Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency @knguyenpoetry Twitter profile

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

1 year

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.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

My hot take is that Ch*tGPT is free right now because it needs you to feed it your stories, essays, and poems for free, and when it’s done taking all you have, they’ll put it all behind a paywall.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

4 years

Poets be like “I know a place” and it’s the moon. Again.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

My male coworker and I both asked for raises in 2022 and were told we’d be notified in April. In April, performance reviews were suspended indefinitely. I just found out my coworker still got his raise and was told not to tell so they could get away with not giving me mine.

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

I asked my job for a raise by doing what every article told me to do and sent over data about what my role in my location is currently getting paid + the value I provide and my HR team literally responded “go work somewhere else then good luck” lmfaooo

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I don’t want to hear one more peep out of them about diversity, equity, and inclusion. I don’t wanna see any more of our C-suite execs recommend books for women’s history month. There were tangible actions they could’ve taken and they chose to perform these values. No thank you.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Someone on Reddit asked, “if you’re injured as a result of a mass shooting, are you responsible for that medical bill?” And I find that a uniquely American question.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I have also been arguing for months about the pay inequity. I have told my managers multiple times that I know I’m being underpaid. I have gotten the runaround, and they know they can do this right now in a tough labor market.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

AHAHA THEY TOOK DOWN THE LINKEDIN JOB LISTING

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Wait they just posted it again as a separate job posting. Who in HR is misunderstanding the assignment? Can I apply again?

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@blktinabelcher I’ve got some audacity too so I posted the link in the group chat of all of us underpaid UX writers and now we’ve got an emergency meeting tomorrow to talk about it

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Leave Twitter just because it’s fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? Babe, I’m in academia.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

They're saying it was an internal posting and wasn't meant for anyone to apply to externally because public companies legally have to post jobs even if it's an internal conversion...but that doesn't solve the fact that someone internally is now still going to make $32k+ more???

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I'm officially announcing that I am looking for UX writing roles preferably remote, but I am currently located in New York City. Let me know if you have any leads.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

True MVP award goes to my coworker for saying, "wtf is this salary range? None of us make even close to the bottom end salary range."

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

This is just a friendly reminder that buying a book, reading it, and then returning it actually costs authors money. It’s not net zero. Stop using Amazon as a library and go to the real library.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

This tweet is blowing up so consider supporting me through this period of me being egregiously underpaid by buying my debut poetry collection just published last year by Write Bloody Publishing.

Here I Am Burn Me — Kimberly Nguyễn

Order best-selling Vietnamese-American diaspora poet Kimberly Nguyen's latest collection of poems, Here I Am Burn Me, published by Write Bloody Publishing.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Now we're talking about possible layoffs because what better way to get people to take what they're given and shut up than to threaten them with job loss?

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

I love how they didn’t even give me the HR answer of “at this time we don’t have this in the budget etc etc” they went straight to “just quit”. Like damn y’all if I didn’t have 8 months left on my lease I fucking would

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

10 months

But yeah if they get hit with fines for the multiple laws they’re currently breaking (if HR responds with this mess you can imagine how up to date they are on current workplace laws) I hope they know it was me who reported them. Don’t dish it if you can’t take it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

TLDR: nobody is getting a raise. Nobody is getting anything. Salary transparency for what?

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@yannitweetshere If the difference where like $10-15k I feel like I’d be less upset. But I’ve been asking for a raise for months and they’re out here flaunting they’re willing to pay a new person at least $32k more than me??? For the same job??

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

I used to work in student loan servicing and here are the top things I think people need to know about their federal student loans and how to make them manageable if you’re really struggling to pay them. A thread:

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Not people throwing their hands up in this meeting and saying "There is no such thing as pay equity."

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@roxdtvc Their hashtag is dead ass “Together We Shine” like gtfoh

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Lol pretty sure my job just tried to call me to yell at me. Catch me living under a bridge next week ✌🏼

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Every day I find a new human rights violation at my job and every day I escalate it and every day someone shrugs and says there’s nothing they can do and fighting unethical behavior shouldn’t be this hard and exhausting. I truly don’t know what to do anymore.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I could be wrong. I admittedly don’t know enough about AI to be convinced I’m right. But I do know somebody is gonna wanna collect profit from AI soon. And it won’t be writers.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Turns out they were like psst psst here’s your raise don’t tell the other contractors because they allowed him to circumvent the process and they weren’t allowing me to. I’m fuming.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

9 months

Y’all COVID is surging again and “milder strains” my ass because I’m over here throwing up and even water is making me nauseous. Wear a mask. Avoid crowds.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

We were both asked to submit reviews from our managers and told we’d have to wait for the review cycle to close in order to receive a decision. Decisions have not been given out since the cycle was suspended due to “market conditions”.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

But I was casually talking to him about some work stuff and he said “I got my pay adjusted for this” and I said wait when? And he said April. And I said, “They told me I needed to wait for the cycle to close and decisions to come out. And they haven’t because they suspended it.”

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Being a contractor is stupid because large companies use agencies to cushion themselves and when the agencies do shady things the company can go “oops that’s on the agency we had nothing to do with it."

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I truly cannot wait for this meeting tomorrow where my managers get to explain what the hell my company was thinking when they posted this job listing. And I’m willing to bet my whole salary they’ll say, “there’s nothing we can do about your current pay.”

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

But this is another reason pay transparency is so important because companies hide shady behavior like this by telling their workers to keep their pay a secret. I wouldn’t have ever known had this not accidentally come up in conversation.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

I’m asking earnestly and honestly: what are you supposed to do when you witness unethical behavior at work? It doesn’t feel right to keep my head down and do nothing. But it feels like that’s what I’m supposed to do at this point. I don’t trust my leadership to address this.

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@_cat_turner The day I sign a new offer I’m going to literally email “I quit” and will never be found again

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Honestly very happy for my coworker because we’re both underpaid as hell. But it’s the unequal treatment that’s boiling my blood. And honestly based on my previous grievances I should’ve seen this coming but never thought it’d be so blatant.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Anyone who comes at me saying I’m maybe not that good at my job will be blocked bc they can just reject my request and cite performance but they haven’t release our performance reviews yet allowed my coworker to get a raise outside one when telling me I could only get one w/ one

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

AND since some of y’all are assholes here’s the screenshot. Coworker redacted for obvious reasons.

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@knguyenpoetry

3 years

In Vietnamese you spend the first 30 minutes of meeting someone trying to figure out how to address them all that chị/em/cô/bà/bạn/cầu/tớ/tao/mày so no I don’t have any sympathy for people who can’t spend 2 seconds learning someone’s pronouns.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

I’m so excited to unveil my new photo, taken by Beowulf Sheehan, as a way to mark a transition into a new phase in my life. I am no longer emerging. I have emerged.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@JOANNAessayist Thank you!! I just really hope the recruiters reach out and schedule me for interviews with my current managers so I can be like hey what’s up

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@knguyenpoetry

8 months

The average rents for a 1-bed in NYC: Manhattan: $4300 Queens: $2995 Brooklyn: $4250 Bronx: $2125 Staten Island: $1600 What you need to make to qualify on average: Manhattan: $172k Queens: $120k Brooklyn: $170k Bronx: $85k Staten Island: $64k Not coming to the office for $42k

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@LouGirl502 I made a gender discrimination complaint because they gave my male coworker a raise outside of normal process and told him to keep it a secret and did not give me one and kept citing policy that says they treat everyone equally.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@yannitweetshere I posted the link in the group chat of all of us current UX writers and our bosses and said, “so what are the vibes? Can we apply?” And now they’ve called an emergency meeting tomorrow morning to explain themselves.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Also, if you're not trying to read garbage AI copy and want to support a real writer, consider buying a copy of my new book so I can keep writing. Unlike AI, I have to live. Thanks y'all the realest.

Here I Am Burn Me — Kimberly Nguyễn

Order best-selling Vietnamese-American diaspora poet Kimberly Nguyen's latest collection of poems, Here I Am Burn Me, published by Write Bloody Publishing.

kimberlynguyenwrites.com

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Anyway, you can support me by buying copies of my book and leaving reviews all over the place so I can continue to fight for pay equity and transparency. Thanks y’all you’re the best. 🙄

Here I Am Burn Me — Kimberly Nguyễn

Order best-selling Vietnamese-American diaspora poet Kimberly Nguyen's latest collection of poems, Here I Am Burn Me, published by Write Bloody Publishing.

kimberlynguyenwrites.com

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@skeletonman20 Employers are out of control right now we all need to collectively organize

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

And I can’t wait for the gaslighting where they’re like, “we want you to know we appreciate you and your contributions” while their hiring and pay practices continue to disrespect and undervalue us.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@CannulaT I asked it to write a script in the exact style of the Bee Movie so I hope they find that usage case valuable lmfao

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

@GarySatter No I’ve been interviewing since literally January to get the fuck out. The work environment is honestly so hostile and toxic. But like everywhere has been doing layoffs and slowing hiring so it’s a great time to companies to screw their employees over.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I saw the GoFund Me for the single, surviving 6 year old son from that family that was gunned down at the outlet mall in Texas and my whole heart broke because no amount of money is ever going to replace his mom, dad, and baby brother.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Amazon doesn’t eat the cost of returns. They pass it back to the publishers who pass it back to the writers. You’re not gaming a large corporation. When you buy a book, read it, and then return it, you’re stealing from authors.

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@knguyenpoetry

7 months

I have one final job interview tomorrow and tbh if I don’t get this one,I give up. It’s been an exhausting 10 months job searching. I’ve done countless interviews and take-home tests. I deserve more but I also deserve rest.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

If you lose your job, your minimum payment can be $0 and be counted as a valid on-time payment. You need to call your student loan servicer and apply for an income driven repayment plan. In fact any time your income changes, you can ask for your minimum payment to be recalculated

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

First of all, any time your loan changes status for any reason (in school deferment to repayment status or repayment status back to in school deferment), your interest capitalizes (gets added to your principle balance).

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

@mtheythem I want cash not a fucking taco lunch. How is a taco lunch going to help me save for retirement or a down payment on a house?

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I've been sexually harassed in every single job I've had since I was 17, and I felt much safer at work when we started going remote, and I don't think we're talking about it enough.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

This means that if you’re graduating, and you have the ability to pay down that interest, you should because otherwise it’ll get added to the balance your interest rate is calculated off of! Until the status changes, the accrued interest and principle balance is separate!

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

My relationship with self promo changed after I read @chenchenwrites ’s thread about how self promo actually requires a huge amount of humility to acknowledge that people aren’t just going to flock to you. You have to go actively find your audience.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

One of the income driven repayment plans also pauses interest on your subsidized loans and pays for 50% of the interest on your unsubsidized loans for 3 years! But you have to renew the plan every year! Don’t forget otherwise the clock keeps ticking but you don’t get the benefits

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

I found out today that almost half of my Amazon sales from April were purchased and returned and that’s actually going to cost me money per return taken straight out of my royalties, which aren’t a lot of begin with.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I applied for a job on March 13. I did 3 rounds of interviews, went through a WHOLE process. Got rejected yesterday (May 16) only after reaching out to the recruiter for the 2nd time asking for an update. Y’all I’m tired.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

For the love of god do not consolidate your loans with a private company because they will not offer you any aid when you fall into hard times and the federal government does. Once you consolidate them out, you can’t bring them back.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@Guiness_Pig This happened at my last job which is why I left.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

The government has many existing forgiveness programs—teacher loan forgiveness, public service loan forgiveness to name a few—call your student loan servicer to learn about eligibility!

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@knguyenpoetry

9 months

I feel like there’s something uniquely American about hating the arts because when I tell people from other countries I’m a poet they think that’s the coolest shit they’ve ever heard and I am always shocked and pleasantly surprised

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I am so wildly grateful to everyone who has sent me job leads. It's so touching to know that a bunch of strangers are rooting for me to get paid my market value and more. If I haven't responded to you, please try emailing me, DMing me or messaging me on LinkedIn.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

You only get one 6 month grace period per loan. So if you take a year off school, your 6 month grade period is used at that time for the loans you already have, and when you graduate, those loans immediately become due because you already used the grace period.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@DissieBishop @Madiii03 People really do believe in the power of lawsuits but I fail to see how you can sue a shooter for your medical bills if they have no money or assets.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@FogboundT I actually tried that. The offer ended up getting rescinded as the other company ended up doing layoffs but not before my current company told me they didn’t have the budget to give me a penny more.

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

Y’all, pay equity and transparency are hills I am willing to die on, but I also have to pay my rent and eat. Please do not do hella Google searches in order to reach out to my employer or harass them online because that will definitely not get me pay equity.

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@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@LouGirl502 I literally cited many examples of them treating employees unequally and said “saying it’s your policy to treat people equally is not the same as actually treating people equally in practice.”

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@knguyenpoetry

1 year

@jimothydrake @blktinabelcher I feel like my job is already in jeopardy. I am not trying to make it worse. I’m just trying to get what the job listing said I *could* get 😭

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Your loans come with 36 months of forbearance, which are months you can skip payments for any reason no questions asked. If you reconsolidate, it’s considered a new loan with a new 36 months of forbearance. Don’t reconsolidate until you have to if you want to maximize this.

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@knguyenpoetry

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@grace_m_stetson I filed a discrimination complaint because they allowed my coworker to get a raise outside of process and not me and I was like wtf why are you treating us differently and they were like lol go away

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@knguyenpoetry

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@Oriannarosa Hey, I don’t think I got your message!

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@knguyenpoetry

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If you remain on an income driven repayment plan for I believe 20/25 years, your loans get forgiven/discharged. They haven’t decided which it is yet because no one is there yet but the difference is one is taxed and one isn’t. But you have to renew it every year for it to count.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

@michaeltavon I think the trend started as a TikTok “hack” on how to read books for free and it went super viral without people realizing it hurts authors. And I think sometimes people truly don’t think of the consequences because they happen outside their line of sight.

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@knguyenpoetry

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My ex-boyfriend broke up with me because (and I quote) “she’s poor”, but in the past 5 years, from my first job out of college until now, I’ve increased my salary by $73k. Never discount someone because of where they are at a certain moment in time.

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Adding that you do NOT have to consolidate with a private lender!! You can consolidate with the federal government!!! Private companies take advantage of the fact that 1) people don’t know this and 2) people are willing to gamble for a lower interest rate

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Watching the video of that woman testifying that she had to wait until she hit sepsis to terminate her high risk pregnancy radicalized me because in any other context when you do that it’s negligence and malpractice

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@MoiraDonegan

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Women are going septic in parking lots and being forced to abandon their dreams. They’ve been denigrated, endangered, and humiliated en masse. Abortion rights are a defining electoral issue. At this seismic moment, Biden says he’s “not big on abortion.”

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@knguyenpoetry

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If you take out new loans, those still have a 6 month grace period, which will also kick in when you graduate, but when they come due after the grace period, the minimum amount you have to pay each month may jump because those loans were in grace. Be prepared.

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@knguyenpoetry

9 months

I feel like if you get food poisoning and you say “stay away from that food” people are like okay good call. But the moment you say “maybe wear a mask and avoid crowds” these conspiracy theorists get so fucking mad like okay get sick I’m too sick to care

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@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Normally I promote my book when my tweet threads go viral, but this time I want to ask you to consider donating to @QuestBridge , which helps high-achieving low-income scholars access higher education:

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Okay I guess I should add that simply not paying your federal loans is not an option. They’ll garnish your wages and put a lien on your house. The DOE and IRS don’t mess around.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

@Salma_T Oh I’m just waiting for the dude bros to come on here and tell me it’s my imagination and that the other guy MUST be better at his job.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

The program will ask for your most recent income information. So if you made a ton of money last year but this year you make much less, you can submit pay stubs instead of your 1040. Submit what most accurately reflects your CURRENT income.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

10 months

@ladidaix I’m still looking. Definitely being more picky about my next role and making it a point in interviews to ask about culture because I can’t do this again

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I don’t think I will ever stop talking about emotional abuse because I was so unkind to a friend a while ago because I thought it was so obvious her partner was emotionally abusing her, but then I entered an emotionally abusive relationship myself and now I understand.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

7 months

The poet/the poem

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

But keep in mind that’s a status change from repayment to forbearance and back to repayment. Your interest will capitalize twice because your loans will have changed status technically 2 times. Your interest will also capitalize if you change repayment plans.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I hate the “I paid off my student loans and so should you” because I’m the only kid my parents beat before they realized it didn’t work, and I never once looked back and said, “that’s not fair. You should beat my sisters too to even it out.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

6 months

For those of you who have been following my job search journey, I am so excited to announce that I have accepted a job offer at JP Morgan and will be starting on Monday. Thank you to you all for the encouragement and support throughout these long 7 months of job searching.

Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

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.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

I told my manager today that women on average have less in retirement savings by the time they hit retirement age. I said I can’t wait around for this company to do the right thing. I want to retire, to buy a house. $32k-$90k is a significant loss to endure indefinitely.

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

@BernieFireball What a coward lmfao wtf

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

2 years

HAPPY PUB DAY TO ME!!!

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

11 months

Get your renew paperwork in on time! If your loans falls out of the income driven repayment plan, even if you are back in a month later when you turn in the paperwork on time, your interest will capitalize when you fall out and when you get put back on!

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Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency

@knguyenpoetry

1 year

My original tweet was just me whining on my little corner of the Internet. I did not expect it to resonate with so many of you. I’m really glad a dialogue is being opened. I’m glad companies are feeling more pressure, but nobody wins if we just all get each other fired.

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