{"id":22121,"date":"2025-12-04T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:28:29","slug":"i-asked-why-my-coworker-makes-more-hr-panicked-and-the-truth-is-what-i-didnt-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22121","title":{"rendered":"I Asked Why My Coworker Makes More\u2014HR Panicked and the Truth Is What I Didn\u2019t Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found out entirely by accident. Matt and I were chatting after a rough client call, and he joked that \u201cfor what they pay me, they can dump anything on my plate.\u201dI asked what \u201canything\u201d was worth, and he answered without thinking. The number hit me like a punch. When I told him mine, he went silent, blinking like he\u2019d misheard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were hired the same week, same title, same projects\u2014half the time we literally split tasks down the middle. He looked genuinely rattled.And that\u2019s when he said the part that changed everything, \u201cDuring hiring, I told them I wasn\u2019t willing to work for less. That was it. No special qualifications. No bonus duties. I just said the number.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out entirely by accident. Matt and I were chatting after a rough client call, and he joked that \u201cfor what they pay me, they can&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":121,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22123,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions\/22123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}