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How much do you earn

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  • 12-02-2019 3:33pm
    #1
    magic_murph
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭


    Is it still wrong to ask somebody how much they earn?


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    #2
    victor8600
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭victor8600


    Yes. But you can make a poll?


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    #3
    Frankie5Angels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Frankie5Angels


    I earn nothing, but I'm paid lots.


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    #4
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,399 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    If in a conversation someone asked me I would tell them, but I would think its a bit rude of them to ask.


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    #5
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    More than you, you plebeian cur.


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    #6
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    magic_murph wrote: »
    Is it still wrong to ask somebody how much they earn?

    How much do you earn ?


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    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    If someone asked me I would tell them but no one ever does (apart from my partner & family members).

    My friend's partner refuses to tell her how much he makes which I find strange.


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    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    You'd never get an honest answer on here....most of after hours must be on about 100K + :)


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    #9
    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,925 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    My wife, my boss and HR know how much they pay me to come in. Certainly not putting it online.


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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Whatever the highest is in this thread plus 5k. Plebs.


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    #11
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    My friend's partner refuses to tell her how much he makes which I find strange.

    That is strange. Can't imagine a reason for keeping that info away from the OH.


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    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    That is strange. Can't imagine a reason for keeping that info away from the OH.

    She doesn't ask him for money, they split everything down the middle. Unless he wants her to think he earns more than he does?


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Aonghus Von Bismark !!! where are you ???

    We need an @ notification system on boards!!


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    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    If someone asked me I would tell them but no one ever does (apart from my partner & family members).

    My friend's partner refuses to tell her how much he makes which I find strange.

    That's weird - I don't actually know exactly how much I earn, but if I asked my wife how much I earn I bet she could tell me to the nearest cent!


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    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    $3.50


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    #16
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    She doesn't ask him for money, they split everything down the middle. Unless he wants her to think he earns more than he does?

    Could well be. The male ego can be a strange animal. Still so weird and not exactly something you would imagine people in relationships lie about.


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    Giveaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Giveaway


    About three fiddy


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    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,992 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    i have been asked how much i make, i always refuse to tell them. i find is really rude and bad manners to ask someone such a question.


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    #19
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    lbc2019 wrote: »
    $3.50
    Giveaway wrote: »
    About three fiddy

    I ain't giving you no treefiddy you goddam Loch Ness monster!


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    #20
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    I'm a civil servant, it's common knowlege we all earn €85K a year

    21/25



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    #21
    AudiAvant
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭AudiAvant


    I know when I was driving trucks I was getting between 100/120 a day before tax for between 10/15 hours
    So less than minimum wage
    Then been a called a so called professional
    Comical


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    #22
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    I've told very few people what I earn. My wife, my brother and a work colleague/friend who was trying to negotiate a counter-offer with our employer.

    Wouldn't even put it against my user name. I'd put it in an anonymous poll.
    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    If someone asked me I would tell them but no one ever does (apart from my partner & family members).

    My friend's partner refuses to tell her how much he makes which I find strange.

    Unless they're a brand new couple, that is weird. If he keeps his nose out of her business too, it's weird but fair. If not, it's weird and controlling.


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    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,387 ✭✭✭Cina


    I generally don't tell people beyond my closest family and friends (if they ask), but as a Software Developer it's very frustrating the amount of times people have asked what my job is, and I've told them, and then get some snotty response like "oooh look at you, you must be loaded!". It's none of your f*cking business if I'm loaded or not.

    Imagine they told me they were unemployed and I said "ooh, look at you, you must be living in a cardboard box"


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    #24
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Unless they're a brand new couple, that is weird. If he keeps his nose out of her business too, it's weird but fair. If not, it's weird and controlling.

    They're together years and he know how much she makes.

    Some men have a weird thing about earning less than their partners.


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    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    uch wrote: »
    I'm a civil servant, it's common knowlege we all earn €85K a year

    you get a pay cut? Im on €100k plus expenses


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    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    I ain't giving you no treefiddy you goddam Loch Ness monster!

    I had my picture taken with Nessy Saturday at Murrayfield- he asked me for £3.50- I gave him a Scottish £5,- he refused, I retorted "I think you'll find pay, thats legal tender!"


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    #27
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    They're together years and he know how much she makes.

    Some men have a weird thing about earning less than their partners.

    Wow. That's frankly pathetic, whether he earns more or less. It's a financial toupee or crotch stuffing.


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    #28
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    I work in recruitment and won’t deal with friends, I pass them on to colleagues, I don’t want to know their personal info nor do I want them to feel uncomfortable with me knowing the full terms of their employment.

    For me, the only person that ever knew what I earn was my partner, it’s nobody else’s business.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    I ain't giving you no treefiddy you goddam Loch Ness monster!
    We work for our money in this house.


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    #30
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭Feisar


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Wow. That's frankly pathetic, whether he earns more or less. It's a financial toupee or crotch stuffing.

    I wish the missus earned way more than me!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #31
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Feisar wrote: »
    I wish the missus earned way more than me!

    Some primal, deep-seated part of my inner psyche would have an issue with it, but **** that guy. As long as I was still earning good money, if my wife's getting more that would be phenomenal.

    I suspect part of the issue is that if we're not earning more, shouldn't we be doing more of the non-work work stuff? Inner Psyche Guy is worried this would mean getting guilted into doing his share of the ironing. Good enough for him.


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