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Subject:RE: Pay Gap Between Manager and Subordinates From:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, "laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com" <laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 May 2012 15:21:01 +0000
I agree and would add that, as an employee, pay gaps are generally none of my business. What is my business is that I ensure that I am being paid what my work is worth in the market I am in.
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Subject: Re: Pay Gap Between Manager and Subordinates
I would think that pay gaps and relative numbers of years of experience are probably not the biggest morale issues in a group with a mediocre manager.
Gene Kim-Eng
On 5/4/2012 10:49 AM, laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com wrote:
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> Bad for morale? ...Hm. How about the morale of an undeniably excellent senior writer with thirty years' experience who's paid less than a shiny new mediocre manager?
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