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.
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.
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.
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?
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.