r/personalfinance • u/ekampp • Jul 02 '19

I received an accidental mail with all salaries for everyone in the company Employment

Hey, first time posting here. Hope this post will be ok.

This is problematic in regards to personal information discretion, but my issue is:

I realized I'm being significantly underpaid in comparison to others who do the same work as me.

I feel frustrated and upset about that fact. Not sure how to approach from here.

How would you approach the situation?

EDIT 1: Thanks for all the answers. There are many good ones in-between!

There are also a few that clearly want to see the world burn 😅

I had never expected this many replies, so please don't hold it against me for not answering each one of you.

RESULT:

First off. Again, thank you to all of you, who pitched in with your personal experiences, hardships, concerns, and advice. I have read through most of all ~2000 of them 😅

I have chosen to simply delete and bury the faulty email, and I will add a bit about being careful to not forward email-chains in our security newsletter this month instead. This way it will benefit everyone in the company to be wary of forwarding email-chains. The WHOLE chain will be forwarded.

I had a sit-down with the boss-man, and he agreed to give me a raise, and a promotion.

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u/eggtart_prince ​ Jul 02 '19

One time, a colleague of mine did this and was let go a few weeks after the raise after he rejected the offer from the other company. Gossip around the office says that the manager intentionally did that to my colleague over.

Play your cards carefully.

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u/clhydro ​ Jul 02 '19

My bosses said they would like the opportunity to match any offer I receive. I mentioned it to my mom and she said she knew someone who went through a similar situation as your colleague.

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u/baoo ​ Jul 03 '19

And nobody who knows about that ever trusted that manager again. Seems like shooting yourself in the foot on a power trip.

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u/Kingpink2 ​ Jul 02 '19

Depending field of work and rarity of skill an employer can do that only so many times.