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Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com)
gollum123 writes: More employers, from Whole Foods Market, with 91,000 employees, to smaller companies such as SumAll and Squaremouth, are opening up companywide salary information to all employees. They generally don't disclose it to the public—but one company, Buffer, posts all employees' salaries on its website. The idea of open pay is to get pay and performance problems out on the table for discussion, eliminate salary inequities and spark better performance. But open pay also is sparking some awkward conversations between co-workers comparing their paychecks, and puncturing egos among those whose salaries don't sync with their self-image.
"Happiness Hero"? She's the one in charge of happy endings... apparently it's a quite highly paid position; not sure whether or not knee pads are provided.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Yeah, Norwegians are atypical. They jump out of saunas into frozen lakes... nothing fazes them!
Only when they hear the words "The lutefisk is ready!". It's a purely defensive measure.
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We had to work 29 hours a day and pay for permission to come to work...
We had to work 29 hours a day and pay for permission and crawl across a field of broken glass to get in the back door to work...
But you tell the young folks that and they'll never believe you.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.