In what might be the ultimate power negotiating tactic, a Wells Fargo employee asked his boss for a raise over email and intentionally copied the entire company.
As the Charlotte Observer reports, Tyler Oates, age 30, wrote Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf asking him to give each of the company’s approximate 263,500 a raise of $10,000. According to the Observer, roughly 200,000 of those employees were copied on the exchange.
Why did Oates demand such a hefty pay bump? He wants to reduce the nation’s income inequality.
Aw, that’s sweet. You don’t really see that kind of altruism much anymore. Wait, what’s that?
“By doing this, Wells Fargo will not only help to make its people, its family, more happy, productive, and financially stable, it will also show the rest of the United States, if not the world that, yes big corporations can have a heart other than philanthropic endeavors.”
Oates told the Observer he currently makes $15 an hour processing requests from Well Fargo customers wanting advice on how to stop debt-collection calls. Despite working at the company for seven years, his hourly wage has increased by only $2 since the day he started.
So he’s mad that he’s not on the fast track to the Forbes list of richest people in America with his his highly skilled request processing job? GET THIS KID A “SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE” TROPHY AND A RAISE, STAT.
Or explain to him that his big, mean, corporate CEO of a boss is displaying all of the heart he needs to by not firing him.
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