Lady reapplies for her job after company advertised her position with pay raise of N41.4m
Emily Schmidt
Updated on April 07, 2026
A Vietnamese-American lady took to her Twitter page to reveal how she reapplied for her own job while still employed by the company after she saw that they advertised her position on Linkedin for higher pay.
According to the lady identified as Kimberly Nguyen, her company is willing to pay $90,000 (N41.4m) more than they currently pay her to the new recruit for the same job so she currently holds.
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She said she is working as a UX writer for the company and after she saw that they are hiring another UX writer for $32k-$90k more, she sent in her application as she has been demanding a salary raise to no avail.
Kimberly, who is also a poet, said her reapplication resulted in an emergency meeting among her company management.
She tweeted, “My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what I’m currently doing (so we’re hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied.”
See her post below:
My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what I’m currently doing (so we’re hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied.
— Kimberly Nguyen (@knguyenpoetry) March 7, 2023
Kimberly’s tweet attracted outrage from members of the public who chastised the company.
@denshewman wrote, “Glad you’re taking them up on their accidental offer to pay you more 🙂 Good luck with the meeting, looking forward to an update!”
@ChristenP said,”I found out that my male friend who was a department manager just like me made $15k more a year even though we had the same job. I went to HR & complained & all they did was post signs everywhere saying telling people your salary was a firing offense.”
@girl75219 wrote, “That’s when you have to leave and take your skills elsewhere. Don’t be paid less.”
@whereisheather commented, “This happened to me and I was very direct about it with my boss. It was awkward but I kept at it, and ended up getting a 20% raise – for “market parity”.”
@Darrenmjones1 said, “The current trend is to pay the going rate to new applicants while keeping current employees wages who do the same job the same. And this is right across the board regardless of gender. I don’t understand it because if you leave they’re going to have to pay the new rate anyway.”
