Over the weekend, I’ve been celebrating a recent job promotion with a friend. It’s always so cool when someone gets an internal promotion. Someone who’s hardworking and has been through all the peaks and valleys who finally gets rewarded with their next dream job.

This is an internal promotion, so it’s a process that’s been going on for some time. My friend has interviewed with various parties around the world. There was someone in the job. The job had to be posted internally. That sort of thing. You get it. She finally got the call last Monday and her boss, who happens to be a woman – and my friend is also a woman – says to her ‘we’d like to announce this Wednesday and congratulations’. And my friend said, ‘well, what about the salary?’ And her boss got kind of flustered and actually blurted out, ‘well, I didn’t get a salary increase when I took this job.’ My friend said her heart dropped and she kind of like was a little bit flustered. And then she said, ‘this is a conversation I’ve had with multiple people during the course of this process, and her boss says, are you saying you don’t want us to announce it? And my friend swallowed hard and said, ‘yes’.

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