a thing bothered me yesterday and it's still bothering me today and so now i want to tell a story.
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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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here's how peer bonuses work @ former co: If you did something good, someone peer bonuses you, you get $150 net in your next paycheck.
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An important thing I learned during that time: peer bonuses are rewarded at managers discretion. My manager was rejecting all of them.
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Wasn't sure if this would be good for the company. Wanted to see what the outcome was. Mind you once a PB is rejected, that can't be undone.
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Meanwhile, one of the other people involved, a white dude (good friend I won't name, he can name himself if he wants), was also getting PBs.
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His weren't getting rejected. I told him mine were. He was pissed. Wanted to tell everyone what was happening. I declined.
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A smattering of people knew what was going on. Backchannels being what they are at former co. (lol IRC
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What happened when
@EricaJoy started talking about#salaries at@google: http://wrd.cm/1OGPQwo pic.twitter.com/03ejlsEhGD
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@EricaJoy I too worked for Google, but as a temp. My manager met with me once then ignored me and fired me for not responding to one email0 retweets 0 likes
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