My thoughts entirely and - although I wasn't paying full attention - I think it's what Alan Johnson was saying on the radio 4, PM program about the strikes today. Namely that the people in the public service sector get such ridiculously low salaries and poor pay rises compared with private sector. He said private sector pay rises were all in double figures and public sector workers have had enough of seeing how low their pay is by comparison. Mind you it was ever thus. My husband was a Teacher near the top in terms of Seniority. He died suddenly years ago, but even then the pupils used to laugh at the battered old cars the Staff drove and really looked down on Teachers for their low lifestyles compared with their Dad's incomes from the City and even from jobs not particularly illustrious but where they had their own Company. We were trapped on a certain income, and that meant camping in the UK not flying abroad on holiday, even in those days. But to return to the OP:
I am still not sure that this debate about the £80k in itself is the main point.
I think the point is, the Boss's revelation of 'somebody's' pay which was astronomical and the mention of 'having just done' Jane's review, were both deliberate. There's no doubt there. I actually wonder if the £80k was real or just created to arouse our OP's distress.
I wonder what this boss is actually doing? I think it is deliberate and underhand. The above point, seeing the Pay Form, should be raised as a complaint. I certainly do not trust her. OP has given many examples of her bullying. The fact that 2 people have left and another (or maybe one of them?) suffered mental illness through her is a terrible thing.
I suspect this woman is trying to get a very good and conscientious Employee to leave. This raises the terrible issue as to why?
Indeed, the experience OP has described in the Company, despite her having shown great willing to do anything that comes along, plus trying to approach the bosses for encouragement etc. has been cruel. In the posts here, OP has given examples of them ignoring her or deliberately leaving her out, to the point where she tells us, '"My face doesn’t fit at this company which I’m actually not taking personally, I think it’s a cultural (mis)fit."
As I said in so many words before, that distressed me enormously. Nobody should ever feel their face does not fit. But to feel that the reason behind it
is because that the people at work, the Bosses, find you a 'cultural (mis)fit' and others do not include you and do not give you a chance to progress within the Company despite you are doing everything you can and doing what they say - this is unforgivable! On top of which you discover you are paid massively below other people! Nobody should have to go to work carrying that burden, feeling left out because of of a reason like that. It just should never exist.
I really think we are tiptoeing around the crux of this matter - and I understand why. But we must support our fellow MN member about this. I know it's a very difficult subject. But she has bravely said she feels this and she only feels this because of the way they are treating her! Talking about comparative pay rises is not going to address this, at least not now we know how she feels and that the pay differential is a real problem whatever the Document was.
I really do think, Eastie77Returns, you deserve support on this issue. Do you belong to a Union? Can you look up support there? I would look up how to make a complaint about this document you saw and I would add to it that you feel you are being kept from progressing despite that you try and you do everything you should. You have given all your evidence here. I think you need to say you think the reason this Company or this Boss (but the others did not answer your approach to them so it seems like it is across the whole place) are keeping you from advancing and, worse maybe, holding you down on a vastly lower pay than you should receive is because you come from a different culture.
Obviously you'll be looking for a better job elsewhere, but I would definitely get advice, from your Union, and a Solicitor. Please do this. These people must be stopped. It is very unfair to use you as the one to challenge their toxic ways, but sadly you are the person who is there and the only one who can do it. I'm so terribly sorry this has happened. In the end it might be for the best. You are in a position to do so much good. Think of the many other women like you whom they would bully if you leave and nothing is done. I promise you, once you ask for help people will support you. Years ago I reported a Boss and thought I'd never get a position in that profession again. As soon as I reported her, the local Head Office fell all over me and could not do enough to help me. They had wanted to do something about her for years but had no means to step in. You have the law on your side and many people will be willing to help.
But dwelling on the actual figure £80k won't get us anywhere. It's kind of not seeing the wood for the trees. The wood is that this company has a toxic attitude to OP's culture, and is taking it out on her by making her upset about her pay so that she will leave. They have already been ignoring her and leaving her out and not giving her opportunities. All of what they are doing is against the law. The law is on Eastie77Returns's side. And getting the right help isn't difficult, just google it.
Good luck Eastie77Returns. We are all here for you.
I do hope this helps.