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I was once asked, during the original dot-com crash many moons ago, to take a pay cut. I replied, essentially, that this was fine by me, as long as I could cut
by teddyh 4y ago
I was once asked, during the original dot-com crash many moons ago, to take a pay cut. I replied, essentially, that this was fine by me, as long as I could cut my weekly hours proportionally (I was working full time). I never heard anything more about it, and my pay was not cut, nor was I asked to reduce my hours. This was a small company, and at the same time, other people at the company were being let go.
- sys_64738 4y agoThis is the way to go.
- folivore 4y agoHmm. Where did that end up? Did the pay cuts alleviate over time or did those people get laid off when the company did worse?
- teddyh 4y agoThe company was entirely focused at what turned out to be a technological dead end, so the business did not improve much in the short term. I don’t know what happened much later, though, as I later quit that job for unrelated reasons, but the company seems to still exist, and they seem to have pivoted to other products.