s there to be mad about? If I was you, I’d be asking them what they said and saying the same thing. Can guarantee they haven’t spent one second being mad about someone else’s paycheck, and instead focused on getting their desired result. Probably why they are getting paid more.

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CD6: Sadly, we can’t all be winners like you. 😉

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Maybe CD6 has some helpful feedback for you about your site?

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@ACD3: I didn’t ask for feedback or even a opinion nor do I care. Plus, I’m sure @CD6 is too busy winning all the Lions and Gold Pencils and “Top 30 under 30” to bother anyway. 😉

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How come in these hypothetical and also real situations people always realize they make less money than their peers and not the other way around? 🤔

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Ha! @ACD2 My name would make for a boring agency name.

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SPM1.... well good thing I’m not you 😉

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My personal experience which is somewhat similar is posted in a story above but that has nothing to do with the post itself.

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I doubt any IT department is stupid enough to make this error 😬

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@Skip 🙌 💪 🏋🏻‍♀️

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Get out of there. They will never pay you what you’re worth.

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Kelly do you think you're very good? Unreplaceable? The best?

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@SSA1 I’m terrible about posting to Twitter but trying to get better

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@D1 I think taking a breather to collect your thoughts and make a case for a raise is way smarter than going all in half cocked and pissed off. I mean you are going to have an emotional reaction and in my experience it’s not good to go into anything at work when you’re emotional level is at a 10.

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Oh and you did catch me there. I spelled irreplaceable as unreplaceable which was silly. More silly was YOU using unreplaceable yourself in the next post BEFORE calling me out for using it.

You should ask for 30m more dollars!

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I think that website is the reason you make 30k less

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