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Sounds like Dave enjoyed having the entire company as hostage. Pretty good for getting paid I guess but not someone I would want to work with.
by hcarvalhoalves 7y ago
Sounds like Dave enjoyed having the entire company as hostage. Pretty good for getting paid I guess but not someone I would want to work with.
- longstaff2009 7y agoI suspect that Dave's pay was not proportionate to his skills
- tosser0001 7y agoI suspect that Dave doesn't actually exist. Stories this well-calibrated to make a specific point I think are generally fabricated from whole cloth.
- longstaff2009 7y agoAs the author I probably can't change your mind without revealing his real identity, but i'm glad you thought the writing was well calibrated :) so thanks I guess?
- hsk823 7y agoI suspect that you haven't met your own "Dave" then. Fuck you pay me is dramatic, but certainly in lots of orgs, especially smaller orgs, people like "Dave" exist, are generally not making what they could somewhere else, has all the tribal knowledge of everything the company does in his head, the knowledge is complex enough that simply reading documentation will not help fix the problems he's fixing.
- writepub 7y agoOR - tech skills are only part of the salary you get. Another is being able to work well with a team. If Dave wasn't being paid proportionately, why didn't he just get another job? Maybe, just maybe, he SUCKED at working well in teams. Which means - the free market placed him in a niche position where the team tolerated his idiosyncrasies for good tech skills, and his salary reflected that
- cbm-vic-20 7y agoI suspect that Dave's pay was not proportionate to his value to the company.
- firstplacelast 7y agoSounds like a fantastic businessman. My CEO is always talking about how to corner the market and (without disclosing what we do) make it so some industries have to use our product if they want regulatory approval. Think like your masters.
- j_b_s 7y agoDon't hate the player...Game on!
- chatmasta 7y agoSounds like the company didn't pay Dave, so why should Dave do work for the company?
- detaro 7y agoIf you fail to pay your employees and not even have any urgency in fixing it (if "it'll be in your next paycheck" is an accurate quote), it's only fair if employees don't have any urgency in helping you. If my employer fails to pay on time, I expect that to be their top priority everyone involved goes crazy about.