This doesn't bode well for Google, but rather, is damming for what is supposed to be one of the richest places on Earth. Just image trying to live on less than $15/hour.
The story is full of the standard paradoxes: a) She's being paid 'reasonably' but probably not for such a rich company/area b) She's entitled to 'talk about comp' but people slamming the company publicly on Facebook posts are not going to last, it's reasonable that the company wold be upset buy that c) Google is full of actually quite nice people wanting to make a difference, there's a lot of moralizing about 'equity and diversity' but in their relentless pursuit of profit they create a 'tiered class system' of people, of completely secondary status and they grind them with every bit of the massive power they have.
Google is not rich because they 'nickle and dime' people, they're rich because they create a globally useful product, and have enormous market power.
Some things Google could do:
1) They're stinking rich. Pay good wages and give awesome benefit packages.
2) Don't intimate people but let them know if they're leaking information to the press or posting publicly that they're going to be let go.
3) Make every single person from CEO to the servers at lunch 'part of the company' and let them come to company events, and see the 'invited speakers' etc. if they want.
The reason they should do that is because their supposed to be 'good people' i.e. communitarians first. It's hypocritical to virtue signal publicly if they can't make their own beds.
$15 is livable wage in that county though. I checked Zillow and there are ok looking houses starting at 100k ($450/month mortgage = 20% of income). Most expensive house in the county is $2.5M and it's actual lakefront mansion on 10 acres with swimming pool and private pond.
$15/h is unlivable wage in Bay Area or Seattle but actually ok money in many parts of the country.
The story is full of the standard paradoxes: a) She's being paid 'reasonably' but probably not for such a rich company/area b) She's entitled to 'talk about comp' but people slamming the company publicly on Facebook posts are not going to last, it's reasonable that the company wold be upset buy that c) Google is full of actually quite nice people wanting to make a difference, there's a lot of moralizing about 'equity and diversity' but in their relentless pursuit of profit they create a 'tiered class system' of people, of completely secondary status and they grind them with every bit of the massive power they have.
Google is not rich because they 'nickle and dime' people, they're rich because they create a globally useful product, and have enormous market power.
Some things Google could do:
1) They're stinking rich. Pay good wages and give awesome benefit packages.
2) Don't intimate people but let them know if they're leaking information to the press or posting publicly that they're going to be let go.
3) Make every single person from CEO to the servers at lunch 'part of the company' and let them come to company events, and see the 'invited speakers' etc. if they want.
The reason they should do that is because their supposed to be 'good people' i.e. communitarians first. It's hypocritical to virtue signal publicly if they can't make their own beds.