Demystifying Salary Information

Arun Jacob points us to an article in the NYTimes about online tools that can help in salary negotiations. The article concentrates on two websites — Salary.com and Payscale.com — that use different approaches to provide information on standard compensation packages for particular positions and roles. The theory is that, armed with information that was once available only to corporate HR departments, you could have an easier time negotiating your pay using a fact-based rather than a feelings-based approach.

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Re:my two cents

[cayenne8]

"Why is joke still modded funny?"

Because.....it is funny!!

I posted it awhile back on a thread...got lots of comments (even people who'd apparently never heard it before), and lots of funny mods...and a few troll/flamebait mods, which I guess were from some militant chick types that can't laugh at themselves. I mean, good Lord, it is a JOKE. Everyone takes themselves too seriously today, and apparently with the stringent "Political Correctness" of today, you can't seem to poke fun at anyone anymore...in jest, except apparently for white male heterosexuals, preferrably protestant.

Not that that group isn't funny, but, c'mon fair for one should be fair for all, eh?

I saw one ad the other day that got to me. I think it is for Nutrasystem...one white guy on there says "Hey, my wife doesn't say I'm disgusting looking anymore..."

JFC, I mean, if they'd said something the other way around where a chick said her guy didn't think SHE looked disgusting anymore, heads would roll....self images would come rolling in, and there'd be a week long symposium on Oprah on why women of any stature are 'beautiful'.

But, apparently the dumb white guy is disgusting if HE is fat.

The commercial didn't offend me...just the thought at the uproar if it was the other way around.