Based on reports, a woman in New York recently tweeted about how she applied for a job listing for her current position after her company posted the same position but at a higher salary.
25yo UX writer, Kimberly Nguyen, shared that she stumbled upon the job posting on LinkedIn, which advertised a salary range that was $32k-$90k more than what she was currently paid.
She discovered this after a salary transparency law was recently enacted in New York, which required companies to include a pay range in their job postings.
The Vietnamese American poet and essayist who published her first poetry book in October 2022, tweeted that she responded to the posting by applying for her own job.
The company then held an emergency meeting where she was told that the job listing was meant to be an internal posting.
However, instead of employees getting a raise, discussions on potential layoffs came about, leading her to announce that she is now on the lookout for a new remote job.
Her initial tweet has since received over 12.4 million views and 221k likes, with many users empathizing as well as relating to her. Read full thread below.
My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what Im currently doing (so were hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied.
— Kimberly Nguyen (@knguyenpoetry) March 7, 2023
