I was promoted, but told I will be paid 17% less than the average for my new position. Instead they gave me a bunch of stock options, which I don’t care about. They said this was because of the current economic market and didn’t have the budget for it.
I am pissed. I am supposed to sit in meetings and lead projects with all these other dudes (I am a woman) and be paid less for it. On top of that my company is rubbing salt in the wound by making us all sigh a diversity and inclusion pledge. I am all for diversity and inclusion, but maybe … ACTUALLY DO IT instead of just pledging it.
I immediately sent out my resume and applied to several jobs because fuck this. But the more I think about it the more I think about how cushy this job is and how chill my manager and team is. I get unlimited PTO that is actually unlimited, we almost never get called when on call, I get to work on whatever I want and work whatever hours I feel like, plus it’s fully remote. My team has good rapport and I like working with them.
So here’s what I’m thinking, if I work for 83% of the pay I work 83% of the hours. So I am thinking of bringing this up with my manager and requesting that I am given 1 day off a week since that would be 80% of my current schedule. I value time off and getting to work on what I want over money, even if they are being sexist trash. I will accept their sexism at the rate of 3 day weekends every week lmao. I don’t want to fuck up things before I find another position though, so I’m not sure when to bring this up or if it’s even worth trying.
A negative I see from this approach is the males hearing about your 4 day work week and complaining of sexism because they have to work more. This can cause everyone, including HR, to focus that as an issue instead of pay inequity.
My suggestion would be to just give 83% effort at work.
Are you remote?
Source: female in tech
I already give minimal effort at work unfortunately, because I got screwed on my last raise too. But everyone doesn’t care anymore because this raise cycle was a joke. They’ll still be doing a similar amount of work for more pay. I wouldn’t consider leaving early worth staying, the benefit of an extra day is that I get to plan stuff on that day.
Yes I’m remote. I’ve already reported sexism to HR in other cases and they haven’t done anything about it. My company was rated “one of the best places to work for women” btw, those awards are a joke.
Not really sure of how I can justify staying then, but likely it will be the same shit or worse somewhere else even if I get more money from the get go. This isn’t my first rodeo.
The way I see it if people complain that’s my managers problem to figure out, not mine. Should have just paid me equally if they care about equality so much.