I worked for a company that fired two developers for disclosing salaries. (An executive put a spreadsheet of them on a public drive.) It wasn't just the differe

I worked for a company that fired two developers for disclosing salaries. (An executive put a spreadsheet of them on a public drive.) It wasn't just the difference in salaries that got people upset. It was the lies management had told when people had asked for raises: "Nobody makes that" or "You're already one of the highest paid developers." A year later, when the company didn't make enough sales to pay bonuses according to their plan, they gave bonuses to a few select people. Oddly, rather than keeping this secret, they announced it in a company meeting. My favorite moment was one developer asking, "When will you be letting those people know?"