Here's my dilemma.  I work at an organization dedicated to limiting the power of corporations, making sure they don't make profits at the expense of the little people.  We can't work on all issues, but one of the things that is supposed to be central to our mission is treating people well and making sure they have enough to live on.

Our equivalent of a CEO makes more than three times more than our lowest-paid employee.  I don't mind how much she makes (though I think it's more than is necessary), but I do mind that we're hiring kids right out of school to be a personal assistant and paying them more than we're paying organizers with several years experience.  And we're paying them more than people of similar ages and previous experience.

We're so hierarchical that I'm not really allowed to talk to anyone but my supervisor.  He's the only voice I have.  I get that he doesn't have a lot of power.  But he has way more than I do.  And he wants me to shut up about the problems.  I'm supposed to just shut up.

I can't do that.  It's morally reprehensible, never mind hypocritical.  We're an activist-organization and we're supposed to shut up?  Oh, I see.  We're supposed to shut up about the stuff that involves our organization.

The problem is that this crap happens in other places, too, but nonprofits understandably face higher standards.  It's not right.  I have morals and scruples and I guess maybe it's time for me to leave.  Maybe I need to work for myself.   

I wish I knew how to not care.  Then I could ignore all this shit like everyone else does.  I guess I don't know how to "fully support" an organization that I don't fully support.  I fully support our mission and I fully support our specific campaigns.  I don't fully support our issues involving management/salary schedules/hierarchy/etc.  I never will.