Thomas

Two weeks later, she quit. She got a better offer somewhere else. On her last day, we went out for drinks to celebrate her. She got drunk and started giving me advice. She said, "Girl, you need to leave too. They're robbing you. I was making $28 an hour here." I laughed. I thought she was joking. She wasn't. Same job. Same shift. Same everything. She was hired a month AFTER me and was making $7 more an hour. When I asked her why she never told me, she said "I didn't want to make it weird. And I didn't want you to tell management." The raise wasn't out of his hands. He just didn't want to give it to ME. Some workplaces will make you feel like asking for a raise is asking for too much. Then you find out what someone else is earning for