Confidentiality

I am very conscious, thanks to my profession, about information that are 'confidential'. I remember asking my friend after she got an offer from her company if she was 'happy' with the offer and she said, 'why don't you just ask me for my salary, that'll tell you'. I am so uncomfortable asking this information from anybody, even my sister!

So, I was in for a rude shock one fine morning when I was going to office in the Volvo bus, usually plying the 'IT' folks.

'Yes, I can talk now, no problem' that's how this lady from some place in AP (She spoke in Telugu most of time and hence this assumption) started.
With a loud laugh she said 'What is this, I am already getting 5.4LPA and you are offering me 4.75LPA? I am not interested. I have two more offers, one for 6LPA and another for 6.5LPA.' I understood the recruiter from the other end was trying his convincing skills. Finally the lady said 'If you give me minimum 6LPA, I will join, otherwise I am not interested'.

The bus was overflowing with people and our lady wasn't even thinking about us around her! Needless to say, all of us were listening to her.

I wasn't sure what I was appalled by more, her talking about her salary so openly or her bargaining.

Ways of the world, I say!!