vrud,
Great post. I had the same situation multiple time sin my career. At one point I was the top producer at a software start-up and watched one nitwit after another get a salary 50% above my own. I’m talking real nitiwts who never produced anything. from that point on I learned it was how you gamed the system and how much you were willing to ask for which determined what you got. What you are actually worth made very little difference.
