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Let's say you get this offer with a yearly salary of $104,350. With 2087 hours as the full-time expectation that would be $50 an hour. However since they want
by sosuke 5y ago
Let's say you get this offer with a yearly salary of $104,350. With 2087 hours as the full-time expectation that would be $50 an hour.
However since they want to own all of your creations that might happen while not at work I wonder if they would accept a counter offer. Would you accept this counter offer?
At $50 an hour, 8760 hours in the year, my expected full-time salary would be $438,000. Before you suggest I cut out sleep time what if the idea or solution comes to me in a dream?
I think that is a good compromise. I have the expectation of being "in office" 2087 hours out of the year while also collecting on all of the chance ideas that happen the rest of the time.
Edit: I like this idea. A clause. I collect $104,350 a year. But if Amazon claims ownership over a personal project I create then the rest of the hours uncollected over my employment are owed retroactively. So I work there for 5 years before I have a successful personal project that Amazon wants. They then owe me $1,668,250. Pennies to them but a good chunk of change to me.
- ctvo 5y agoAre you writing fan fiction? Not sure I follow.
- sosuke 5y agoMore of a thought experiment. What would satisfy me to accept an agreement where every thought I have while employed is owned by my employer. Trying to come up with some compromise that would justify them giving a yearly full-time salary (2087 hours) while at the same time they expect to cash in on all of my non-work hours.
- jbay808 5y agoGood luck with your negotiations.
- sosuke 5y agoYes it quite the fantasy but also feels reasonable to me. I don't think an employer would feel the same way.
- maerF0x0 5y agoThis is part of why engineers should so much now. We realize that 40 hrs a week is a joke, plus we'll be on call, and there will be maybe 21 days in a year where one can truly be fully off (and those 21 days will make the prior and subsequent week or two more intense anyways)... So that's why engineers should demand $100 an hour times 3000 hours. Cause that's the actual math, not the lie of WLB that never happens.
- oh_sigh 5y agoBasically no place in the US is going to let you rewrite terms of their employment contract.