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RE: TW Salaries--Is it me, or are people greedier? (Mild Vent)
Subject:RE: TW Salaries--Is it me, or are people greedier? (Mild Vent) From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:15:53 -0600
Also, what about companies that are operating at a loss? Should all the
employees of Amazon.com be expected to pay a percentage of their boss's
losses every month?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elna Tymes [SMTP:etymes -at- lts -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 1:12 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: TW Salaries--Is it me, or are people greedier? (Mild
> Vent)
>
> Paying employees as a percentage of revenue is a wonderful socialist
> concept, but it
> doesn't work in real life. Revenue itself is based on market factors,
> which can
> turn on a dime, so to speak, and respond to influences that have nothing
> whatsoever
> to do with employee competence, ability with tools, experience in the
> industry, or
> anything else that's measurable. Markets are markets, and they have their
> own
>
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