This CEO gave his lowest-paid employees huge raises and it made some people angry

[X_Digger]

89. I'm just wondering how you can ignore the blather around you, if, as you say, you've worked bullpens

It takes no effort to have some schmuck rattle off his cholesterol numbers in the next cube while you're trying to concentrate. Really, it doesn't.

If I have worked harder than you, shouldn't I get more than you? If you've sold X widgets, and I've sold 2X widgets, are you saying we should make the same? If I have ten accounts that I'm managing and you three, we should be paid the same?

If so, that's bullshit. If I bust my ass and perform better, I expect to be paid better. If I've worked there longer, have a better education, and/or a proven track record, I damned well better be paid commensurate to those facts.

I have no problem with someone doing the same level of work I am being paid the same. But some fuckwit who can't be bothered to come in on time, spends 1/3 of every hour either smoking, talking around the water cooler, hitting on the receptionist, or in the bathroom? Yeah, no.