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You can definitely see this in the workplace, where people are wasting time doing admin tasks that someone on a 1/3 of the salary could have done. Often they ar

by rythie 15y ago

You can definitely see this in the workplace, where people are wasting time doing admin tasks that someone on a 1/3 of the salary could have done. Often they are slower at it too, due to less practice/interest. Usually this is caused by job cuts, where an increase in low level employees could actually make the highly paid more productive.

tomjen3 15y ago
Yeah, that is the point I never really understood. If you get people to fill up their own gas, that is one thing since it makes sense from a business perspective. But why have a $200 lawyer do admin work? That makes no sense whatsoever.
- lsc 15y ago
  >Yeah, that is the point I never really understood. If you get people to fill up their own gas, that is one thing since it makes sense from a business perspective. More importantly, a professional can't fill the tank any faster than I can, and on modern cars, it's less important to check the oil every fill-up. (Still a good idea, but it's not as important as it used to be.) So from my perspective, why should I pay extra to have someone else do the task, no matter what the wage differential? So yeah, I think self-service gas stations make sense, and self-service groceries make more sense than making people wait in line for too few checkers (though, I think if you have sufficient checkers, professional checkers make more sense. A professional is a /lot/ faster at that job than I am) Yeah, though 'support staff' I think, is pretty important, and it's one of the major reasons why I like having my own company rather than working for someone else. Nobody has support staff for SysAdmins, and yeah, while I recognize the need for bureaucracy and tight bookkeeping, I don't enjoy dealing with those things and I'm not very good at it. It's really nice to hand a wad of receipts to someone else and say "yeah, this was for the conference last week" and have them handle the paperwork.

by rythie 15y ago

tomjen3 15y ago

Yeah, that is the point I never really understood. If you get people to fill up their own gas, that is one thing since it makes sense from a business perspective. But why have a $200 lawyer do admin work? That makes no sense whatsoever.

lsc 15y ago
>Yeah, that is the point I never really understood. If you get people to fill up their own gas, that is one thing since it makes sense from a business perspective. More importantly, a professional can't fill the tank any faster than I can, and on modern cars, it's less important to check the oil every fill-up. (Still a good idea, but it's not as important as it used to be.) So from my perspective, why should I pay extra to have someone else do the task, no matter what the wage differential? So yeah, I think self-service gas stations make sense, and self-service groceries make more sense than making people wait in line for too few checkers (though, I think if you have sufficient checkers, professional checkers make more sense. A professional is a /lot/ faster at that job than I am) Yeah, though 'support staff' I think, is pretty important, and it's one of the major reasons why I like having my own company rather than working for someone else. Nobody has support staff for SysAdmins, and yeah, while I recognize the need for bureaucracy and tight bookkeeping, I don't enjoy dealing with those things and I'm not very good at it. It's really nice to hand a wad of receipts to someone else and say "yeah, this was for the conference last week" and have them handle the paperwork.