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[quote=Anonymous]I work for a non profit. I was hired this year. I recently learned that some program managers and especially those who were with the non profit for years, make less than the new hires they manage. My boss is only making $400 more than she was before she became a supervisor. She created the position for herself.

I have more education and more work experience in my field than my direct supervisor (my boss), and I had to submit my 1099 forms from when I worked as an independent contractor. My boss is aware that I have marketable skills where I could make significantly more in private industry. There are also much younger and less educated and less experienced program managers who are above my boss, and I don't know or care how much they make.

However, my boss is constantly making snide comments to me about money. We all telework from home offices.

We recently attended a conference together. I took one carry-on bag and one navy suit, one other skirt, and a navy dress. I wore the "uniform."  I thought the conference was business casual. Most of the attendees were wearing just casual clothes, not business casual. My boss was not pleased when she saw my clothes, and made comments to me, about how she was just like me the first year she attended the conference and how competitive I am. ??? She also brought her husband and daughter who will be a freshman in college. They used the conference as a family vacation. She was nowhere to be seen unless she had to be at meetings. She missed out on a gift card raffle prize because she chose not to be there at the social in the evening.

I am also a single woman in my early 40s never married, no kids. I live a nice comfortable lifestyle but not extravagant.

I can see now how much she hates me. If she thinks I don't have enough work to do, she will offload her menial tasks on to me. Instead of publishing articles or giving presentations for professional development, which I have done in the past, she has me read one article a year and write a summary.

I only have to interact with her online over the phone for about an hour every two weeks.

I have to be as nice to her as possible. Everything about me seems to annoy and irritate her. When we are face to face, she rolls her eyes if I attempt to speak. She is nice on the surface and brutal beneath. She makes comments about how she didn't achieve her dreams for her life, or how she used to be a rebellious teenager, but now she knows how to act. etc. etc. etc.

Maybe this was more of a vent. I really like this job. I like the employer. I am satisfied with my pay. I know I can always make a few extra dollars a year by taking independent contract work.

How can I stop her negativity and stop even having these thoughts? I have found that the more I think about some thing and focus on it, the worse it gets. I can have one 30 minute phone conversation with her, and it takes me a day or two to decompress. [/quote]

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