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Pretty sure you employer expects you to be making them money with your time. At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your comp
by Frost1x 7y ago
Pretty sure you employer expects you to be making them money with your time. At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your compensation.
It's funny how culturally, we paint business practices of optimizing profit as picturesque but paint labor optimizing their profit as a sin.
It's really all a matter of perspective and somewhere, most the labor force was convinced to take the capital owners perspective.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 7y agoThis is because if everyone does very little the company goes bust and we are all out of work. Organised labour movements are supposed to be about what is fair. A fair wage for fair safe work.
- Frost1x 7y agoI agree completely, as with most things in life, there's a healthy balance somewhere in between. One extreme or the other tend to be counterproductive to everyone involved. Theres a reasonable amount of productivity that's respectable with a reasonable compensation that considers everyone's situation. Unfortunately, the economic system we've adopted tends to work quite well at finding extremes and many of the corrective measures to flatten these out are failing more and more.
- thebean11 7y ago> At the same time, you should be expecting to do as little as possible for your compensation. As little as possible within some allotted time, or spending as little time as possible? The first one sounds miserable.
- Frost1x 7y agoDepends on the type of work. If time makes sense, then sure. If other personal resources make more sense (your car/fuel, building materials you obtain, existing code bases you already created, etc.). You should be optimizing for yourself.
- 52-6F-62 7y ago> but paint labor optimizing their profit as a sin. This gets a real ugly name applied to it as well, the label of "time thief". How dark is that?