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> I (an American) was temporarily living in Argentina. They wanted to pay me in Argentina pesos Well .. yes? If you were Japanese in the US would you expect to

> I (an American) was temporarily living in Argentina. They wanted to pay me in Argentina pesos Well .. yes? If you were Japanese in the US would you expect to be paid in Yen? It’s not like you were working for them in the US and they sent you as an expat. I’m sure they would have switched you to USD had you moved to SF

clum 4y ago
I would expect my employer to work with me and compensate me adequately for my skill level and work done.
- namdnay 4y ago
  Agreed. Not based on my nationality
  - itake 4y ago
    My residence was the US. I will admit, me working in Argentina on a tourist visa is a grey/black area. My residence to both the US and Argentina government was the US. My visa only allowed me to stay ~3 months.
itake 4y ago
My Argentina developer friends don't even get paid in pesos. Why should I (a tourist) be paid in the local currency? I mentioned that Argentina has 20% inflation and locally businesses provide salary increases every 3-6 mo. They told me salaries are adjusted annually. I don't remember their exact response when I talked about me returning to my residence in San Francisco.
shrimpx 4y ago
The point about currency seems like a red herring, since it can be easily converted into USD, etc., but insisting on paying people salaries based on averages in their current location is pretty inflexible and remote-unfriendly IMO. People may move around and have financial obligations in multiple countries. E.g., if you have a mortgage and school loans in the US, and you want to live in Armenia for 1 year, your employer insisting that you take a 80% paycut due to "Armenian rates" is pretty ignorant and inflexible.
- itake 4y ago
  There were 2 problems: 1/ I was on a tourist visa. I did not have a bank account that could accept pesos. 2/ if I had an arg account, the gov limits how much can be sold for usd. [0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2019/10/28/argentinas-central-bank-cuts-dollar-purchase-limit https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2019/10/28/argentinas-...

clum 4y ago

I would expect my employer to work with me and compensate me adequately for my skill level and work done.

namdnay 4y ago
Agreed. Not based on my nationality
- itake 4y ago
  My residence was the US. I will admit, me working in Argentina on a tourist visa is a grey/black area. My residence to both the US and Argentina government was the US. My visa only allowed me to stay ~3 months.

itake 4y ago

My Argentina developer friends don't even get paid in pesos. Why should I (a tourist) be paid in the local currency? I mentioned that Argentina has 20% inflation and locally businesses provide salary increases every 3-6 mo. They told me salaries are adjusted annually. I don't remember their exact response when I talked about me returning to my residence in San Francisco.

shrimpx 4y ago

The point about currency seems like a red herring, since it can be easily converted into USD, etc., but insisting on paying people salaries based on averages in their current location is pretty inflexible and remote-unfriendly IMO. People may move around and have financial obligations in multiple countries. E.g., if you have a mortgage and school loans in the US, and you want to live in Armenia for 1 year, your employer insisting that you take a 80% paycut due to "Armenian rates" is pretty ignorant and inflexible.

itake 4y ago
There were 2 problems: 1/ I was on a tourist visa. I did not have a bank account that could accept pesos. 2/ if I had an arg account, the gov limits how much can be sold for usd. [0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2019/10/28/argentinas-central-bank-cuts-dollar-purchase-limit https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2019/10/28/argentinas-...