Basically, I work a minimum wage job and have been for a few years. Just part-time, not full-time or anything like that. So a couple days ago I was working on a jean project in the stockroom (clothing store work) and one manager who recently got back from vacation didn’t know what was going on and the other manager told me to manage the two newcomers and direct them for this jean project. The store manager was off that day.
Anyways, we’re working and I’m guiding and then they start asking me how long I’ve worked here and were utterly shocked to find out that I was making the same as them. They told me they would have quit by now if they were in my position because “they obviously need you”, they assumed I was one of the managers, and that I should negotiate a higher pay. Truth be told, with my current position there isn’t exactly a pipeline to move up, which why I’ve never been given anything more, such as raises. But, it did finally make me evaluate my own worth for this job.