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How workplace social expectations ignore income differences among colleagues

My coworkers assume I can afford to split the bill evenly when we go out but I only ordered a salad because that is all I can pay for.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional environments often assume economic equality among workers that does not exist.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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