It just all depends on the organization. A lot of the more smaller companies I work with really don't have much of a HR department. You obviously don't want to discuss salary with someone that is not the decision maker. A lot of interviews are done by peers and discussing salaries higher then what they may get paid could backfire on you. The situation varies - there is no hard and fast rule - like anything.
I interviewed one guy who was telling me about a conversation he had with his brother in which he got the advice to change jobs every year to build up his resume for a while. He was 3 years out of school and had worked two jobs.
+1. Do companies even have pension plans any more? No place I have ever worked has had one.That I haven't looked at, but given what I've seen from pension plans, the main thing I'm counting on is my personal investments. Everything else is gravy that lets me retire earlier and/or live better.
I wasn't talking about 401(k)s which I think are fairly common. I meant the old defined benefit pensions. I thought those were questionable anyway since it presupposed that the company would be around for a long time. Truthfully I never thought I would spend my life at one place, nor did I want to, and I was right.
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Guess we're a bit of a benefits dinosaur, we have both a 401k and a defined benefit pension plan. But then again, we are French owned, they do things differently!
You mean when you don't like your company's policies you set your house on fire and stand in front of the fuel trucks to make sure that nobody else can work either?
Yep - Standard Operating Practice! Sometimes we try to barricade roads with farm implements and excess produce! In the end, doesn't seem to make much difference.
