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Middle managers have very little power…they know or at least the good ones do.

If you’re in even a medium COL area, housing has sky rocketed. Even the old boomer middle managers worth their salt know this.

I quit a job in biotech earlier this year bc I would always be paid less for my skills and cannot afford it anymore. Great boss, great director, they know. They can’t just magically pay me more when tons of people (H1B’s included) will do my job for the same or cheaper…it would make them bad at their job.