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Why is asking about salary a big no-no, but negotiating boni and stock options is perfectly valid for executive positions?
Why do employees have to sign contracts in which they agree not to disclose their salary to anyone, but their employer discloses all their employees' salaries to specialized service providers in exchange for those of their competition?
It's illegal for them to restrict you from talking about salary. In the US at least. Pretty sure that's at the federal level too.
People talking about their salaries is oftentimes seen as goush. Because only bad poor people are concerned with how much money they're being paid and you're not a bad poor person right? A good person will accept whatever their employer considers fair compensation for their work, doesn't complain and doesn't talk about it. You wouldn't want to be a bad person would you?
Gauche. It's one of those words that spell check forgets about.