On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 07:58 AM, ChrisD(RJ) wrote:
> Joanna 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 . . . ;-)
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> Me:
>
> People in Russia certainly will not tell you how much they earn, because
> they'll afraid you'll rat them out to the tax police and maybe get them
> fired.
>
shoot, i think tax evasion is considered bragging material in this country . . .
jeff
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