Bonus question: how much would a company have to pay you for you to give 100% effort at work?

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    At least $100k with all the bullshit they put us through. 🙄

    But if they got me to $80k—$90k, I’d be a quieter worker bee.

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    11 days ago

    If I take my pay in 1999 and adjust for inflation that’s about $70k, so that would be about fair probably. Two of those (two income family) is about what it would take to be comfortable here too. Very comfortable if no kids.

  • Thebular@lemmy.world
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    Eh, I’d be happy with $30 hourly. At 70 hours a week (line cook) I’d be making around $100k. I was making 87¢ an hour above minimum wage at the place I just left. I gave 100% anyway because if I didn’t the experience really sucked

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    12 days ago

    I think what I get is ok, because I adjust my effort to the payment.

    I don’t think I could give 100% effort at work, that would burn me out in no time and that’s not worth any money.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    A thousand dollars a day. I work hard to complete pain & exhaustion and people appreciate the service I provide and they request me and come back for more. And it completely wears me out body mind and soul. Now let’s factor in the cost of living. I feel my labor is worth $1,000 a day. I know that’s not too much to ask because there are plenty of miscreants out in the world who don’t work half as hard as I do but they earn a lot more.

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    I am struggling with “fair” here. I’m pretty well paid for the public sector, but the private sector would offer a 50%+ increase with a noticable loss of stability. So I don’t know. I do think they should have promoted me years ago though .

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    11 days ago

    I work at a bakery. I would love to earn my regular hourly wage and deep clean everything that gets a cursory daily scrub, but they’d need to staff an additional person that day or have me come in overnight.

    We’re a comparatively clean bakery, but it’s just not possible to maintain an environment that’s perfect for yeast to grow without also making it a perfect environment for everything else to grow perfectly as well.

    They pay me €15/hour which feels like more than I actually need or would expect for the work I do, but I’m trying to work on that. Obviously I contribute more than €15/hour if that’s what they pay me, it’s just almost double what I’ve earned at similar jobs in the US and 2/3 of what I earned there at an insurance company analyzing contracts, so it seems wild to get that for customer service.

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    I actually think I get paid a decent wage at ~$35/hr (CAD) but the cost of living is just so goddamn high where I live that it’s not quite enough to get me by comfortably. So really, if I were doing this job elsewhere then that’s fine, my job’s really not that hard. but realistically, because of the state of my province, I’d give them my 100% for 45. They seem pretty happy with the 75% I’m putting in now though (some days less).

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    12 days ago

    Google says i should make ~$150k. The sheer scope and complexity of my work deserves far more in my opinion. That and stupid tax to deal with a major corporation. So, I’ll round up to an even $200k. Full effort… $300k.