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My Point Of View On...
Employee Compensation
My Point Of View No. 1: All employees should be paid a salaried wage to complete the work required of their job, regardless of how much time it takes to complete that work, because "it takes as long as it takes" to get a job done correctly.
My Point Of View No. 2: Paying an employee an hourly wage does not really make any sense, due to the fact that time passes regardless of how much work is being done, or is not being done.
My Point Of View No. 3: All employees should be paid a salaried wage to complete the work of their job in order to compensate for the completion of that work, rather than being paid an hourly wage in order to compensate only for the passage of time.
My Point Of View No. 4: All employees should not be exploited, however, due to being paid a salaried wage rather that an hourly wage—since salaried wages would eliminate all overtime pay—because the employee's pay should reflect an average forty-hour work week, or their pay should reflect approximately how many hours it is estimated to take in order to complete the work of their job because, after all, "time is money."
My Point Of View No. 5: All employees should also share in the profits of a company—along with the owner(s) and investor(s)—since the employees are clearly putting a great effort into a company, and are working to create the profits, along with the owner(s) and investor(s) of a company.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Math Magician)
"I can explain everything!"
My Mathematical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this prose can be summed up with the following statement: What inspired this post about employee compensation was not, in fact, the state of me being employed itself: it was cleaning my apartment for my Section 8 rental assistance "Housing Quality Standards Inspection." (The reader should know that I am HIV-positive with full-blown AIDS. And I am on Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, so my income is quite limited.)
You see, I was thinking about how much time that it takes to complete each cleaning chore and that reminded me of what it was like to work at jobs where I was being paid an hourly wage to do work as opposed to jobs where I was being paid a salaried wage to do work. And I realized that being paid an hourly wage is simply paying an employee for the passage of time, rather than paying an employee for the work that is being completed—which is the difference between being an hourly wage earner as opposed to a salaried wage earner—since most "blue-collar jobs" are paid hourly wages and most "white-collar jobs" are paid salaried wages.
So, that is how I concluded that all employees should be paid a salaried wage to complete the work required of their job, regardless of how much time it takes to complete that work, because "it takes as long as it takes" to get a job done correctly. And paying an employee an hourly wage does not really make any sense, due to the fact that time passes regardless of how much work is being done, or is not being done. Thus, I really feel strongly that all employees should be paid a salaried wage to complete the work of their job in order to compensate for the completion of that work, rather than being paid an hourly wage in order to compensate only for the passage of time...
...However, I also feel strongly that all employees should not be exploited, due to being paid a salaried wage rather that an hourly wage—since salaried wages would eliminate all overtime pay—because an employee's pay should reflect an average forty-hour work week, or their pay should reflect approximately how many hours it is estimated to take in order to complete the work of their job because, after all, "time is money." Plus, all employees should also share in the profits of a company—along with the owner(s) and investor(s)—since the employees are clearly putting a great effort into a company, and are working to create the profits, along with the owner(s) and investor(s) of a company.
And this prose was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this prose applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This prose was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
This "Paul Whiting — Math Magician" Post No. 025 was edited on April 17th, 2023.
"Prose is using all of the words that are necessary in order to describe all that is necessary to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
