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This is a wonderful story. A management clusterfudge all the way. I'm confused by him saying that you don't get commissions until hitting a threshold that he
by danielweber 12y ago
This is a wonderful story. A management clusterfudge all the way.
I'm confused by him saying that you don't get commissions until hitting a threshold that he "barely" hit once, and then a paragraph later he talks about someone returning phones that got him a $40 commission (so he now loses that commission).
- HCIdivision17 12y agoIt is actually likely as bad as you'd imagine. Think about how you could rationalize paying minimum wage, but then docking the pay. Give up? Read the comment by `pud in another thread a couple months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665082 The shorter seems to be that they were always on commision, with a default of minimum wage. Should a return occur, the commision would be removed, even if that dropped them below minimum wage. EDIT: Note further in the thread that a Canadian worker always got minimum wage. So it's possible the sleaze varied by region.
- pjc50 12y agoIn countries with working legal systems, minimum wage means what it says, so removing the commission to drop pay below minimum wage levels would be illegal, and likely to be enforced.
- knd775 12y agoI think that they got a sales commission for everything sold after a threshold, but they always got a commission for mobile phones in particular (likely through the carrier).