Upset

There is this person (a young guy to be precise) in my department who is leaving soon. Let me call this person J.

It is J's job that I am taking over and along with the tasks that he used to do, I have been asked to do quite a few more. When my boss added these new responsibilities I had no idea why she wanted extra work out of me.

Now I like J a lot - he is the only unbiased person in the department and I always go to him with my sob stories and moans. He is the only one I could truly talk to knowing fully well that he would keep our conversations confidential and not back bite.

Today on the way to Kettring (for work) we had a frank chat about why he was leaving and for once I was listening to his moans. Some where along the chat we started talking about salaries and we both realised that I was earning way above him. In my last position I know that I had lesser work than him and yet my salary was higher.

Now I am no saint and don't go fighting for causes unless I know that I can benefit from it. So when I realised that J was earning lesser than me, I just felt so sad. If I was earning lesser than J, I would have taken up the issue with the Big Boss and now that J has already given his resignation letter, he does not want to talk anything about his less pay to Big Boss. Ofcourse now I know why Big B wants to add some extra responsibilities on me....but more than that I am irritated with myself that I let J know that I was earning more than him.

What upsets me is that why a billion dollar multi-national company cannot remunerate people according to the amount and quality of work that they do? Life is so unfair...