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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023

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So he's going to get paid the equivalent of half a senior engineer's salary to wait two hours each way each day because he bought a condo in the city and takes public transportation.

That time is not his own, so yes, he should be compensated for it.

I will work as much as him but not get paid that extra 50% total pay amount because I chose to buy a place reasonably close to work.

And you are being paid in four hours of time per day.

Choose to live near work or choose to burn personal time traveling to work. If someone values their own time so very little that they get a place far from work, then no one owes them any money. We certainly don't need the perverse incentive of paying people to have extra long commutes.

On the contrary, it's you who doesn't value your time, as you spend it on work, willingly, without asking for recompense. And we don't need to be wasting our lives on ever-longer commutes from cheaper outlying towns into designated economic activity areas, either. Maybe the employer can implement remote working if it bothers them so much?

Do you have any job openings? I'd like to work for you. I'm looking forward to receiving your formal offer letter!

On a totally irrelevant, tiny little matter, I happen to have a three hour and fifty nine minute commute each way. I expect the standard compensation still, but it appears that all I can provide for you is two minutes worth of work each day.

Wilfully misunderstanding everything I've been saying doesn't make you appear smart, it makes you appear a clown.

You'd have to work remotely, leave your house at 4:01am, or not have the job. I expect you'll be choosing to leave at 4:01 and return home just in time to have two entire, luxurious minutes of recreation before sleeping, since that's apparently a completely reasonable thing to expect of people and definitely not a complete waste of fucking life?

Oh wait, you're offering overtime pay for while I'm just sitting on a train playing on my phone?! (Maybe I'll even sleep during that time.) This is an even sweeter deal. I will definitely take this job for a few years, bank all the extra cash money, and then fook off. I've worked essentially two full-time jobs in the past, which is doable for a period of time. Didn't even get that sweet OT pay for sitting on a train. This is a wayyyy better deal.

Sorry, I don't offer positions to disingenuous little shits :)

I told you not to post like this. Making it pithier doesn't make it better.

Banned for two days.

I guess what we've really learned from this conversation is that you're not self-employed! Can you even try to explain how your claim was supposed to work?!

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