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'At this point everyone started to laugh': Software engineer schools nepo-baby employee in front of 20+ coworkers after his salary was questioned

It's a touchy subject when it comes to salary transparency. Many employees tend to agree that sharing what you make amongst each other helps people get paid what they actual deserve and avoids people getting underpaid and overpaid. However, some say it creates a "target" on the head of people making more and creates team tensions. 

A Redditor recently sparked a discussion on the subject after he had to school a co-worker on his salary. The co-worker, who happened to be the nephew of a higher-up (aka a nepo-baby), found out that OP was making a lot more than everyone else on staff. OP was the software engineer, and in this small town, these were very hard to come by—the few that they had hired previously left pretty quickly to move to bigger cities. Though OP was technically getting paid low for software engineer industry standards, he was still getting paid a lot for this small company. 

So nepo-baby coworker comes in and asks him in front of 20+ employees why he was making X amount of money. And OP had the classiest response that had everyone laughing and nosey-nepo-baby coworker backtracking. See for yourself below! 

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Posted by Elna McHilderson
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