Both Azure and GCE are competitors, both have pretty feature rich clouds. They may not have feature parity but I'm guessing what they do have fits 70-80% of peoples needs (Compute, Database, Storage, DNS, Load Balancing).
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You comparison is disingenuous.
I guess it depends on why you are angry and punched that person in the face, did they spit on you, hit your wife, etc? Your analogy here isn't very good.
It isn't an employees job to understand what every other employee does and honestly management trying to justify every salary to every other employee would be a bit ridiculous. Maybe Jeff (or lets say Sarah) has a good salary because they bring in 10x the business as the next best sales person. That is easily quantifiable but lets say Jeff/Sarah brings in only the average income but you can see the growth with their customers. That isn't easily quantifiable and honestly doesn't need to be broadcasted to the whole employee base (especially since employees leave and go to other competitors and would then have a good list to work off of).
Employees routinely keep information confidential from each other because it makes sense to do so. This isn't a bad thing like you make it out to be, companies shouldn't be some open society where everyone gets to know each others business.
As a normal worker of course I hope they all pay us great salaries and equal pay for equal work but part of my "job" in the negotiating process is to make sure that happens.
1. They want to get top talent at a cheap price, this is understandable because lets face it all of us want to get the best deal they can.
2. They want to avoid a hostile work environment where people are pissed off because they don't feel Jeff in sales should earn so much.
Those are the only two reasons I can think of that can be legitimate.
I say we change the name to "self pride" days/parades and everyone can be happy about themselves and it can be inclusive to every group then.
Serious question here. If being gay is not a choice but a preference you have at birth why do we need pride and parades? I mean it's not like you did anything or chose to be that way, you just kind of are.
As a person who supports equality, no matter race, sex, religion, etc. this has always perplexed me.
For this case sometimes ISPs choose to trust other ISPs and their processes. Rather than create duplication of effort/work they say "hey we know you are good and you have the processes in place" which is sort of what the internet was built on. So Level3 trusted this ISP to filter their routes and they didn't, lesson learned. Not everything needs to go through duplicate work/100 checks and balances before it gets done. Yes there are minimum things Level3 could have done better but seriously you don't know the situation, the politics or the process. Good article without context.