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 #yallknowwhoyouare), it got around.
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Rejecting PBs was so unheard of, ppl didn't know it was possible. There was outrage when they found out. Shock that I wasn't talking abt it.
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Meanwhile, spreadsheet still going, getting spread around, pointed questions being thrown at mgmt about sharing salary ranges (hahah no).
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Most people agreed that it was A Good Thing. PBs kept rolling in. Rejections kept rolling out.
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One PB eventually got approved. Way after everything died down. Because the person worded it in a way that was vary vague.
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Any that were outright about the spreadsheet got rejected. 7 total in the end I think?
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Higher ups still pissed. Some I used to support as an exec tech would pointedly not interact w/ me anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Before I left, about 5% of former co. had shared their salary on that sheet. People asked for & got equitable pay based on data in the sheet
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The world didn't end. Everything didn't go up in flames because salaries got shared. But shit got better for some people.
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