Re:Thank You MDN
by The_Colonel on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:41AM
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> I'm certainly not getting paid what she is, but she isn't getting paid what she could get elsewhere.
Sure, but then what happens if she leaves due to small compensation (or for any other reason)?
To me it looks like "not much". She doesn't exactly have some stellar track record in the past few years.
Re:Thank You MDN
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:45AM
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I think you're probably right about the "not much" but I'm not sure if the lack of success for Mozilla is not so much due to incompetence of the management as it is to the much stronger position of Google; some battles cannot be managed to win, only managed to decrease the loss.
I would agree up to perhaps £100k (or perhaps £150k in an expensive place like SF) but beyond that I think there are very diminishing returns to wealth and other things, like vision/purpose and relationships dominate decision-making. (Well obviously not for everyone, but for a lot of people.)
If someone came along and offered me significantly more money than I make now I would take it, despite liking my current position well enough. My family would also want me to take it. And I believe that basically most of the people here complaining about her would do the same - move to a new job if they got offered more, not want to get a pay cut to stay in the job they are at.
I certainly wouldn't work most places for 5 times less than I make now, and if I did it would be because I expected to recoup that loss somehow.
She stated what is the normal way for most people - to try to maximize their gains - at a time when it is somewhat gauche to state that.