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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]23:28, you would accept this crap from your employer?  You are as full of it as a Christmas goose.  [/quote]

Um, yes, and I have, because it isn't "crap."  It's a basic economic reality of the adult world.

Many corporate employers have a payroll analyst on staff who researches market compensation for each job and assigns a pay range to it.  The people who make hiring decisions have discretion to award salaries and give raises within that scale and within the relevant department's budget, but they can't exceed the top of the range, even if an employee has held the job for a long time.  The point is that time in a job generally enables an employee to handle a larger workload, which makes them more valuable, but the value added with each additional year of service diminishes over time.  At some point, the job is the job and the fact that the employer could find someone else to do it almost as well as the long-term employee for a lot less money begins to outweigh the significant value of continuity.

When I encountered such a situation in my twenties, I accepted that my financial ambitions were greater than my chosen career could accommodate, so I transitioned to a different field of work.  OP's nanny might be worth $21.50, but the market says that the job she has chosen to do isn't.[/quote]

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