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What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable. In this case, formatting the text in a readable way would probably get you sued. Those tweets belong to Twitter now and are good for nothing else but ferrying ads. I won't have my time wasted by trying to read that crap.

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging?

It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #9
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Can someone please tl.dr this First we had articles spread over dozens of pages for the laugh, now we have articles split into 160char segments, grrrrrr

She created an internal spreadsheet allowing Googlers to add their salary information. Lots of people helped tweak the sheet adding data visualizations, comparisons, etc. Google management told her they didn't like it, she pointed out that you can't be fired for sharing salary information. Lots of colleagues were giving her "peer bonuses" for setting this up, but her manager kept blocking them, something which is app…

So no different than any other company and a big fuss about 5% usage.

Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #6

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. 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. I then put a form on it and posted the link to the…

Rich people problems! Why is this a thing and why on front page?

Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #11
post #2

The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable. In this case, formatting the text in a readable way would probably get you sued. Those tweets belong to Twitter now and are good for nothing else but ferrying ads. I won't have my time wasted by trying to read that crap.

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

Nope, /much/ better to light up my phone 30 times. ;)

Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #11
post #2

The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable. In this case, formatting the text in a readable way would probably get you sued. Those tweets belong to Twitter now and are good for nothing else but ferrying ads. I won't have my time wasted by trying to read that crap.

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

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Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #11
post #2

The article format is completely busted by Twitter's display rules and made unreadable. In this case, formatting the text in a readable way would probably get you sued. Those tweets belong to Twitter now and are good for nothing else but ferrying ads. I won't have my time wasted by trying to read that crap.

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

Quick and easy articles. Your effort is compiling the tweets and inserting a lead.

Re: What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

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post #9
post #3

Can someone please tl.dr this First we had articles spread over dozens of pages for the laugh, now we have articles split into 160char segments, grrrrrr

She created an internal spreadsheet allowing Googlers to add their salary information. Lots of people helped tweak the sheet adding data visualizations, comparisons, etc. Google management told her they didn't like it, she pointed out that you can't be fired for sharing salary information. Lots of colleagues were giving her "peer bonuses" for setting this up, but her manager kept blocking them, something which is app…

What's a peer bonus?
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