On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 12:26 PM, joanna bujes wrote:
> At 09:28 AM 06/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> but friends who are freelancers/contractors often WILL talk about rates
>> for particular kinds of work and with particular employers, for
>> comparative purposes. it's one of the ways you know when you're doing
>> really well or getting screwed, whether to push hard in rate
>> negotiations or to ease up. within corporations, however, i agree
>> completely that it's considered very bad form to ask someone's salary
>> or
>> to parade your own around (or to bitch about it, for that matter),
>> except perhaps among close friends. even then, it's tricky. is there
>> not
>> something phallic about salaries? where's zizek when we need
>> him . . . ;-)
>> - --------------
>
> Actually, I didn't write that. I just observed generally, that in the
> US salaries are a forbidden subject. This works to the disadvantage of
> workers who, while doing the same kind of work, are subject too wildly
> different payscales. For example, two technical writers doing the same
> kind and amount of work might make anywhere from 65,000 to 100,000
> working in the same dept and for the same company in my neck of the
> woods.
>
yeah, that was me. and i don't disagree at all wrt employees of the same company.
jeff