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At least tips are in cash, not funny money.
With this practice, your total pay is always equal to the minimum wage. You get minimum wage even if you earn no tips. In other words, the tips are worth zero to you, they just save your employer money.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least tips are in cash, not funny money.
With this practice, your total pay is always equal to the minimum wage. You get minimum wage even if you earn no tips. In other words, the tips are worth zero to you, they just save your employer money.
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I'd argue your first example is actually fair. Someone who has trouble negotiating in professional circles is going to have issues far beyond the workplace, if nothing else they're going to get repeatably screwed buying a car, and they should work on that. Why shouldn't the more aggressive, more strategic people earn more on average? I'd argue they give more of a damn by definition. The ability to project social forc…
> Why shouldn't the more aggressive, more strategic people earn more on average? Because being "aggressive" and "strategic" are not the only two qualities useful to providing value to an employer. Hell, depending on your role, being aggressive can be a negative.
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> Sadly your pay has little to do with merit, and more to do with perception, connections, face time and ability to handle office issues better than your cohort. These are merits. They mean you're easy to work with, people want to work with you, you know how to make and maintain important relationships. You'd make a good leader. You can recruit talented people. You can get preferential treatment from vendors. Your pr…
All the things the OP listed are real merits. It's not even a game, but being a professional. Perception = you are good at communicating your work to others Connections = you have a strong network and stay informed and know who to talk to for different tasks Face time = you are easy to get along with Ability to handle office issues = you are a lubricant that make the group dynamic work If you don't do those things, t…
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sure, you bargained. But your job isn't to bargain for salary. That's not the value you provide to a company. And so the dumb part, the unfair part, about salary discrepancies is that it is divorced from performance. It is divorced from value. Which doesn't mean that you, on an individual level, shouldn't negotiate. But it does imply that salary negotiation generally leads to results that (very) (incredibly) (if at a…
> your job isn't to bargain for salary This is a bit nonsensical. Nobody knows better than you what your time is worth because it is your time . You don't owe companies anything, including working for less than you are willing to take in payment.
You need to be confident that you can find another job that pays equally or better in order to be truely using the leverage.
A lot of people don't have that security and cannot take that risk.
Back when I worked there, they had something called "Blizzard Bucks" to "supplement" your salary. Basically "Blizzard Bucks" was Monopoly money we could use to buy their microtransactions and WoW game-time. In reality, you made approx. $30-40k sans OT, but they would always calculate your "salary" at $50-60k because of all the "Blizzard Bucks" and claim your salary was industry best. The best part was, and they would…
Is it possible to spend $20k per year in WoW?
Oh, and Hearthstone packs
[edit: forgot Hearthstone]
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Then you dont know your western history :-) There used to be whole towns where you'd get entirely paid in, and shop with, corporate funny money https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
At least company scrip was used to buy food/normal goods, albeit at a large markup. "Blizzard bucks" sound completely useless unless you're really into games
Basically, say Blizzard compensates you $20k in Blizzard bucks, and you auction off $20k worth of items at a reduced rate, you end up taking $20k * discount rate from Blizzard’s revenue, roughly speaking.
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With this practice, your total pay is always equal to the minimum wage. You get minimum wage even if you earn no tips. In other words, the tips are worth zero to you, they just save your employer money.
Not following. Don't tips go directly to the recipient without any reductions?
So possibly unpopular point of view here, maybe not on HN, but I think pay discrepancies can be entirely fair. I'm almost certain my pay is different from my colleagues, but I've bargained like hell to get it. When I was hired, every time we've been acquired. I'm no executive either, I'm just a developer with a proven history of give-a-damn. I think it's perfectly fair game in a job where it's hard to replace individ…
Everyone is replaceable. True that it is much harder to find a new dev or manager, but they still exist. I believe thinking a bit outside the box is a good idea, doesn't mean you have to start a workers union.
And while it might not be fitting to single out Blizzard as a company here, I think this "compensation" is taking the piss out of employees.
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With this practice, your total pay is always equal to the minimum wage. You get minimum wage even if you earn no tips. In other words, the tips are worth zero to you, they just save your employer money.
Unless you get more tips to push you past minimum wage.