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your employees don't even realize they're being ripped off. Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires there to be no other choice. You
by jasonkester 10y ago
your employees don't even realize they're being ripped off.
Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires there to be no other choice. Your car has broken down in the desert and the single mechanic within 100 miles can charge you what he wants.
In that light, it is not possible for an engineer contemplating accepting a job offer from Facebook to be "ripped off". He's in intelligent businessperson negotiating a deal with a ton of other options available. They can't force him to do anything, and if he sees an open plan office as a downside, he can negotiate compensation in other forms.
Personally, I'm happy to work in any environment you put me in. Stick me in the swimming pool and feed me margaritas all day if you think it helps your corporate culture. I'll assume you've done the math and factored in the drop in productivity, so I won't feel bad to watch it happen.
That's the nice thing about business. You can assume the other side of the table is also behaving rationally, and let him shoot himself in the foot if he pleases.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires there to be no other choice. Your car has broken down in the desert and the single mechanic within 100 miles can charge you what he wants. That doesn't reflect any usage of "ripped off" that I've ever heard. If I buy a doodad from one of three sidewalk stalls all next to each other, I pay $40, and any of them would have sold it to me for $5, it would be conventional to say I got ripped off. Or, if I buy a dowsing rod advertised at a nonnegotiable price, it would still be conventional to say I got ripped off, because there's no such thing as a dowsing rod. "Ripped off" means you paid more for something than it was worth. The lone mechanic in the desert isn't doing that; his services really are that valuable.
- xiaoma 10y ago>>your employees don't even realize they're being ripped off. >Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires... >It is not possible for an engineer contemplating accepting a job offer from Facebook to be "ripped off". He's in intelligent businessperson For someone telling people to be careful with their terminology, the word "businessperson" sure is an odd way to describe a W2 employee taking on a full time job.
- throwanem 10y agoThe regulatory framework around it doesn't change the fact that it's a negotiated sale of labor.
- xiaoma 10y agoIf you redefine the word "businessperson" to include everyone who has ever taken or pursued work as an employee, the meaning is both at odds with common English usage and so broad as to be nearly meaningless.