[Joker_in_the_Pack]

Originally Posted by Despanan

I disagree. I currently work raising funds for Carnegie Hall's education and public outreach programs in New York. Between my commission and my hourly wage I earn about ten dollars an hour. I am expected to produce at least fifty dollars an hour in donations for Carnegie Hall (I usually do much more than that since I'm one of their best salesmen)

Now, my boss undoubtedly makes more than me. If I lacked perspective I might think that he's simply sitting in his office making money off my sweat and taking credit for my accomplishments. However, when you look at it from his perspective, He has to work there every day, day in, day out. He has to take the heat when our team doesn't produce, he has to work with the powers that be to ensure that we are given the leads that we need to produce, he has to handle all the shit that each of my co-works hand him, he has to deal with the office drama, and he has to handle the hiring and firing of employees. Now both me, and my boss are artists. He was an actor, and still performs sketch comedy. I am a playwright and poet, and I also still act. If I need to blow off a few shifts for an audition, or to perform in a show, everything doesn't go down the tubes, they just lose a few hundred dollars, if he blows off a shift they lose thousands because JP starts fucking around thinking he runs the office, myrtle spends her time trying to make sure she always gets the same chair, the people in development at the hall decide that they know better than we do and start wasting money on mailings that our patrons don't respond to, etc.

Unlike me, my boss has chosen to put his acting career on indefinite hold, in favor of being the force which organizes the fundraising arm of Carnegie Hall, I on the other hand, only help out as much as I can, and keep working on getting my plays finished and produced.

Would I like to be paid more? sure, but that would also mean less money that people donate to the cause of music education actually going to music education, and I'm fine with the meager amount that I make, so long as the job provides me with the freedom that I need. My boss has much more invested in that job than I ever will, and thus deserves a greater amount of compensation.

Thinking that a boss's salary is based upon arbitrary hierarchy is childish at best. It's like when you were a little kid and you figured: Man my parents have it great, all they do is tell me what to do! Except Joker is advocating that you and your brothers and sisters lock your parents out of the house because they're exploiting you as a room-cleaning work force.

So the reason your boss deserves more money than you is because your coworkers are a bunch of mouth breathers who don't know how to do their fucking jobs?