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wake me up when the people cleaning the office's toilet bowls are also included in this PR announcement.
by ggg2 7y ago
wake me up when the people cleaning the office's toilet bowls are also included in this PR announcement.
- myspy 7y agoA remote company has no office, hasn't it?
- vectorEQ 7y agousually that's external companies....
- Dobbs 7y agoThat’s the point of the statement.
- FluffyKitty 7y agoWhile it is probably nigh impossible to find a facilities company that would pay the staff that much, I don't think simply saying it's another company and therefore out of their hands is a valid argument. You could've said the same about Nike in relation to the factories that used to supply them and use child labour.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoThe post does say that this is the minimum regardless of position, not just developer salary. Of course the cleaners could be (and more often than not are) outside contractors.
- prepend 7y agoStep 1) outsource low paying positions to temp/service companies. Step 2) pay all employees at least $70k. This is a tough problem to solve but nice they are trying. Paying a receptionist or cleaning person $70k doesn’t make much sense because it’s way above market rate. But outsourcing to a company paying $11/hour doesn’t fit into the “everybody makes a good amount” message.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoI don't know why you were down-voted. Practically every company does 1 these days. I'd have more respect for a company that says "we pay everyone at least 40k" and doesn't outsource the janitor.
- mcv 7y agoOr you could get the best receptionist and cleaner in the world.
- zip1234 7y agoIf you have one office location that takes a crew one or two hours to clean per week, why would you have someone on staff to do that?
- jolfdb 7y agoThat's completely irrelevant or disingenuous. Obviously you can prorate an annual wage to Basecamp's advertised hours per year of work.
- jolfdb 7y agoIt's irrelevant if market rate is below what you pay, as long as you can afford it; employees won't complain and leave for being overpaid. The Google masseuse got $millions (in the IPO).
- scarface74 7y agoI would think that most small companies don’t own their own office and are renting space in a building where the building owners contract out cleaning for all of the tenants.
- qxcbr 7y agoPeople are paid depending on their worth.
- prepend 7y agoI think people are paid based on supply and demand. I don’t think it’s accurate to say this is the person’s worth as it’s easily confused with other factors.
- mcv 7y ago> I think people are paid based on supply and demand. Not even that. People are largely paid based on the power (real or perceived) that they have.
- ceejayoz 7y agoSpending a day employed at any Fortune 500 company should disabuse you of this notion, in both directions.