Re:Stripe Employees Who Relocate to Get $20k Bonus and a Pay...
by s1artibartfast on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:01PM
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I'm not sure what exactly you are critiquing here.
>Doesn't this just make it a little too obvious that the company is more interested in paying you as little as they can get away with rather than paying you for the value you bring. You are payed your replacement cost. If you bring more value, you are harder to replace. It has nothing to do with total value, if this was the case, no company would ever make a profit.
Is there anyone who thinks that a company pays employees $1 more than they have to? I haven't met anyone who thought otherwise. Afterall, they aren't a charity.
>The employee equivalent of this is accepting the wage they're offering and then optimizing to do as little work of value to the company as possible
I also haven't met anyone who goes above and beyond out of some sense charity. I know people who work hard because they enjoy their work, or think they will get more pay, but not simply for the sake of the company value.
>Doesn't this just make it a little too obvious that the company is more interested in paying you as little as they can get away with rather than paying you for the value you bring. You are payed your replacement cost. If you bring more value, you are harder to replace. It has nothing to do with total value, if this was the case, no company would ever make a profit.
Is there anyone who thinks that a company pays employees $1 more than they have to? I haven't met anyone who thought otherwise. Afterall, they aren't a charity.
>The employee equivalent of this is accepting the wage they're offering and then optimizing to do as little work of value to the company as possible
I also haven't met anyone who goes above and beyond out of some sense charity. I know people who work hard because they enjoy their work, or think they will get more pay, but not simply for the sake of the company value.