Cheese With Your Whine?
10.20.2005
Aren't we past this yet?I was talking to the manager at work the other day. We were talking about money and I told him that I was just not really making it on what BigBossMan is paying me. This was the rest of our conversation:
M: You're not making it on $X? That's kind of hard to believe.
C: Well, I've got daycare, and I spend a fortune on gas driving back and forth.
M: Yeah, I know all that, but you should just be grateful. I don't know too many women who make that much money.
C: What does the fact that I'm a woman have to do with anything?
M: Nothing I guess. I'm just saying that for a woman you get paid well.
(This is where I had to exert much self-control to not rip his f-ing head off.)
C: I should be well compensated. I've got a degree and 8 years of experience, and I'm good at what I do. A man would be paid well to do this.
Maybe he's missed the last 50 years or so, but supposedly we've made some progress in the whole realm of equal pay for equal work.
Paid well for a woman, my ass.
