A few years ago, my friend, a contractor/freelancer, started working for a company. Things went well for more than a year. Then, close to the second year, the company grew, and (I think) they realized they couldn't pay my friend the amount they used to do.
They offered 3 choices to him. One of the choices was to keep everything the same, so basically, there was no pay raise even though the company performed well.
They offered two more ways of engagement. They sounded great. You could feel a better connection with the company, profits and all that. But these were only projections. When we put everything into a spreadsheet, we figured that both alternatives performed significantly worse than the current engagement model. The same company tried to pull this off two more times without success.
To this day, I don't know if they wanted to teach him critical thinking or if they wanted to get away with paying him less. :)
Always question. Here's a short story.
A few years ago, my friend, a contractor/freelancer, started working for a company. Things went well for more than a year. Then, close to the second year, the company grew, and (I think) they realized they couldn't pay my friend the amount they used to do.
They offered 3 choices to him. One of the choices was to keep everything the same, so basically, there was no pay raise even though the company performed well.
They offered two more ways of engagement. They sounded great. You could feel a better connection with the company, profits and all that. But these were only projections. When we put everything into a spreadsheet, we figured that both alternatives performed significantly worse than the current engagement model. The same company tried to pull this off two more times without success.
To this day, I don't know if they wanted to teach him critical thinking or if they wanted to get away with paying him less. :)