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How do you deal with someone who says they live in Manhattan, but actually lives in Mumbai?

by buff-a 15y ago

JonWood 15y ago
Fire them for lying when they provided an address in their employment contract. Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all?
- leon_ 15y ago
  So I'm about signing the contract. And I somehow know that when I write down Mumbai I will get $20k/yr and when I write down NYC I will get $100k/yr. Guess what I am going to do ... > Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all? Do you really want to work for someone discriminating based on location and not performance?
  - latch 15y ago
    No, you shouldn't go work for them, and people shouldn't hire you. The situation works to everyone's advantage.
- buff-a 15y ago
  Sorry. I meant someone who has a legal residence in Manhattan, pays US taxes, US social, but actually spends 350 days of the year "vacationing" in Mumbai, Buenos Aires, etc? And by "legal residence" I mean paying $100 a month to a mate to collect my mail and occasionally crash on his couch. Believe me, the IRS will back me up when I claim to be a US resident, as will New York State, and they would penalize balsamiq if balsamiq tried to claim otherwise. So what matters? Is it the law? Or is it the spirit? Is it the quality of work or the location where the person was at the time they did the work? What if the Mumbai resident comes to a conference in SF. Do you pay them SF rates for that week? What if they come for a month? Six months? This may seem like I'm looking for (what we call in video games) an exploit. I am of course. But so is balsamiq. It wants to have lower salary costs. It could pay everyone the same, no matter where they live. But it knows that Mumbai residents can't up and move to SF. So it claims to be fair (if they moved we would pay them more!) but the reality is that it knows they cant. I'm not saying I have a better idea. But I'm not the one blogging about it.

How do you deal with someone who says they live in Manhattan, but actually lives in Mumbai?

by buff-a 15y ago

How do you deal with someone who says they live in Manhattan, but actually lives in Mumbai?

Fire them for lying when they provided an address in their employment contract. Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all?

leon_ 15y ago
So I'm about signing the contract. And I somehow know that when I write down Mumbai I will get $20k/yr and when I write down NYC I will get $100k/yr. Guess what I am going to do ... > Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all? Do you really want to work for someone discriminating based on location and not performance?
- latch 15y ago
  No, you shouldn't go work for them, and people shouldn't hire you. The situation works to everyone's advantage.
buff-a 15y ago
Sorry. I meant someone who has a legal residence in Manhattan, pays US taxes, US social, but actually spends 350 days of the year "vacationing" in Mumbai, Buenos Aires, etc? And by "legal residence" I mean paying $100 a month to a mate to collect my mail and occasionally crash on his couch. Believe me, the IRS will back me up when I claim to be a US resident, as will New York State, and they would penalize balsamiq if balsamiq tried to claim otherwise. So what matters? Is it the law? Or is it the spirit? Is it the quality of work or the location where the person was at the time they did the work? What if the Mumbai resident comes to a conference in SF. Do you pay them SF rates for that week? What if they come for a month? Six months? This may seem like I'm looking for (what we call in video games) an exploit. I am of course. But so is balsamiq. It wants to have lower salary costs. It could pay everyone the same, no matter where they live. But it knows that Mumbai residents can't up and move to SF. So it claims to be fair (if they moved we would pay them more!) but the reality is that it knows they cant. I'm not saying I have a better idea. But I'm not the one blogging about it.