Viral Tweet Shows Brilliant Employee Response to Management's Attempt to Ban Pay Discussion

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Apr 14, 2022 4:00 PM EDT

A savage letter was posted in a gym in Kentucky by the management team and has gone viral on multiple sources. There have been viral posts on Reddit and Imgur and a Twitter tweet has earned over 145k likes.

The note was posted to the break room at the gym after the management team grew frustrated about rumors of employees discussing their wages. They then posted this letter that reads as follows.

"Attention all subordinates," starts the letter.

"Effective immediately, conversing about wages (both on duty and off duty) is strictly forbidden.
This is considered proprietary information and as such, it is protected legally. If you are overhead speaking (OR LISTENING TO!!) a conversation in which wages are discussed, you will receive disciplinary action up to and including termination.
As a reminder, Kentucky is an at-will state, meaning your employment can be terminated for any reason without legal percussion (sic). Or NO REASON."

Where do you even start with this? The first thing that stands out is the fact that the author claims to have the legal "protection" to make this claim, when forbidding the discussion of employee's wages is, itself, illegal in the United States. And I'm not certain what "legal percussion" is but the legal repercussions of firing an employee for discussing wages are very much a thing.

The employees responded in the best way possible… By posting a signed response in the break room that included their names accompanied by their current pay.

The internet has been loving this brilliant story of worker's revenge.