Well put , I agree . I skimmed over the article . Unnecessary jabs at Conte . <| sep |> What will you spam when it happens ? <| sep |> You found what ? Nothing the FBI had already known about it and it was a big nothing much like everything you throw at them <| sep |> It was retail , and sadly I don ' t know if they did but I wouldn ' t be surprised we were forbidden from talking about payrates , and I only found out after I left . We were racking our brains to try and figure out why he got more than me , because wages were increased only in small increments pennies at a time , essentially . Given the fact that there ' s no merit pay , the only way he could have gotten more is in the fact that he started at a higher wage than I did , because he got the same small raises at the same rate that I did , ensuring that I could not catch up . It ' s possible that they raised the starting wage later , but one would think that senior employees would then be bumped up to that starting wage if they were below it .