How To Alienate Your Employees

Dr Stuart Woolley
4 min readJan 10, 2024

A short missive on the efforts of corporate modus operandi when it comes to salary related deflection techniques.

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It’s well known in the Grand Game of Software Engineering that there’s nothing as attractive as a decent salary, closely followed by actually useful benefits such as the ability to remote work, the provision of private health care, and company incentivised pension contributions.

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Dr Stuart Woolley

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, X, and Overwatch fan.