Incompetent boss accidentally reveals massive pay gap while trying to relate with employee about wanting more money: ‘I'm just dumbfounded and honestly thinking about looking for a new job’

It's a special kind of tone-deaf performance when supervisors attempt to connect with their underpaid workers. It's like watching a millionaire complain about yacht maintenance to someone living paycheck to paycheck—technically they're both talking about expenses, but something's getting lost in translation when one profits at the expense of the other.

Welcome to Corporate Reality 101, where one bright-eyed employee just discovered the shocking truth that compensation often increases in inverse proportion to actual work done. Gather 'round, children, for the tale of an innocent soul who actually believed merit determined salary! During what should have been a celebration of their stellar performance review, their supervisor, who acquired his position through that age-old qualification of "knowing people," casually mentioned making triple their salary. 

The less you sweat, the less you debt, and no pain - more gain or however these sayings go; just basic corporate semantics.

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