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The HR world is buzzing about this post. All I have to say is I wouldn't want to be Mercedes Johnson today. This is exactly why pay inequality happens amongst women and people of color. Make a positive difference in someone's life by lifting them up and being honest about the pay range. Do not underpay because you think you are doing the company a favor because when that person finds out, they will leave. Post the salary range for the position and stop this mess! This is the very reason why there are pay transparency laws. #closethewagegap
I hate employers that do this. Whether Mercedes has the bandwidth to give lessons on salary negotiations or not, they still know what value filling the role has to them and their organization, and they know how much money they can afford to spend filling it.?What exactly does Mercedes even get for cheating the woman out of $45,000? Do they get to keep the $45k? Or does the money go back to the employer and the only thing Mercedes got out of cheating the woman is the taste of boot on their tongue??
when you are the first to name the price, you run the risk of negotiating against yourself.
I think Mercedes meant well she put the facts out there but people can intertuped this statement positive and/or negative. It is how you read the memo and what was her intentions for putting the facts out there. Awareness or bonus on her part for saving company monies.
That is a huge difference and a sad example.
What a shame
Dehumanizing
Mercedes shouldn't be in that position
Great job on the clickbait post about race .
I bet this candidate would work harder and be more loyal if she was offered more than she believed she could get. To assume people “know their worth” through a salary or number is ignorant. We’re all trying to figure out where we can contribute the most powerfully and belong. It’s a recruiters job to recruit and secure top talent. This is humiliating to the candidate and I hope that when the company sees this they make it right for that person.
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2 年I'm reading this post as "pay women and people of color more". You are paid what you negotiate your pay rate to be. It is in the interest of ALL professionals to ensure they are not scabbing and taking lower wages than are reasonable for their industry. I am a white male, and at one time I made so little that I discovered that I could get a $20,000 raise by informing my management of federal labor laws. There is a difference between injustice, honest naivety, and rational ignorance. This post is rational ignorance of the responsibility of an employee, and employees AS A GROUP. It denies less experienced people the experience to learn to negotiate FOR THEMSELVES. And frankly the concept of paying people more based on skin color or sex in itself is racist/sexist, defined as: "a belief that?race?is a fundamental?determinant?of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race(sub gender)". I don't believe people of color are better any more than I believe women are worse, and therefore that method of increasing wages is incorrect. Stop drawing the line there because it's easy to identify with. EMPLOYEES WHO MAKE LESS THAN 300k PER YEAR are the group to fight for.