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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2090828" data-attributes="member: 813">Actually, I know you weren't questioning their motives. I was. I thought perhaps you might accept that someone would give you some advice that you should question their motives. If you don't want to do so, that is your choice. But I (and thus in my opinion) would not want to work for someone who plays (head) games with me regarding my salary instead of offering a proper pat-on-the-back for a job well-done.If you don't need your boss to respect you that's your business.  I find the idea of waiting to offer you proper compensation until you ask for it disrespectful and if I worked there, I'd be looking for a better job elsewhere.I didn't think it was passive-aggressive at all. I was just surprised by the kind of company she worked for and typed "Ick..." It was my honest reaction upon hearing of her employer. If we had been speaking face-to-face, I would have said what I said above (without the wikipedia link <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) upon hearing about DDC.And if I had wanted to talk about astroturfing, yes, I would have posted a new thread. Instead I wanted to talk about being respected by one's employers in the face of getting better pay in an underhanded manner.</blockquote>