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On Topic: This seems very shady on behalf of her manager... I've never heard of the peer bonuses or read the fine print of how they work so I can't comment beyond my feeling that what happened to Eric doesn't seem right at all.

Off Topic: Is this style of prose common? I feel the proper medium for this post would be a blog rather than ~20 individual tweets.

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To put this in perspective for you:

Getting peer bonuses for doing things others find funny, amusing, whatever, is not hard.

I once received 12 peer bonus nominations for flaming a noogler acting very entitled on an internal mailing list.

My manager approved the best one, which said something like "Dan is very good at instilling culture into our newer Googlers"

The rest were rejected. While getting one or two peer bonuses for something is generally okay, approving 12 would likely not make sense from a manager perspective when their are other recognition/bonus mechanisms that fit better for that kind of thing.

Well that makes more sense. If the convention is only one per event or time period I can see how this would happen. Pretty interesting program. I like it. Is there a limit to how many one person can give in a given time period or is the limit more on receipt?

Due to abuse, there are now limits. Generally, you can give X a quarter, and you can nominate the same person for a peer bonus only once every X months.

Off Topic: Is this style of prose common?

I believe it's called a "tweetstorm"; there's a site dedicated to help with making them: http://tweetstorm.io/

I don't think she meant to write a post; just shared thoughts over time with friends / followers.

"Fuck you! Now give me my bonus". Why should somebody who you call an asshole in public be obliged to give you a goodwill bonus?

This entire set of tweets is talking of an incident that did not happen recently. There's no record of her calling her manager an asshole in public while she was working there.

Well by exposing your manager you are essentially calling her an asshole (lets assume the manager is female, why not).

Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that the person tweeting no longer works at that company anyway, having changed employers a while ago.

It's not about the tweets, it's about publishing the Excel sheet of salaries. That's bound to piss off her employer, so why should they give her a bonus?

She specifically says that she only told friends about the bonuses being withheld

Huh, she published an excel sheet of salaries, claiming to expose injustice. That's saying "fuck you" to her managers, and to Google.

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