A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
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#2Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
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#3The title from the article is somewhat less clickbait: "A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared"
Re: A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
#4Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
Doesn't seem to be that he didn't anticipate problems, just that he was willing to work through them.
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#5I would love to see a more in depth case study of this.
I also wonder how much of the issue is because it was in some respects a publicity stunt. If instead it had been quietly phased in over two years, I doubt there'd be as many negative ramifications.
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#6Crab Mentality[0]: Not just for people earning slightly-above minimum wage anymore.
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#7Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
No, not at all. I think it would have made more sense to give each employee a raise based on a percentage of their income. That way, everyone gets a pay raise, and you can give more money to the lower earners without offending employees because it is an equal percentage increase.
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#8Interesting. He would have done well to have read The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, which conveys nicely that much of being a CEO is realizing that when you think you're talking to person X (about their salary, etc), you're also sending messages to everyone else in the company. You have to keep everyone in mind, all the time.
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#9Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
I know what you're saying, but I've never understood this logic personally. How does someone else earning more money hurt you? It's not like a person doing better than you is taking your money.
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#10Am I crazy for thinking it seems naive to not anticipate that current employees may not take kindly to people who earn half as much as them getting bumped up to their salaries?
I know what you're saying, but I've never understood this logic personally. How does someone else earning more money hurt you? It's not like a person doing better than you is taking your money.
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