Refusing to discuss your salary helps companies underpay everyone
This hill is unclaimed. Nobody is willing to die on it. Yet. First blood pending.
- Pay, and you hold it.
- Anyone can dethrone you for more.
- Every claim stays on the record.
No claims on the record.
The other side
Pay gets set by budget bands and what a manager believes a replacement would cost. A colleague's number does not move that band. What it moves is the room. The person who negotiated well becomes a target, and the quiet one carries resentment into every meeting. Leverage comes from outside offers. Silence costs nothing there.
Tell me when this hill changes hands.
One email per change of hands. Unsubscribe link in every one.
Adjacent hills to die on
Unpaid internships are exploitation dressed as opportunity
Side hustles are just low wages disguised as ambition
Banning remote work is proof of bad management
Passion for the mission is just cover for exploitation
Startup equity is a lottery ticket masking poverty wages
Commute time should count as paid work hours
More work hills, all of them, or find one worth $1 of your convictions.