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If you love your job, you could be getting paid less. Clearly you are taking advantage of your employer. If you hate your job, clearly you've stayed because t
by LanceH 7y ago
If you love your job, you could be getting paid less. Clearly you are taking advantage of your employer.
If you hate your job, clearly you've stayed because they are offering more than any place that is better and you're taking advantage of your employer.
- thfuran 7y agoI'll have to apologize and return all this money.
- onemoresoop 7y agoIf you hate your job you're automatically paying yourself less in stress offset. IMO stress and meaninglessness at work is not worth any $ at all
- LanceH 7y agoThe parent comment to mine was facetiously showing how the employer is always taking advantage of the employee. I'm showing that it's "clearly" the other way around. It's almost like it is an exchange of services and goods negotiated along a variety of criteria.
- onemoresoop 7y agoDepending on how you look at it, the employer is and isn't taking advantage of the employee, or the reverse, the employee taking advantage of the employer. But thinking too much about this is not healthy, it's good to just be aware of it. Thinking too much may make you jump ship and move around to other companies and potentially make more money but in the long run, i don't think this necessarily translates into happiness, productivity, etc.. The trick is to find the balance.
- rexpop 7y agoIf you love your job, but hate your politicians, and your company's investors are laundering their profits through PACs to purchase said politicians, then your employer is—perhaps not so clearly—taking advantage of you. And you should be paid more. Have you ever counted out how much political money comes out of your paycheck before it reaches your house?
- sokoloff 7y agoTaxes, FICA, health insurance and other benefits paid on my behalf come out of my paycheck. What any investors or executives do with money that was never mine (aka “their profits”) is not “coming out of my paycheck.”
- rexpop 7y ago> money that was never mine is not “coming out of my paycheck.” That's a funny way of looking at it. All value originates in the labor of people like you and me. It's only an accounting trick that any of it appears to end up in others' hands.
- sokoloff 7y agoIMO, it's a more funny way of looking at it to think that money that no one ever agreed to pay me when I freely negotiated for my salary was somehow originally "mine".
- rexpop 7y agoIt's a well-known fact that most people under-negotiate.
- benchaney 7y agoThat is a bizzare POV. Labor has no inherent value on its own, it is only valuable in contexts when it can be used to benefit others. Constructing those contexts often requires capital expenditure. Labor believing that capital is unnecessary makes about as much sense as sales believing engineering is unnecessary (because we bring in all the money) or vice versa.