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I don’t feel underpaid. But I do feel undervalued. I have bemusedly imagined a future discussion where when a prospective employer asks what salary I’m hoping
by travisgriggs 4y ago
I don’t feel underpaid. But I do feel undervalued.
I have bemusedly imagined a future discussion where when a prospective employer asks what salary I’m hoping to make I say the following:
“We’ll, that’s an interesting question. I want you to pay me X or 1.2X. If you’ll point me towards value and let me contribute towards that, and act like you trust me and include me in decision making processes, in short some form of equanimity, I’ll do this job excitedly for X. But if you’re going to treat me like a horse, micromanage me, overprocess me, basically devalue me, then that is going to cost you an extra 20%.”
- mgkimsal 4y agomeh... they'll pay you X then bring you in to decision making meetings where decisions are already made, but you get to decide which hours of unpaid overtime you'll work to implement their decisions in the order they demand ("we've already approved this quarter's goals!"). But hey, you were involved in the decision making process, right? You and everyone else gets to decide which weekends you'll work, or which quality corners you'll cut, and which tests you'll skip, which documentation you'll avoid, which security steps you'll ignore, etc. Just don't bother the folks above you with any of those details.