Gravity payments facing trouble after 70,000 salary floor is implemented

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**Frazzled**

LordofHats wrote:
Hordini wrote:
I'm pretty sure quitting your job because someone else, who you already make way more more money than (if we're talking about the skilled vs the non-skilled worker in this case), got a raise, is a pretty golden example of being butthurt.

I prefer to call it 'entitlement'. That's the buzzword we use right? Meaning "lazy person who wants more money."

Its also means their salaries were underserved as they could find new positions. less butthurt and more underpaid.

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dogma wrote:
Frazzled wrote:

Its also means their salaries were underserved as they could find new positions. less butthurt and more underpaid.

Or they willingly took a pay cut in order to leave the company. Considering sentiments such as this...

Mr. Moran also fretted that the extra money could over time become too enticing to give up, keeping him from his primary goal of further developing his web skills and moving to a digital company.

...it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Incidentally, if his primary goals are really further developing his web skills and moving to a digital company, earning more money shouldn't be an issue.

This is true, but then he would have left anyway. However, I take your point.

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And if they were getting with a bonus plan, their bonus plan just went in the toilet.

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Its not?

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Silent Puffin? wrote:
djones520 wrote:
It's not just about hard work in your job right now.

Working 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week washing dishes is far harder than studying for a degree.

I don't care about the money, its nice but once over a certain point it becomes irrelevant; its job satisfaction that interests me.

Don't forget the $100,000 in school loans you are paying off.

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Silent Puffin? wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Silent Puffin? wrote:
djones520 wrote:
It's not just about hard work in your job right now.

Working 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week washing dishes is far harder than studying for a degree.

I don't care about the money, its nice but once over a certain point it becomes irrelevant; its job satisfaction that interests me.

Don't forget the $100,000 in school loans you are paying off.

I already paid mine off.

Good for you (I did too-best thing!) . Now how do you feel about your loans if someone who didn't got paid just a hair less than you?

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Evidently multiple employees disagreed with your statement.

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d-usa wrote:
That doesn't make it any less of a stupid argument though.

Do you get a raise just because your boss gets a raise? So why should you make more just because someone below you got a raise?

Because my skills and experience are better.
You're ignoring human nature completely. You'd be ok if the janitors in your org were making the same as you?

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dogma wrote:
Frazzled wrote:

You're ignoring human nature completely. You'd be ok if the janitors in your org were making the same as you?

If my organization employed janitors and there was one who made as much as me, I would have to tip my hat to him for his shrewdness while suspecting that The Garbageman found a way to truly break the 4th wall.

But in all seriousness, I wouldn't care. My ego isn't so fragile as to require the constant reassurance provided by earning more money than someone else.

Your pocket book would care. You children would care. You wife would care (unless she left you for the janitor...

)

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Dreadwinter wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
Sure, but I can hire anyone to wash dishes. I can't hire just anyone to manage the business.

That makes the dishwasher much less valuable, and thus less deserving of higher pay.

Why not? A lot of people out there with management experience looking for jobs.

Because we have an open border and I have hard working illegal immigrants who will take less for the "job an American wouldn't do." Not so much for restaurant managers.

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Why, because I wouldn't be spending as much time with them? Why do you assume that working in a skilled position necessarily involves working longer hours?

They would care if you're getting less money than you could be.

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MrDwhitey wrote:
Or they wouldn't.

Oh yea.

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Silent Puffin? wrote:
Frazzled wrote:

They would care if you're getting less money than you could be.

In which case I would be forced to disown the grasping little creature.

Respect! "you kids! SHUDUPAYOFACE!" I like it.

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Grey Templar wrote:
Arguments of principle. If your hard work isn't being appropriately rewarded you might take a job somewhere else that will.

That is a very human reason indeed.