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Woman Posted Her Tech Salary on Tiktok and Got Fired

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0:00 thank you [Music] this one's a good one to ask you because you got your own company with employees and all right yeah okay so this is what happened to this girl who moves to Denver gets a job at the tech field and uh she's really excited about getting like a higher salary on her Tick Tock uh she posts what her salary increases and how much she makes the company sees it and fires her oh that's interesting is there something in contracts where you're not supposed to disclose how much you make and ████ like that when you sign into companies there's things you're not supposed to disclose but salary is not one of them I don't think you're at least from my understanding like in terms of protection of salary data that actually is more empowering for the employees to be able to share that because they'll understand who's being paid more and why

0:51 they're not paid more than the company itself I know there's a lot of companies out there that have a policy um of like firing people or reprimanding people for for sharing that like for me as an employer I don't publish like what everybody makes but I think everybody knows what they make and they Talk Amongst each other and I'm okay with it yeah yeah why do you think it's uh they don't want that well particularly in this case the company said they that it scared them that somebody like her was just kind of putting information out when I guess they have some things that are a little more sensitive especially in the position she worked in with tech they're like oh if you're just going to be post if you have like an active social media account we don't feel safe then talk to her God damn no but the actual so here's like this this other side of it too like

1:41 when covet hit like people started realizing what their true value was and there's a lot of people quitting and stuff like that so actually what happens is like at least in my opinion especially as an accountant when people are not allowed to share their salaries it allows the companies to actually artificially press down the income that everyone makes because nobody knows yeah so like open sharing type of like that's shady yeah so there's actually like I know there's something in there's like a Labor Act or something where it's protected that you're allowed to talk about your salary to other employees like you can't be uh penalized for that so people are saying that maybe she shared a little more than that and she's just not saying or something and maybe it's not because of her salary shared thing but she shared how she got the salary and that was a no no she was she

2:32 attacked the guy was she planning to work for Elon Musk was that the thing exactly he's got his scales man he's trying to get pregnant on the on like film Devil's Advocate too though I also think that if she was truly valuable she wouldn't have been dropped like that that's true yeah yeah because they're like dude you ████ crazy let's talk about this right because you're genius we need you yeah don't do that again please yeah is there a is there like a probation or a period let's say you hire somebody is there a period of time where if you fire them soon enough you don't have to do like a severance and all this stuff so like every state is different yeah state by state right state by state is different so certain states are what we call everyone's added at will employee status so as employees could provide two weeks notice for whatever decide to quit for whatever yeah employers can also fire

3:23 for whatever but there's certain protected things that they can't fire for or they'll get right in trouble with the labor board because I I agree like people shouldn't discriminate by like race and all these things that's that's that's that's that's just human decency but I think people should get fired for their smell they should get fired for you know like smelling like caca coming into work grooming habits yeah yeah like too much eye boogers in the eye oh that's nice pretty fireable that's that that's the limit right stinky breath breath thank you Brad especially if you're a cashier what if you're just like a stockroom guy like you're just putting box of mine that doesn't matter that doesn't matter but then I mean like people do that dude there's people that will ████ shower for like days did you could you understand the feeling of

4:13 hiring somebody and then finding out that they are so active on social media they're willing to share all these details and you run a company that's a little bit more like sensitive on the info side well if I'm in the Pentagon I'm gonna be like dude can you stop posting Tick Tock videos about are you think it moves in Afghanistan yeah he just flexing and there's the ████ the string with the head Terrace to try to take out and like you know [Laughter] right now check it out yeah yeah if I'm at if I'm work if I'm working at Area 51 right I wouldn't want my ████ employee making a tick tock video with one of the great aliens and ████ like that's too sensitive dude yeah

5:03 I feel like uh they just saw what she did and was just like oh we didn't know she was like a big mouth kind of thing like it's probably that it's probably that plane where they're like tattletail ass but then on the on the other side of it as far as I talk about people's uh salaries in public it's like athletes we hear that about athletes all the time we find out what they're making for the year the same time they find out you'll say it's like posted for the world to see it you understand like so like it's definitely like the value because of course they're gonna talk about LeBron how much he made or Kyrie how much he's making to stay with so-and-so team because it's like I mean we need you so it's like yeah I don't think it doesn't matter you know there's a lot of uh like tick tockers that let's say they work at like Burger King or something and they do like tick tocks about what they're doing in the back and then Burger King fires some kind of ████ that's kind of been happening a lot where like you get into inside look at what the job is like

5:53 from one side and it goes on social media and companies don't like that they you know maybe that's the thing where someone higher up was like you better nip that in the bud you know she's gonna start talking too much and then you get another problem she forgot to put it in her green circle bro she didn't put it in the close friends she put that in the public you know what I'm saying green ring it you got to learn which things are you know for the people that's close I also think people kind of forget a little bit to like you know like in elementary school you learn like don't do the things to other people you don't want done to you so like imagine like you had an assistant or like a babysitter or something like would you want them to Tick-Tock or underwear drawer or whatever right and it's like it's like yeah technically it's not illegal or it's not whatever but it's just like it's out of bad taste yeah yeah so I think it's kind of it's kind of that thing where it's like yeah it's not

6:44 illegal but sometimes it's more than that it's like the kind of in between the lines things and if they're like a a new tech company that got some new proprietary thing they're gonna take to Market or whatever I could totally see why they're like dude we're ████ revolutionary here and you just already like that I'm just I'm gonna snip it in the butt right away even though it's not illegal or whatever right I think it kind of depends too right like what what people do in the privacy of their own homes is separate from what happens at work and as long as she's not disclosing like Trade Secrets like if you're doing something in back when you're working and shooting a tick tock and you're disclosing how they're these are frozen patties from Afghanistan or some ████ like that like I could see I could see where the conflict is and why somebody get fired but for somebody to do if now if she was tick-tocking in the office talking about here's my dance and I make a hundred thousand dollars per year yeah

7:35 and then you're like the cool thing is that she wasn't trying to sue over being fired most people were just the first thing they're gonna do just I'm gonna sue you then but instead she went to her old job and said can I have my job back and they have rehired her practical and they're cool they know about her Tick Tock they don't give a ████ so yeah sometimes you just gotta find companies you align with too that align with you yeah that makes sense that's that's true too because company culture is different like you can have one that's like so relaxed like they just don't give a damn about anything and somehow they still stay alive like ours but then there's other ones that are like so strict that you feel like you're in North Korea or they don't understand social media perfectly so they're like oh she's the next Edward Snowden better fire her some companies will have you shut all your ████ down yeah you can only have LinkedIn and it's better be

8:25 professional and all your ████ I'm gonna you better shut all that ████ down you know yeah in a way like in today's world though I could understand like if I had a very expensive company I would probably be thinking that too in terms of like how quickly your company can go to the ████ by somebody's like bad post or by somebody like just doing social media badly representing it the wrong way God especially with cancer culture because the momentum moves against the big company right without real evidence at all exactly it doesn't have to go to court yeah you don't even have to be a big company as soon as like someone that's disgruntled says something they're like I knew it these ████ rap bastards you know and then people come after you that's true crazy like I'm assuming like as times keep changing what HR has to keep up with in terms of contracts and agreements that's crazy keep being

9:16 updated right yeah we're in a super interconnected world we see so like just on a total separate but similar type of thing there's this popular Tick Tock of this this lady she's like a nurse at a hospital and she comes out and it's just sad songs like and then the subtitles like I just lost a patient they died or something like that and that's that's a really bad taste she's acting it out she's acting it out you know that ████ how to ████ set up the ████ camera and then go out of the room and then open it and go oh that was fine that was tough Sarah McLaughlin songs on in the uh did you like wiping her brow she's like with the snake no she had this big ass like cute what's that huge like yellow snake oh the boa constrictor yeah and so it and so it uh it don't it died

10:07 it's so it's not funny but it's funny because she like set the camera up and was just like was like squirrel so then it quickly cuts to somebody like like obviously mocking her where he goes like this and you know yeah he's the kid tries to get it has a fake snake but then goes back and like fix the angles dude that's so crazy yeah some people just live and breathe social media though that they can do that and it doesn't even like register it doesn't register as that's weird you know like some people just they're so used to that yeah they're so used to covering every emotion they have that it's like that skipped over because what's more probably more important to them is the feedback that they get through Tick Tock in different positions right they're like oh man you're great you're so brave for doing that I can't believe thank you for being a healthcare hero oh yeah

10:57 thank you so much and then they film while they're in surgery and ████ yeah in their head they're just like man just forget about the haters yeah just keep doing what you're doing forget about the haters yeah I'm sure we're gonna see like different lawsuits and I'm sure the lawsuits have happened for like different things like this and things are just keep evolving yeah like it's just complex that's what makes me like I'm intrigued by uh the people that draft contracts for companies and they're like there's always got to change it you know yeah that's a lot of paperwork yeah I mean even that school's now all right like let's say like what about is there rules against kids doing tick tocks in class all kids got phones they could record their teachers you know like that's a whole different Dynamic that we didn't really have to deal with yeah yeah that's true I don't even know how they're like really like controlling the

11:47 phone situation the school nowadays because it must be crazy yeah everybody has a phone they all have social media even the teacher is probably scrolling while they're they're testing yeah that's kind of wild yo and it's not like you could just take phones away from kids right because they need them for different reasons or something unfortunately some goes down into school they need a phone to talk to their people you know what I mean like damn kids cycling team right like until like we're I'm riding with the kids and they're always joking about things like this one of the kids like yeah yeah in her test we had our phones on us and I was like scrolling through finding answers I'm like wow do people do that these days like that's the best way to cheat when I was a kid man I would make like a little like this like a little fortune cookie fortune put my whole cheat sheet notes on like a little Fortune oh yeah a Band-Aid and a Band-Aid and like kind of slide it in

12:37 like I'm trying to read this tiny handwriting and stuff and in the future just let some scroll on the phone while they're doing a test like that that's crazy what this the lengths we had to go through I know I used to write it like this inside of the label of the box so they don't see it till you drink and then you're like a good H2O what the ████ is so interesting about that water foreign [Music]

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