This is a very important point. I had accepted a promotion a few years ago (handed to me simply to relieve some of the piled-on responsibilities affecting my boss at the time) and was so excited to have even been offered the opportunity to bother caring too much about the raise, which was barely a few thousand…

I too tell people how much I make if they ask or if I think it will help them. I have a few friends that I talk salary with in detail and we keep each other posted on anything and everything we find out about salary. For example, one of my friends sent me an email last week with starting salary ranges for three…

bingo. that’s why i’ll tell anyone and everyone in my industry how much i make and how much i’ve made in the past! be empowered and informed people, and i’m here to help!

Yeah, I’ve said elsewhere, but I’ve had personal experience with this. Some deeply unfair compensations were being made and talking about our salaries amongst ourselves was the only way it changed.

The way salaries are kept opaque makes it so difficult to be paid fairly. This is a gender problem, but it’s also a problem that affects all workers. Wages have stayed flat across the board for a reason.

You guys sure seem impressed with your size. Do you routinely start fights in dealerships? You’d be spending a lot of time in prison....

What difference does your size and weight make?

Make me sign an acknowledgement that we’re being videotaped and audio recorded.

I hear what you are saying, but if your goal was to buy X car for Y price and even if the place sucks, if they eventually agree to the price without you leaving, why spend more time and aggravation with this process if you don’t have to? I get the principle of the matter, but most people just want their car and to be…

Unicorns have price limits to. Being principled means leaving once principles are broken.

Our only new car buying experience was pretty solid on the front end: Emails with a single salesman and his manager. Reasonable back-and-forth about dealer-installed options, including a couple swap-outs (I didn’t want the sunroof deflector, but I wanted rubber mats; etc). I even made 2 special in-person trips to a…

“toilette”

Always be ready to lose the deal.

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One wackadoo agent in a market != market value.

I want to see a venn diagram of overlapping hardsextube.com and nationalreview.com account holders.

“The Tesla just has to carry a professor and a few textbooks.” I’m sorry, but what sort of professor can afford a Tesla? If that’s what they’re making these days, I’m in the wrong profession. 

Yup, so instead I’ll just put all my trust in my employer, whose sole objective is to make more money by any means necessary. Solid plan.

I’ve heard from people in academia that grad students shouldn’t unionize because it would cause the faculty to see them as adversaries rather than colleagues. Which seems like utter nonsense considering how grad students are currently treated.

I’ll take this guy on anytime, anywhere for title of phoning it in the most.