Once I learn this and Allison’s recommendation I ponder whether what occurred to me was a gender discrimination or not:
I used to be employed 3 years later than my coworker Fergus.
Our firm’s total coverage was to provide every worker a pay elevate yearly that was primarily based on a share of that worker’s wage.
The primary three years the corporate was doing properly and this pay bump was 10 per cent for everybody, together with Fergus.
Then I used to be employed as a recent graduate, and the corporate began to do much less properly, and that pay bump decreased to five per cent. This was legitimate for everybody, i.e. each for me and for Fergus.
After a number of years within the firm, I used to be doing each llama grooming and llama meals cooking. Fergus was doing simply the llama meals cooking as a result of he was too afraid of llamas to do the grooming. Our instant supervisor, Wakeen, was encouraging this and by no means forcing Fergus to do llama grooming (he and Fergus have been type of associates), so if it got here to llama grooming, Wakeen and myself have been alternating to do that.
Then I by accident noticed Fergus’s pay slip and came upon he makes about one third greater than I do. It grated me the fallacious means as a result of I knew I used to be prepared to do each the grooming and the cooking whereas Fergus was not, however due to the corporate’s coverage (giving all staff the identical share of pay elevate and Fergus being there extra years) it was not clear whether or not this was discrimination or not.
Was it, and what do you assume I ought to have performed? (I truly did nothing, partly out of worry of damaging Fergus, partly out of worry of stirring the pot and being presumably retaliated in opposition to, and I have no idea whether or not I had a leg to face on. Fergus is male, I’m feminine, however given the corporate coverage it’s doubtless that if it was the opposite means spherical it might have been presumably the identical?)