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0 pointszdragnar6mo ago0 comments

> “more more more”

If you're a salaried or hourly employee, you aren't paid for your output, you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity.

If you complete all your work in an hour... you still owe seven hours based on the expectations of your employment agreement, in order to earn your salary and benefits.

If you'd rather work in an output based capacity, you'll want to move to running your own contacting business in a fixed-bid type capacity.

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SketchySeaBeast6mo ago

That's funny, because, at more than one place I've worked as a salaried employee, when I had to work OT, the narrative was "you're salary because you're paid to get the job done, doesn't matter how many hours it takes". Unfortunately, "the job" somehow never worked out to be less than 40 hours a week.

zdragnarOP6mo ago

> you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity

There's legal distinctions between part time and full time employment. Hence, you are expected to put in a minimum number of hours. However, there's nothing to say that the minimum expectation is the minimum for classification for full time employment.

If AI lets you get the job done in 1 hour when you otherwise would have worked overtime, you're still technically being paid to work more than that one hour, and I don't know of any employer that'll pay you to do nothing.

tom_6mo ago

In many (most?) salary jobs, employees are typically paid both to get the job done, and to supply at least N hours of their time for the company to have them use as it sees fit.

SketchySeaBeast6mo ago

Yeah, I've been in industry for over a decade, still don't understand the value of salary for the devs.

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0 pointszdragnar6mo ago0 comments

> “more more more”

If you're a salaried or hourly employee, you aren't paid for your output, you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity.

If you complete all your work in an hour... you still owe seven hours based on the expectations of your employment agreement, in order to earn your salary and benefits.

If you'd rather work in an output based capacity, you'll want to move to running your own contacting business in a fixed-bid type capacity.

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SketchySeaBeast6mo ago

zdragnarOP6mo ago

> you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity

tom_6mo ago

In many (most?) salary jobs, employees are typically paid both to get the job done, and to supply at least N hours of their time for the company to have them use as it sees fit.

SketchySeaBeast6mo ago

Yeah, I've been in industry for over a decade, still don't understand the value of salary for the devs.

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