2007.02.06

Why I’m Paid Less Than My Manager

Now I understand why I’m paid so much less than my manager(s)!

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.

Postulate 2: Time is Money.

As every engineer knows, Power = Work/Time

Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money, we have Knowledge = Work/Money

Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work/Knowledge

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity regardless of the Work done.

Conclusion: The Less you Know, The More you Make.

I like comment number 8 at the site from someone named Christophe; “This also demonstrates the superiority of intelligent design over science: you don’t need any knowledge to perform efficiently, but you need an engineer/scientist to demonstrate it!”

Brilliant.

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2 Responses to “Why I’m Paid Less Than My Manager”

1. Kevin says  (February 6th, 2007 at 20:46:39 )

   I believe it. My boss (Head of I.T) often submits trouble tickets for one of us to come install a new DVD Drive or troubleshoot what might be wrong with his network connection.

2. douglas says  (February 7th, 2007 at 00:01:56 )

   My new boss submits tickets, too, but usually because he hears from other managers about things that need doing that no one tells us about. For a while he also submitted tickets purely about his own computer but that was because he wanted to experience it as a normal user would without admin privs.

   Honestly, I have no issue with any of my previous bosses (except one…). It’s usually my friend’s bosses that I have to wonder how these people ever escaped Darwin Awards.