Yeah, I remember in my own early days in an office environment and I'd been invited to a group-wide meeting with the directors Q&A session and it was one of these bullshit meetings where you got assigned a seat depending on your position. At that time I was newly promoted and sitting somewhere in the middle and someone from the back of me shouted out 'why are we paying Neville (the chairman) half a million pounds a year when the industry standard is about 300K?' and the answer from the meeting chair was 'well if we want the best, we have to pay the best', and in that instant my mouth moved faster than my sense of self preservation and I shouted back 'but we also want the best cleaners and receptionists don't we? so why are we paying them less than their industry average?' and *then* they started using excuses about that disparity. That went down about as well with my own boss as you'd expect because he said i'd embarrassed him - by not playing the fucking politics game that is expected if you want a key to the posh bathrooms in the office environment. I hate that sort of shit, but these days i'm better at picking my battles.