> What we did instead is make sure that everyone, including new college hires, understood that talking about pay almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our company toward an IPO.
I hope you've provided some very concrete examples how talking about pay delayed an IPO by a certain period of time, and quantified how much exactly hires were losing because of it, in exact dollar values.
Because otherwise, it's just a gaslighting scare tactic.
> It's not a threat if you just explain how the real world works and that actions have consequences.
One of the consequences of bullshitting new hires with vague examples of how the real world works is that you end up with people willing to drink the kool-aid, regardless of their skills and ability. Now maybe that was your primary goal in the first place, but somehow I doubt it.
I hope you've provided some very concrete examples how talking about pay delayed an IPO by a certain period of time, and quantified how much exactly hires were losing because of it, in exact dollar values.
Because otherwise, it's just a gaslighting scare tactic.
> It's not a threat if you just explain how the real world works and that actions have consequences.
One of the consequences of bullshitting new hires with vague examples of how the real world works is that you end up with people willing to drink the kool-aid, regardless of their skills and ability. Now maybe that was your primary goal in the first place, but somehow I doubt it.