Boss asks employees to take $5,000 out of each paycheck to be team players: 'My management actually has the nerve to ask me to be paid less'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 3, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Imagine gathering for a company meeting and hearing about all the great work everyone's doing, only to be asked to take massive pay cuts. 

This was not exactly the greatest display of a healthy company culture. Essentially, this executive at the company, who rarely shows her face and has next to no relationship with the Redditor and the other coworkers on their team, decided that the best way for the company to remain healthy was for everyone to elect a certain amount of money to be deducted from their paychecks. She even had the nerve to say good team players could choose to take up to $5,000 out of their checks. How about $0, ma'am?

Some folks in the comments section were intelligent enough to demand that the Redditor ask how much money executives at the top will be taking out of their paychecks. After all, shouldn't they be team players too? Keep scrolling below for the full saga. When you're done, take a look at this post about a boss who called out their employee's lack of professionalism.

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    "My company started a meeting today by asking us to consider voluntarily deducting money from our payroll"
    via Pawel Chu
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    My company started a meeting today by asking us to consider voluntarily deducting money from our payroll, to help the company.
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    Title says is all. My blood is boiling as I write this. I work as an event planner for a non-profit association in Washington DC. Our company does a lot of lobbying on Capitol Hill, sends letters to Congress to help get certain legislation passed, etc. Our member companies are some of
    via [deleted]
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    the wealthiest to ever exist. I'm talking about a roughly $400 billion dollar market cap, just to name one.
    via [deleted]
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    My department does an all-hands meeting every Wednesday, and today it began with one of the C- Suite directors coming in to speak to us. I've never even met this lady.
    via [deleted]
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    She starts by gushing about how important the work we do is, how we're helping to change the world, how tough she knows it is to complete (she has no earthly clue)
    via [deleted]
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    how proud of us she is, and then....asked us to consider deducting money from our paychecks, to contribute to the company's PAC. I couldn't believe my ears. She literally said "you could deduct anywhere from 10 to 5000 dollars a paycheck if you want to really be a team player!"
    via [deleted]
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    A team player. She actually said that. I make 55K a year before taxes, living in one of the priciest cities in the country, and my management actually has the nerve to ask me to be paid less, so that we can bring
    via [deleted]
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    more results to our member companies. Our member companies that make billions and billions of dollars every day. The companies that are bleeding the world dry of its resources, safety, freedom, and soul.
    via [deleted]
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    Companies that are actively being sued every single day for lying about test results, selling products that have made thousands of people sick, injured, or worse. Companies that are bragging about replacing their workers with AI. Companies that fire and sue their whistleblowers and will gladly cut lawsuit settlement checks for millions, sometimes billions of dollars, without batting an eye.
    via [deleted]
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    I about walked out the door right then and there. The audacity of some face executive asking me to help the rich get richer on MY dime. Corporate America is so detached from reality it makes me sick to my stomach.
    via [deleted]
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    Iwouldpick Jeanluc 2 hr. ago Next time(you know it will happen again) I hope someone asks her how much She is giving,
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    and for a list of how much executive's are giving. Or "I don't make 5k a paycheck. Are you suggesting that I give my entire paycheck? If I were to give my paycheck, how do you recommend I live since I don't have a trust fund?"
    via [deleted]
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    Nonprofits are often the worst. Your job Sl and good luck with your job search. Every time you think you don't have energy to look for a new job, think about this meeting.
    via [deleted]
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    melikefood123 - 2 hr. ago Ask them to post the salaries and amounts being given by the execs.
    via [deleted]
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    Pawing_sloth - 2 hr. ago Can anyone explain to me how a lobbying firm that represents large corporations is non- profit? This is a real question that I legitimately want to know the answer to.
    via [deleted]
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    Lord_92 2 hr. ago Non-profit isn't charity, just that all revenue has directed back into the organization. This can be done by just giving raises to the directors but they're functionally just legally non-profit motivated organizations.
    via [deleted]
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    In the USA publicly traded companies have a legal obligation to direct profits to investors and non-profits have to feed it back in but be transparent about where that goes. That's it.
    via [deleted]
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    You can have a non- profit org that's a national fast food chain or retail or a paper mill.
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    DubiousAndDoubtful 2 hr. ago "Before we go any further, can you please show us your payslip from the last pay period, showing us how much of a team player you are, and just for comparison, how much are you on vs. the staff you're trying to undercut their own wages?"
    via [deleted]
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    No-Pomegranate-5737. 2 hr. ago You work for a lobbying company and are surprised that they do scummy ?
    via [deleted]

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