EricaJoy
a thing bothered me yesterday and it's still bothering me today and so now i want to tell a story.
One Sunday, some former coworkers & I were bored, talking about salaries on the internal social network instance. A spreadsheet was created.
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we put our salaries in the sheet, realized that it was created on a public to the world spreadsheet, so I copied it to internal.
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I then put a form on it and posted the link to the form and the spreadsheet on my internal social network account. It took off like wildfire
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It got reshared all over the place. People started adding pivot tables that did spreadsheet magic that highlighted not great things re: pay.
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I did some general housekeeping stuff to the sheet (normalizing the gender field where it could be, exchange rate stuff, that sort of thing)
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More reshares. More people adding pay. It became a thing.
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I was invited to talk to my manager on Mon or Tues. Higher up people weren't happy. She wasn't happy. Why did I do it?
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"Don't you know what could happen?" Nothing. It's illegal to retaliate against employees for sharing salaries. "Wellll.... ... ..."
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Meeting ended. Sheet kept going. People were thanking me for it. They were also sending me peer bonuses.
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@EricaJoy I had a very similar experience at Google in 2010. I wrote a comp-sharing app; bad reaction from HR. Would love to talk! DM me?
Michal Csanaky
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