5.
“I was training a woman who had just been hired in the same position as me. I made an offhand joke to her (outside of work) about how the guy who had just been fired for sexual harassment made $2 more than us. The trainee said, ‘Wow, I can’t believe he’s making $18 an hour.’ I was making $15 an hour at the time, which meant that this girl was hired at a full dollar more than me. I didn’t say anything but she saw the look on my face and figured it out.”
“She approached me the next day and told me how much she was making and told me I needed to negotiate for a raise. I went to my boss and told her I needed to be raised to the same pay or higher as the trainee. My boss tried to tell me it was ‘grounds for being fired’ if I discussed my pay with other employees. So I whipped out print outs of the New York State and federal pay secrecy laws and told her she could get in legal trouble for saying that to me, and that I was recording the conversation just in case she said something like that. I got that raise.”
—emersinning
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabianabuontempo/money-negotiating-tips
