Making salad for a crowd is best when the effort is an intentional confluence of ingredients.
The confluence of problems can serve as a "wake-up call," and a harbinger of climate change, he said.
So you are going to go to your boss and tell him the truth — through a confluence of events that you won't discuss, you discovered that you are making significantly less than your co-workers for essentially the same work and that you would like to be brought up at least to par with them and out of the review cycle and you don't want it to effect your future raises when the review cycle comes around.
