[ale] OT: it is only me or ... ?

[Wolf Halton]

I am also in favor of transparent salary rubrics.
If you have this much time in grade,
and have those skills, you can make what that guy makes.  Include attitude
in the mix.  If one person has more enthusiasm they should make more.  It
will be obvious to the people who are just drawing a check that the
enthusiastic person makes more because they are more committed, or "They
are a brown-nosing poser." as the uncommitted people would say. :-)

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> That reminds me of the time I was doing budgets with  an assistant
> department head of another department.  He was over a group of employees
> who got significant portions of their pay from gratuities.   As we're doing
> the payroll schedule he tells me it must be wrong because it had several of
> them making more overall than him.   I laughed at him and said "Welcome to
> middle management".
>
> He actually later stepped down from his job to become one of those
> employees because he decided the money was more important than the
> management "prestige".     At that he was smarter than me - I wasn't smart
> enough to get out of management until a couple of years later.   I took a
> significant pay cut to transition to full time IT but within a few years
> was making more and was much happier.   These days I equate climbing the
> corporate ladder to Road Runner cartoons wherein the Wile E. Coyote is
> rapidly climbing up a ladder even though the ladder has already fallen off
> the top of a cliff.  Eventually you're going hit bottom no matter how far
> up you think you got.
>
>
>
> "True story. When I was 28 I quit a very exploitative corporate job where
> my boss was this 65 year old Depression-Era fossil who believed employees
> should be loyal and grateful. A few months after quitting, on the bus, I
> ran into the assistant accountant for the old company, and we discussed my
> old boss. She told me his salary: it was 18% more than mine had been. He
> was the regional sales manager: 2 levels above me.
> He'd put in 45 years for the company. And all he had to show for it was
> 18% more than I was getting. If I'd known the company was that ungrateful
> to their hard-working employees, I'd have quit years earlier.
> SteveT"
>
>
>
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