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    Do you compare your salary with others?

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    • K Offline
      KSP
      last edited by

      buds:
      KSP:

      [quote=\"tree nymph\"]i think it will take me about two decades ALTOGETHER just to earn a million dollars - Singapore dollars, not US dollars!


      Oh, that work out to be 50k yearly. U just revealed it!!! :spank: It should be P&C.

      :rotflmao:

      KSP is fast![/quote]luckily i'm not your boss..... u are spared.... hehehe

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      • K Offline
        KSP
        last edited by

        buds:
        Eagle-Ladybird:

        aiya, get yourself into a scandal . . . . then write a book on it, exposing all the juicy details . . . and your millions will flow in


        You start first. If you rake millions then i'd dare go next. :scared:

        Err.. is your friend Tiger Woods? 🦆

        Tiger Woods not in the few millions category. He is in the 100mil league.

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          buds
          last edited by

          Eagle-Ladybird:
          buds:


          Err.. is your friend Tiger Woods? 🦆

          No . . . I'm a friend of his wife :scared:

          😐

          Friend? :evil:

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            foreverj
            last edited by

            When I was working fulltime, its definitely no, no to compare salary with others, esp colleagues. if u hear people earning more than u, u wil definitely feel discouraged. if u earn more than other people, u wil discourage people.


            also bearing in mind each of us have an idea of the input/ability/OT hours clocked in of each staff. even by just comparing how fast promotion came for certain people, we already feel mgt is not fair to reward some who didnt seem to have put in their fair share of work. let alone comparing salary.

            now that i m earning peanuts wkg part-time, i have no qualms letting people (my colleagues included) know i dun even qualify to pay tax every year 😛

            having said that, with our well-to-do frens, we roughly know hw well each r doing by the occasional small talk on topics like hw much tax some need to set aside every year. n from hw fast some r able to upgrade their cars, houses, u get the picture. just feel happy for them that they r getting rewarded for their abilities and effort. i dun compare cos there's nothing to compare now that i m \"out of the job mkt\"...

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              Eagle-Ladybird
              last edited by

              buds:

              Friend? :evil:
              Yes, our ever favourite buds, how are you ?

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              • H Offline
                hapydino
                last edited by

                my uncle used to say…


                SGD1mio ah… if we work, 赚得到 (eventually depending on pay + working life) BUT 省不到 this amount in our bank account as liquid cash / savings…

                i agree leh… for my league

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                  hapydino
                  last edited by

                  tempted to know others’ salary i admit…


                  but oso becuz of sharing my pay, i lost 1 good friend who doesn’t feel happy for me, instead jealousy kicks in and she started her nonsense towards me…

                  guess some friends 可以共患难 but cannot 共富贵??

                  after this incident, i zip…

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                    HyperKiasu
                    last edited by

                    in all my prviouse jobs, we didn't compare salaries. i only encoutered one woman who asked me how much i earned.


                    but for bonus, we did discuss openly. how many months bonus? and also how much % of annual increment (with less interest though)

                    😄

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                    • R Offline
                      RRMummy
                      last edited by

                      HyperKiasu:
                      but for bonus, we did discuss openly. how many months bonus? and also how much % of annual increment (with less interest though)


                      😄
                      Unless, it is across the board, this one super sensitive leh... 😉

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                        duriz
                        last edited by

                        IMHO, it's a BIG no-no.

                        I have witnessed people who shared info about pay & bonuses. Then that next day, bo friend liao :roll:

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