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Here in Oslo I was in a startup where we had a British CEO. He argued about me keeping my pay rise secret. I said there's no such thing. We all know what we ear
by intothemild 10y ago
Here in Oslo I was in a startup where we had a British CEO. He argued about me keeping my pay rise secret. I said there's no such thing. We all know what we earn. It's public.
He was shocked. Then next day decided to tell everyone it was a fireable offence to disclose your salary.
Which we then said. That the action of making it a fireable offence is actually illegal and a fireable offence.
(He quit a number of months later)
- reitanqild 10y agoNorway is crazy but sweet. Edit: In fact salaries used to be even more public, printed out and left in public for review.
- danso 10y agoWhat is it now? I'm guessing it's not on the web, which would be vastly more public than in printed form?
- reitanqild 10y agoYep, but now whoever you check will receive a notice about who checked their salary. So basically nobody does anymore which is a shame in some ways. OTOH: Keeping everything wide open with no audit in the time of Internet and free access for East European criminals maybe wasn't the right way either. (E.g. you could plan a raid on rich old people based on electronically searchable archives.)
- danso 10y agoHa. That just reminded me of how I'm on a Texas gov page titled "Sex Offender Registry Export" because I once requested their sex offender database for academic research: https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender/PublicSite/Application/Export/History.aspx https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender/PublicSite/App... I don't mind since my name is so common, but I emailed the Texas agency that they should put a noindex tag to prevent the page from being used against people with less common names (you can register for the registry via what appears to be a system lacking verification).
- draw_down 10y agoSounds like a stupid asshole.