Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in threads on pay and compensation as a quick explanation of why talking about salary helps employees.
What it is
A four-minute Adam Ruins Everything segment on why employers discourage workers from sharing salaries. It argues that discussing pay with coworkers is legal and helps workers.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites Eyes2design · 2016-02 · on “Yelp Fired an Employee After She Wrote a Post About Her Lousy Pay”
Stating your pay is not illegal. In fact, Yelp Violates the State Employer laws by firing her on that account. No Terms of Service should ever interfere/break with state law or federal law. Yelp may be in trouble for that claim. SEE A Adam Ruins Everything (Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary) [this video]
Cites FloNeu · 2016-03 · on “My Passion Was My Weak Spot”
Sorry, but that's stupid... Being exploited and loving it - more sounds like an mental illness then passion. You can keep your passion - even when you get paid fairly... But enjoy your happiness in slavery, if you like. Bad thing is you hurt people who may need fair compensation (wife, kids etc. ) for their work, because you show the suits they can find people stupid enough to do so... [this video]
Cites aq3cn · 2016-11 · on “LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn”
I read an article from Lifehacker about being transparent of your salary. Check out what are the benefits. [LINK] Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary [this video]