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Not having read the brochure, I can't tell if its overall tone was
petulant, patronizing, or pedantic.
In *any* company, your work costs the company more than mere salary, and
you do your best to make your work worth more to the company than it
costs. Why would a company "drive home" such an obvious point?
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Horn
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:48 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Contractor pay (was: Tech Writers as Hourly Employees?!)
>
> ... I worked for a large corporation in the 90's that used
> to send out annual brochures explaining to salaried employees
> what we REALLY made. It factored in the cost of health care,
> life insurance, gym reimbursements, base salary, social
> security, and all those intangibles.
> It was a little cheesy, but it drove the point home that the
> company was spending quite a bit more than what we took home
> just to keep us on...
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