re: The Dark Downside Of The Work-From-Home Trend

Posted on 9/16/20 at 11:19 pm to Klark Kent

Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 9/16/20 at 11:19 pm to Klark Kent

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And despite our political differences I agree completely with Kork’s positions in this thread.

I'm pretty level-headed when I'm not stirring shite.

I think this whole story is a non-issue, really. The market will work itself out, as it tends to do. This shift to WFH for a lot of jobs is going to level out salaries across the country, no doubt.

All I'm saying is it's piss-poor company policy to try to leverage an individual employee's personal choices, expenses, and living arrangements to pay them less than another employee who provides the same value to the business but who makes arguably worse life choices. Might as well issue a Wage Slave Handbook to your employees.

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Posted by Korkstand

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 9/16/20 at 11:37 pm to Korkstand

Also this thread reminds me of the guy who outsourced his own programming job to China. He was getting paid about $300k, and he paid some Chinese dude $50k to do all his work. He always got good quarterly reviews.

And they fired this genius!

US Software Developer Caught Outsourcing His Job to China

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"a typical 'work day'" for the employee looked like the following:

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch

1:00 p.m. – EBay time.

2:00 – ish p.m. - Facebook updates – LinkedIn

4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.

5:00 p.m. – Go home

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The "best part" of the story is that "for the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks" in his performance review, Valentine wrote in the blog.

"His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."