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Maybe. $1600 is still $1600 though, and the luxuries add up to real money. Especially worrisome when you're generating no real revenue and operating on other people's dime.
Is your workstation a luxury? Bathrooms? Desks? Ergonomic chairs are no different. They are tools of your trade; don't skimp on tools.
Looks like I'm getting a new chair soon. The best thing about the Dot Com bubble bursting was my cheap Aeron. I'm ready to upgrade.
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Cheap for an engineer in some parts of the USA. Can we please stop pretending that (what are in most of the world) large amounts of money are actually small potatoes. It is not ignorance, you know you're better off than the rest of us so please stop pretending like it's nothing.
that's a typical engineer salary in a funded startup or a big tech company in basically any U.S. city that has funded startups or big tech companies. I know engineer pay is lower in some other countries. UK comes to mind as particularly awful for engineer pay. Still, the context of the discussion is in how much it costs _the company_ not how much it costs the engineer. It's small potatoes for a company.
If you think the countries like the UK where pay is lower than the US, which is the highest in the world, is "particularly awful", you might be living in a bubble.
Not to mention plenty of people making less than 100k even in the US, even for big tech companies you've heard of in big cities like Seattle and New York.
Looks like I'm getting a new chair soon. The best thing about the Dot Com bubble bursting was my cheap Aeron. I'm ready to upgrade.
I assumed by the title that this would be an article about Richard, the guy who runs the Desk Depot in Mountain View! http://www.deskdepot.net/chairs
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$1500/1920 work hours a year = $0.78/hr. Seems reasonable to me.
Maybe. $1600 is still $1600 though, and the luxuries add up to real money. Especially worrisome when you're generating no real revenue and operating on other people's dime.
Meanwhile you have things like ad campaigns that have "unlimited" budgets. Hell, there's tripling staff size in a year without some matching revenue growth!
Chairs don't kill startups.
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Maybe. $1600 is still $1600 though, and the luxuries add up to real money. Especially worrisome when you're generating no real revenue and operating on other people's dime.
except they don't? You could choose to not buy 20 chairs and... get 1 engineer for a couple months? Meanwhile you have things like ad campaigns that have "unlimited" budgets. Hell, there's tripling staff size in a year without some matching revenue growth! Chairs don't kill startups.
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People do not hire more when firing is easy.
Employers are more willing to hire risky people if it's easy to fire them. If it is not, large vetting processes are required and hiring people reduces. Because making a mistakes costs so much. It's even worse for small businesses where one bad hire you cannot fire can bankrupt the company. It's a reason why young people find it hard to get full time permanent jobs and are instead hired as temps instead.
No they aren't. This is a nice theory, but it simply does not hold up in reality. Stop repeating it as gospel.
>If it is not, large vetting processes are required and hiring people reduces.
People vet their employees either way.
>It's a reason why young people find it hard to get full time permanent jobs and are instead hired as temps instead.
No it isn't. This reasoning was used to justify the 90 day trial period in NZ and it did NOT lead to more jobs.
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that's a typical engineer salary in a funded startup or a big tech company in basically any U.S. city that has funded startups or big tech companies. I know engineer pay is lower in some other countries. UK comes to mind as particularly awful for engineer pay. Still, the context of the discussion is in how much it costs _the company_ not how much it costs the engineer. It's small potatoes for a company.
And 80% of the software engineers in the world aren't in America. If you think the countries like the UK where pay is lower than the US, which is the highest in the world, is "particularly awful", you might be living in a bubble. Not to mention plenty of people making less than 100k even in the US, even for big tech companies you've heard of in big cities like Seattle and New York.
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At $1500 for a chair, no wonder these startups are failing.
$1500/1920 work hours a year = $0.78/hr. Seems reasonable to me.