While I think there's nuance to the gender wage gap thing, I would like to mention: my first job was in a management rotation program at a Fortune 500 company. Another (male) kid hired at the same time as me into the same program with the same education (and who was later fired for showing up to work drunk) was getting $15k more than I w…
While I think there's nuance to the gender wage gap thing, I would like to mention: my first job was in a management rotation program at a Fortune 500 company. Another (male) kid hired at the same time as me into the same program with the same education (and who was later fired for showing up to work drunk) was getting $15k more than I was.
How do I know this? Because they give you a piece of paper with your salary and raise. He went out with some mechanics from the plant to drink (to celebrate the bonus/raise) and left his paper in the back seat of the mechanic's truck. The mechanic later showed it to me while complaining that dumb kids with a college education get more than he does with 40 years of experience. He didn't get the reaction he expected, because I was also upset about how much dumb kids were getting.
While I think there's nuance to the gender wage gap thing, I would like to mention: my first job was in a management rotation program at a Fortune 500 company. Another (male) kid hired at the same time as me into the same program with the same education (and who was later fired for showing up to work drunk) was getting $15k more than I was.
How do I know this? Because they give you a piece of paper with your salary and raise. He went out with some mechanics from the plant to drink (to celebrate the bonus/raise) and left his paper in the back seat of the mechanic's truck. The mechanic later showed it to me while complaining that dumb kids with a college education get more than he does with 40 years of experience. He didn't get the reaction he expected, because I was also upset about how much dumb kids were getting.