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It’s pretty twisted. I went to open an office in a different country and help the engineers there. The country had an exchange rate favorable to the usd and a m
by iterateoften 2y ago
It’s pretty twisted. I went to open an office in a different country and help the engineers there. The country had an exchange rate favorable to the usd and a much lower cost of living on the low end, but if you wanted to live like I did back in California the cost was almost comparable. Maybe I was saving like $1k a month.
But the ceo and management threw a fit that I was “living like a king” because I wasn’t living in squalor.
I just was renting a decent apartment in a decent neighborhood. My apartment was still not as nice as my place back in the bay if I count all the furniture, amenities, etc
Meanwhile the ceo back in San Francisco was the one living like a king with multiple assistants, private chefs, and chauffeurs.
They were enraged that my life was too good for their standards while paying me the exact same as they had been.
- whatshisface 2y agoIt's funny that they said that, because in other industries expats often live like actual kings (okay, not kings but at least US ambassadors.)