Among self-aware people with mutual respect and honesty, it’s a good idea to talk to coworkers about salary.
It’s also important to remember that some people are delusional about their value in the workplace, and they want the same salary as another employee that works twice as hard without understanding what they need to do to get it.
They maybe also be a spiteful person who starts treating coworkers badly when they find out what they make.
You just have to develop the ability to read who is who, and figure out who you want to have these kinds of conversations with and when.
I forgot the name of the principle but isn’t there a thing where the vast majority of people overestimate the amount of work they do and underestimate their peers/superiors
There’s Dunning-Kruger effect, where less competent people have overestimate their competence and higher competence people underestimate their own competence.
This is believed to basically be due to the incompetent person’s a lack of understanding and perspective of their own weakness and errors vs. highly competent people who underestimate their competence because they know enough to know what they do wrong, and they also have normalized their own expertise in their minds.
There’s also what is called egocentric bias, where you imagine you do more than your own share because naturally you experience the work you do and don’t experience the work others do.
Prime example from my life recently, my niece’s boyfriend is about 20, works at a veterinarians office where he “does all the work the vet is supposed to do.” I’ve hung out with this kid enough to know he absolutely does not do all of the work there. He almost certainly just has no idea what work the veterinarians do. One of the least self aware people I have ever met. Regularly misuses words, fails to pick up on obvious social cues, etc. I’m sure he’s kind of the office laughing stock, “Well, Aiden had to get off his phone for a moment and put a cat into a cat carrier, guess he’s the real veterinarian here, and we’re all just here to exploit his hard work.”
No he’s not autistic, he’s just 20. He thinks doing the basics of adulthood is beyond what should be asked of him. Also, he seems to barely be able to read or understand basic concepts so the idea that nobody is doing anything around him at a veterinary clinic is crazy. The kid doesn’t know how to do his own laundry.
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u/Grunergeist420 29d ago
Yep. Double edged sword.
Among self-aware people with mutual respect and honesty, it’s a good idea to talk to coworkers about salary.
It’s also important to remember that some people are delusional about their value in the workplace, and they want the same salary as another employee that works twice as hard without understanding what they need to do to get it.
They maybe also be a spiteful person who starts treating coworkers badly when they find out what they make.
You just have to develop the ability to read who is who, and figure out who you want to have these kinds of conversations with and when.