I don't think I'd feel comfortable if someone posted my name, title, and salary along with everyone I worked with to a public website.
D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership
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#22This is not a good visualization. It's actually harder to find the information one might be interested in and making comparisons is not easy or really possible.
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#23Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…
I hope someone does the math and figure out whether paying money for OT work is more cost effective than just hiring more people.
I personally think OT should be paid in comp time, not cash.
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#24Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…
I personally think hiring more BART employees and expanding the network (creating construction jobs) would be better then the current BART employees making more money (except for maybe those at the very bottom). I also think they lost a lot of public support by striking. I think canvasing the platforms to appeal to the public while continuing operations would have been a better tactic.
Never thought of this, I like. I wonder if they're allowed to do that.
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#25USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?
Salary data on public employees is public data in most (all?) states.
For example, the salaries of all of Texas' 674,000 employees: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
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#26I don't think I'd feel comfortable if someone posted my name, title, and salary along with everyone I worked with to a public website.
To be fair, that information isn't private. It is available for anyone to find.
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#28Astonishing for me from a cross cultural perspective. -Here in the Netherlands mechanics would never come as close to senior management as at BART. The highest ranking mechanics / technical staff are in the $/2 range of senior management? I would venture the same ratio would be >10 here. -You can actually get 100K$ in overtime! Too bad their hours aren't included. -And: all salaries are public including names. No pri…
>-And: all salaries are public including names. No privacy there. This is actually true for all Finnish citizens. It's a bit weird since privacy is (supposed) to be respected here.
I don't see anything unreasonable here as they are public workers. They are paid for by taxpayers and taxpayers should damn well be able to see how much public workers get paid. Besides, the public workers all agreed to this when they enter into the contract.
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#29Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…
Here is my perspective as a daily BART rider where 99% of the time I also have a bike, as well as often travelling with small kids/strollers (Forgive my BART Rage): If you have ever taken a BART elevator; every single BART employee should be fired, here is why:
BART elevators, in 100% of my experience over the years has been a cesspool covered in urine and who knows what. EVERY time I take the elevator - I hit the emergency help button and complain about the stench, the state of the service.
Every station operator has had the exact same response: "It's not my job" -- to which I tell them "Then tell someone whose job it is!"
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I am enraged that I have to pay for such a horrible rider experience, that I have to subject my small children to the horrific conditions of the BART elevators, their filthy cloth seats and their terrible customer service.
I would be happy to have these people make a great salary if they could keep the basics of a clean, safe, efficient service going. As it stands now - I have no sympathy for anything they are doing due to the conditions of the service.
I now exclusively take my bike up the escalator. The station operators try to tell me to take the elevator, and I say I refuse to take it until they clean them.
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#30I don't think I'd feel comfortable if someone posted my name, title, and salary along with everyone I worked with to a public website.
Then don't plan on working for the government.
I work in Higher Education and every few years the local newspaper in my area posts our salary information on the web, just in a less visual way.