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Matthew FitzGerald, a call center representative at the $836 million Verity Credit Union in Seattle likes his job and he says he's really good at it.

But during a conservation he had with other co-workers during the summer, he discovered that an employee in the call center was getting paid substantially more than other employees who were essentially doing the same amount of work. FitzGerald claims he is a top performer and has repeatedly asked for pay raises. He filed an internal complaint, but he said it never went anywhere.

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