Same Pay = More Snobbery?

Oh, neat, this blogging stuff is so cool. Bricoleur has chimed in to the law school snobbery conversation and added a new twist. He/she (I will learn which when I'm not in a hurry) says it's about the lock step pay scale. Fascinating. I promise to think more about the ideas proposed. (But boy would I be pissed to be paid half of what the Pedigree School gal in the office beside me were paid...although it would be instructive to watch her demonstrate how she was worth two of me. The annual performance review would have to include some kind of salary levelling function, I would suggest.) You do wonder if the "We use pedigree as a short cut because it's so much more efficient to screen candidates that way" rationale would go away if there were an economic incentive for firms to shop around. Hmmm, this seems like the germ of a pretty cool idea....

I promise to keep thinking about this and hopefully put together a more cogent reaction; in the meantime, I hope the smart folks reading & discussing the topic will keep the good ideas coming.

Update: Bricoleur is a guy.

Comments

[Jerry Doolittle]

Hi,Scheherazade

This may be a bit off-topic, but I thought I'd put it here rather than back in the snobbery archives. Here's my advice for the next time somebody looks surprised that you went to a fancy college and then to a nonfancy law school in a small state. Tell her that since you plan on being a governor or a senator, both your political and your statistical chances will be greater in a small state. Refer to Richard Cheney, who got himself expelled from Yale and completed his education in Wyoming when this point occurred to him. He later became vice president in the Rove administration.

As to M. Bricoleur, I already figured he must be a man. There is an old French song that starts out, "Mon dieu quel bonheur, mon dieu quel bonheur, d'avoir un mari qui bricole/ Mon dieu quel bonheur, mon dieu quel bonheur, d'avoir un mari bricoleur — boîte à outils, boîte à outils." As it goes on, the wife describes in detail the glories of her handyman husband's toolbox.