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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by hueving on Saturday July 18, 2015 @07:29AM (#9907292)
I take it you've never worked in or around sales with a commission? One big deal can easily quadruple a salesperson's salary for the quarter. When that happens, people will downplay the deal as just being luck and get upset that the salesperson is making so much. However, they don't bat an eye when the salesperson doesn't make their quota a couple quarters in a row and gets fired.

People get jealous and can't handle the truth because a huge chunk of people don't even understand how a business works. Especially from an engineering side, it's really hard to swallow the fact that you have all of the skills and actually created the product, yet you will make 10% of what good salespeople make.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by ghaff on Saturday July 18, 2015 @10:47AM (#9907660)
Pretty much. The same people who see salespeople as overpaid schmoozers and order-takers (some are, many aren't) would be utterly horrified at the thought they themselves could be fired without a second thought because of an organizational change or budget cut at a key account.
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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday July 18, 2015 @11:07AM (#9907704)
This happens to engineers often enough.
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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by ghaff on Saturday July 18, 2015 @11:28AM (#9907759)
Well, yes, projects get canceled and people get fired as a result. But there tends to be less of a direct linkage with this quarter's revenue than in the case of sales.
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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by tomjen3 on Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:21AM (#9907482)
That is because sales people are overrated because you can measure what they bring to the table.

Programmers, not so much.

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