imagine this: everyone knowing the offer and starting salary and the increase(s) after that of batchmates and lower batchmates. In my case that was my reality and it sucked. Salaries are confidential for a reason, I knew that first-hand.
Fast-forward to 2011: salary is shared to a very select few in utmost confidence and security. The slightest hint that somebody might have known it especially a batchmate by accident leads to paranoia. If that accident is your fault, you somehow hope that the other person, more so a senior with treat it with respect and act professionally not enquire about your age, correlate that with your salary and intentionally slip the digits to another colleague from your same circle. yes, it is human nature and apparently he is not that type of person so the only alternative left is to appeal to his discretion directly for the digits to remain a secret and confidential as they should be. It should have been an obvious and given fact but considering the person's nature you hoped that would help drive the message: YOU ARE EXTRA SENSITIVE ABOUT IT, YOU WANT TO DROP THE ISSUE AND KEEP IT A SECRET.
The person then goes on to apologize not for the act of revealing the digits indirectly to someone else with some statement like "XXX is doing well at XX, i mean xx(age)". It's hard to imagine whether or not he/she pities you with that statement but what the heck, why does it matter to you anyway? You are already way up there. The person instead apologizes for placing the payslip on your desk. No apologies for lying publicly of not seeing the digits as well. Did somebody just miss the point?
*it is tempting to report this incident just to let people know that not everything are to be taken as a joke. When I say extra sensitive you have to be serious and professional about it.
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