On Dec 28, 2012 1:02 AM, "cyrano" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 27/12/2012 21:34, Thomas Dalton a écrit : > >> On Dec 27, 2012 10:50 PM, "James Salsman" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> this is the most current iteration of a type of thread >>>> that I find contributes a great deal of stress to my work here. There >> >> are a >>>> >>>> number of assumptions that strike me as bad faith and many of them are >>>> targeted at people I work with (some of them I consider friends), so it >> >> is >>>> >>>> very difficult for me to read this >>> >>> I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone could think my >>> proposal that the salaries of Foundation employees be increased so >>> that none of them are less than 50% of the top executive salary is >>> made in bad faith or "targeted" towards anyone. >> >> I suspect the assumption of bad faith is because he doesn't believe anyone >> could genuinely propose such a ridiculously bad idea. When limits on such >> ratios are discussed the usual figure I hear is a limit of 10%. 50% is >> completely unrealistic. Either you would have to massively overpay your >> junior staff (wasting donor's money) or you wouldn't be any to attract any >> experienced senior staff. > > > Hello Thomas, > > are you saying that NOBODY can and will do a good job for five times less money? There are extremely talented people in the third world, and extremely passionated people in the first world, that may accept such a pay. I'm dubious about your statement.
Well, I suppose "any" is a bit of an exaggeration. It would be extremely difficult though. Why would someone from the third world come to San Francisco and accept a salary 5 times lower than they could get at a similar organisation ? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
