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Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative? As someone who had to do
by pryelluw 5y ago
Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative?
As someone who had to do similar work for years the answer is that there were no alternatives.
No one takes a shitty job on purpose.
- phreack 5y agoI thought so as well, but then I started offering jobs to people I knew hated their jobs and also worked unpaid overtime constantly, with the smallest salaries. But for some reason, when offered a 6x salary freelancing, for less hours, with guidance, and the road paved as much as possible, everyone refuses. Turns out there are people who take shitty jobs on purpose, out of a sense of... I don't know, fear, embarrassment, impostor syndrome, or a combination of them. *This is not in the US.
- ipaddr 5y agoThey want something stable. Freelancing is not.
- diordiderot 5y agoKids, car, rent, healthcare = Need something stable
- mertd 5y agoMaybe they think the offer is too good to be true. In some countries it is default to assume everyone is out to scam you until proven otherwise.
- pryelluw 5y agoFreelancing is how I broke out of the shit job loop. But freelancing is not widely available and I consider myself extremely lucky and blessed to have been able to do it.
- heavyset_go 5y agoHow many of these people had all of the necessary funds to fall back on should their foray into freelancing not go as planned?
- phreack 5y agoReplying here to sibling posts' concerns as well. All of them in this case did, with no families or major expenses to support, and not a weird scam or pyramid scheme, just standard contract development work where in two or three contractually secured months they'd make what they currently do in over a year. The reason is basically geographical, working for clients abroad is just ridiculously more profitable (think Venezuela). The risk in this case is extremely low, I wasn't looking for referrals either (I'd offered to give it to them if there were any), just genuinely wanted my friends to earn more and work less.
- theshrike79 5y agoIt's a self-feeding cycle. First you need work two 10 hour shifts a day, 7 days a week to survive. Then you can't even study, because you can't afford it. This is why proper unemployment and free schools (evil SOCIALISM) comes in to play. People don't need to work themselves to death just to survive, there are safety nets you can fall back on. (Yes there are holes in said nets, but it's better than the gaping black hole the US has).
- treis 5y agoThat then raises the question of why they're paying time and a half to work their employees to death.
- Tepix 5y agoBecause they can get away with it and because of greed.
- treis 5y agoHow would greed lead them to paying 40+ hours of time and a half OT instead of hiring another worker?
- Tarucho 5y agoCompanies tend to work (as we humans do) under the principle of least effort. More employees means more HR work, more administrative work, more legal work, more work in general, and unless the benefits of hiring more people are great, they will just abuse the employees at hand.
- raydev 5y agoBecause it's cheaper to have fewer employees.
- massysett 5y agoOvertime may be cheaper than hiring another worker because then there are healthcare benefits and pension for one more head.
- Bradlinc 5y agoDoes that equate to 50% of the base hourly pay?
- s1artibartfast 5y agoProbably more. At 20/hr, salary is 40k per year. At my workplace employee overhead is >100k on top of salary, so 20k overhead seems verry low