Well, for one I can say I do feel lucky to have the choice not to work in the video games industry. It seems that these companies in general just treat their employees worse when compared to big tech. Video games are my passion of life and I will gladly never put my work in that realm. Being viewed as deriving pleasure and meaning from your job just puts you in such an exploitable situation.
Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
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#23Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary: Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this n…
Everyone writes their salary on a piece of paper and puts it into a hat. Then you can get a the full distribution.
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#25So possibly unpopular point of view here, maybe not on HN, but I think pay discrepancies can be entirely fair.
I'm almost certain my pay is different from my colleagues, but I've bargained like hell to get it. When I was hired, every time we've been acquired. I'm no executive either, I'm just a developer with a proven history of give-a-damn.
I think it's perfectly fair game in a job where it's hard to replace individuals, jobs where people with the same title can achieve vastly different amounts of value for the company, and especially for a company that values its employees.
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#27So possibly unpopular point of view here, maybe not on HN, but I think pay discrepancies can be entirely fair. I'm almost certain my pay is different from my colleagues, but I've bargained like hell to get it. When I was hired, every time we've been acquired. I'm no executive either, I'm just a developer with a proven history of give-a-damn. I think it's perfectly fair game in a job where it's hard to replace individ…
This is incredibly sexist.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#28Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary: Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this n…
If there is a vastly overpaid asshole in the group, they could throw others off their scent by adding a really small, or even negative value. Then when the overall sum is revealed, they would be able to calculate the correct value for themselves, while everyone else stays gruntled.
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#29At Google there was an internal spreadsheet to track this also. US law protects the rights of workers to discuss the terms of their employment, which of course includes pay.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#30So possibly unpopular point of view here, maybe not on HN, but I think pay discrepancies can be entirely fair. I'm almost certain my pay is different from my colleagues, but I've bargained like hell to get it. When I was hired, every time we've been acquired. I'm no executive either, I'm just a developer with a proven history of give-a-damn. I think it's perfectly fair game in a job where it's hard to replace individ…
As someone who is a strong worker but a bit of a pushover, and whose job description has nothing to do with haggling, I strongly disagree with this. The company benefits if all of their best workers can afford rent, and they gain little by paying effective bargainers a larger slice of the pie.