Found out my boss makes 10x what I do and almost choked on my coffee
I was digging through some old company files last Tuesday, just trying to find a shipping manifest from two years back for an audit. And I stumbled on a spreadsheet with salary data from 2021, totally by accident. My boss, who sits in an office 10 feet from my desk and asks me how to use Excel once a week, was pulling down $280,000 a year. I'm over here making $28 an hour hauling freight across the Midwest, and he's got a corner office and a company truck he never drives. It hit me that this is just how corporate structures work, but I still felt like an idiot for never asking for a raise. Has anyone else tripped over a salary list and had to sit there pretending you didn't see it?