Entitled boss asks for underpaid employees to be "team players" and voluntarily take pay deductions for the company's benefit: 'You could deduct anywhere from to 10 to 5,000 a paycheck!'

The concept of being a team player at work has certainly changed a lot from what it should be. Sure, in theory, team players are folks who prioritize what is best for the team at large over their own needs. However, authority figures tend to twist this concept by making it seem like they have the best interests of the team at heart, whereas in reality, they are the ones who aren't thinking and acting like team players. If they were, far more employees on teams such as this one would be making fair salaries and enjoying decent benefits through their respective workplaces. 

Instead, upper management at companies such as this Washington-based organization decided that it was appropriate to request that their employees voluntarily agree to significant deductions from their paychecks. This, of course, was all phrased under the false image of what it means to be a team player. Keep scrolling below to see how this author responded to the bizarre request…

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  • Another shocking revelation from the author was the disclosure of their current salary. These employees were making $55,000 a year and were already opting for lower pay in order to do important work. Clearly, their allegiance to the company was being taken for granted, as upper management also tried to guilt this team into agreeing to the pay cuts, as if that was the only solution to keep the organization afloat.

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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."

    Title says is all. My blod 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
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    Capitol Hill, sends letters to Congress to help get certain legislation passed, etc. Our member companies are some of
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    the wealthiest to ever exist. I'm talking about a roughly $400 billion dollar market cap, just to name one.
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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.
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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)
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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!"
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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
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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 bl ding the world dry of its resources, safety, freedom, and soul.
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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 Companies that fire
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    and sue their whistleblowers and will gladly cut lawsuit settlement checks for millions, sometimes billions of dollars, without batting an eye.
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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.
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    IwouldpickJeanluc 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
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    were to give my paycheck, how do you recommend I live since I don't have a trust fund?"
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    Nonprofits are often the worst. Your job SI 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.
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    melikefood123 · 2 hr. ago Ask them to post the salaries and amounts being given by the execs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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    No-Pomegranate-5737 2 hr. ago You work for a lobbying company and are surprised that they do scummy ?
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