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> Here's the other bottom line: A company wants to use your industry and creativity to make more money than it will give to you. You don't owe the company jack.
by jimmy1 8y ago
> Here's the other bottom line: A company wants to use your industry and creativity to make more money than it will give to you. You don't owe the company jack. shit.
Unfortunately, unless the sides are favored to the labor market (in our cases it is not, and even if it was, there is always outsourcing), this equation is not equal.
Both are true, but it is an extremely unbalanced equation. At the end of the day, the company has the money and you have the skills. Unfortunately only one of those helps you pay the bills -- unless you can figure out a way to pay your rent in exchange for your skills.
- sanderjd 8y agoThis is not true for the industry we're talking about (or at least not as true as you seem to think). It really is in companies' best interest to be attractive to skilled workers in this industry and there really is a chance they will find themselves struggling if they get the wrong reputation. It seems (to me) like this is a major undercurrent in IBM's struggles, for instance (and outsourcing has not been a silver bullet). Thinking the balance is more skewed than it actually is is one of the things that skews the balance.