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The Microsoft Salary and Review System
f1055man writes "If you can make it through the obvious bias, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WASHTECH) has put together a revealing article on Microsoft's salary and review system. 'Internal Microsoft documents obtained by WashTech News show that Microsoft salaries have been stagnant or nudged only slightly higher over the past two years. Comments from current and former employees about the company's compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers.'"
I'd say that if this was a quote from Gates, any Slashdot summary almost certainly WOULD come with a statement about bias. If it didn't, it would be assumed because the /. crowd is so generally anti-Bill.
And hey, I'm a liberal and proud of it, but you're going to have to explain to me how smaller pay increases for workers who are already in the top 5% of earners is going to cause the collapse of our economy. People are complaining that $75k a year starting salary for a new graduate are too LOW? A schoolteacher with 40 years experience and an M.A. doesn't make nearly that much. You really can't start moralizing without looking silly when you're talking about the rich and priveleged vs. the extremely rich and priveleged. If you're going to argue that Microsoft employees deserve to be in the top 4% rather than merely the top 5%, your argument should probably be grounded in economics rather than moralizing.
I do agree that right-wingers are always the first to cry "bias," and that it's probably made the media a bit gun-shy when it comes to truly objective coverage. But that seems to be a separate issue.