He got TWO appointments, damn it all
May. 30th, 2007 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenSandra Day, I know you're old, but you couldn't have waited it out even a few more years? Sheesh.
Take a look at this ruling: Pay discrimination? You don't say. Hope you found out about it in time.
Look, if you're "corporations, yay!" in life, I get how this looks great to you. Otherwise, fuck you, too, Alito and Roberts (Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas: y'all should consider yourselves fucked already, many times).
Pay discrimination is an insidious evil in this world, but it's not one you can always immediately--as in the 180 days this fucking court majority thinks isn't anything like immediate--put proof to. Hell, in the case that was decided, the issue of pay discrimination arose over raises that were too low, not a salary that was. That kind of thing doesn't even kick in until you've been at a place for longer than half a year (or so has been my experience). Why the hell isn't every paycheck or raise that comes in below the norm for others considered discriminatory? If someone is consistently underpaying you, you might not notice for a looooong time because a regular low-balling can easily seem like what you should be earning. After all, you trust both your employer and their HR department to crunch the numbers correctly; if you can't, what the fuck are they there for? And, chances are good, that you're not going to go stalking from coworker to coworker on paycheck Fridays making sure that your take-home and rate of salary increase is within some statistically insignificant range until you get to a point where the difference, accrued over a long time would really slap you in the face.
I think it would be fabulous if employers were forced to, upfront, show salaries for each employee upon demand when a prospective employee was given a figure for his/her salary, but this isn't happening and it won't ever. Don't feed me any of this "learn to be a better negotiator" horseshit either. This ruling expects people either to be fucking rude upfront to employers and demand to know salaries across the board (hurting their chances for employment) or to do it later to their coworkers (which is terrific for the bosses as they don't have to be the ones bothered).
Fuck, man. I was all set to squall some about this thing that I read on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
newredshoes' journal, and I went to the NYT and now I'm even more pissed off. Too mad to write more about this because I won't be coherent. Just grrrrrrrr man.
Take a look at this ruling: Pay discrimination? You don't say. Hope you found out about it in time.
Look, if you're "corporations, yay!" in life, I get how this looks great to you. Otherwise, fuck you, too, Alito and Roberts (Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas: y'all should consider yourselves fucked already, many times).
Pay discrimination is an insidious evil in this world, but it's not one you can always immediately--as in the 180 days this fucking court majority thinks isn't anything like immediate--put proof to. Hell, in the case that was decided, the issue of pay discrimination arose over raises that were too low, not a salary that was. That kind of thing doesn't even kick in until you've been at a place for longer than half a year (or so has been my experience). Why the hell isn't every paycheck or raise that comes in below the norm for others considered discriminatory? If someone is consistently underpaying you, you might not notice for a looooong time because a regular low-balling can easily seem like what you should be earning. After all, you trust both your employer and their HR department to crunch the numbers correctly; if you can't, what the fuck are they there for? And, chances are good, that you're not going to go stalking from coworker to coworker on paycheck Fridays making sure that your take-home and rate of salary increase is within some statistically insignificant range until you get to a point where the difference, accrued over a long time would really slap you in the face.
I think it would be fabulous if employers were forced to, upfront, show salaries for each employee upon demand when a prospective employee was given a figure for his/her salary, but this isn't happening and it won't ever. Don't feed me any of this "learn to be a better negotiator" horseshit either. This ruling expects people either to be fucking rude upfront to employers and demand to know salaries across the board (hurting their chances for employment) or to do it later to their coworkers (which is terrific for the bosses as they don't have to be the ones bothered).
Fuck, man. I was all set to squall some about this thing that I read on
newredshoes' journal, and I went to the NYT and now I'm even more pissed off. Too mad to write more about this because I won't be coherent. Just grrrrrrrr man.
