Employee tells coworkers how much his raise was, despite manager asking them to keep it private: ‘[Colleague] is making $14000 less than I am’

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• This next story features an employee who just received a pay raise. Their higher-up urged them to keep talks about compensation private, likely because this was a raise that creates a crazy discrepancy between them and other colleagues.

  Higher-ups try to protect themselves like this because they don't want to treat all their employees the same, even if that's what's fair. If there's one thing we've learned here on Fail Blog, it's that you cannot take your manager's advice as bible. For all you know, they might be advising you to keep quiet because your colleagues are severely underpaid as it is. In this story, that is the case. Scroll below to keep reading.

• "AITAH for telling my coworkers exactly how much my raise was after my manager told us all to ‘keep compensation private’ and accidentally exposing that three people doing the same job are being paid completely differently?"

  
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• The manager decides to unleash their own demons on the employee and falsely accuses them of creating a toxic workplace because they know they can't request employee confidentiality like this, at least without a written agreement. But, even then, the likelihood of any state or country backing up crooked practices like this is low.

  In this situation, what's the right way to proceed? The cat's out of the bag, the manager has it out for the employee, and the employee has a lot more money with a lot less peace. Is this the cost of being honest and true?

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