I am a younger manager at my company. I didn't want to be one, but I do my best to respect my staff and give them as much freedom as I can (and they deserve it!) We're engineers, so the work can be grueling, inconsistent, and unrewarded.

I know that my staff are underpaid - so am I. I plan on writing a letter to our collective supervisor to put pressure on him to elevate the budgets of the staff. But since I've already gotten their trust, they've clued me in that: 1. They're already shopping around; 2. One already has a "quit-by" date to travel the world; and 3. Some are planning to walk out without a significant pay boost following this review cycle.

I have no intention of telling my supervisors of any of it. The writing's been on the walls for years, and if they haven't figured if out yet by now...