I work a part time job where I found out through one of my coworkers that a new hire was getting paid more than me. I did not bring up this topic, this coworker simply told me about the conversation they had with the new hire. I was honestly really pissed off and I’ve been having issues with this new coworker anyway. I asked my boss to match my pay to the new hire’s. My supervisor is not in charge of things like salary so he had to go up to upper management.
A couple days later I was informed that it was against company policy to discuss salary at work and that I could get written up for it (my boss is simply the messenger, he did not know about this policy). The craziest thing is that I am getting a raise, though not as much as the new coworker.
I’m confused, why would management threaten to write me up next time and still give me the raise?