Take coworkers' salaries, for instance. We don't know them, and we don't want to know them. That's the sort of knowledge that makes no one happy. Whatever you're making isn't enough. Whatever that schmuck two cubicles away earns is way too much.
Ignorance sometimes is bliss .
That's one of about 11 million reasons we're glad we don't work for the Dallas school district. In the past, if you were a typical DISD worker, such speculation would be confined to the realm of mystery and gossip unless you filed a public information request, in which case, let's face it, you're a jerk. But no longer. The wall of secrecy has fallen. For this we can thank Allen Gwinn , one of several prolific Internet gadflies in Dallas skilled in the art of guerrilla reporting.