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I, at 37, am reaching my first professional opportunity to manage a support resource I've needed for 5 years, to maintain the data infrastructure I have built that has cut and dry made my company at least 40 million dollars in the past 2 years, but arguably has also saved the company at least 250k in manpower hours each year.

That resource is an outsourced individual from a firm in India who is making a slave wage.

I am also still severely undercompensated.

I wanna flip the monopoly board.

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M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Best thing I ever did was quit the job I went to school for to sell drugs. I would say my only regret is not starting a business and going to collage 15 years ago.

The amount of sacrifice we make for the places we work for is not fully appreciated.

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- Melkath@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean... ever consider opening a dispensary?
  
  I can't stand sales, but it sounds like it would be a solid move for you.
  
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  - M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ha, I have two stores right now that sell recreational cannabis. We don’t get to call them dispensaries. I am a legal drug dealer thank you very much.
    
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    Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I would read your yet to be published book on the experience of getting those stores started. I have often wondered about the process.
    
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Infinite@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Work on not referring to people as resources.

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- RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Spoken like a true resource
  
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  - Melkath@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I'm torn on how to respond to them.
    
    5 years of pleading for a business analyst and or a jr data engineer has become "I need a support resource".
    
    To me a resource is a person or thing that generates value.
    
    I dont see "support resource" as a dehumanizing or offensive phrasing.
    
    I might live to change my tune though... if I can get some support resources in my life.
    
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    TheBeege@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d argue it depends on context. When it comes to corporate budgeting, ‘resource’ is appropriate, as it could be a contracted company, a tool, or an individual. When it comes to actual manpower, I think referring by title is reasonable.
    
    But in the context of hiring and HR, “resource” is the only term they understand, especially if there is trouble making the ROI clear
    
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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Indian employees earn anywhere between 1/8-1/16 of an American employee. And their annual raise is also paltry af.

If that employee is technically competent, he’s not going to stay for more than 2 years, if that.

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- Melkath@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My hope is that in our time together, I can teach them some stuff that elevates then out of the aforementioned slave wage.
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I can’t get myself a fair wage.
    
    Keep giving interviews, ask for minimum 30% more than what you are making, ask for hybrid or WFH.
    
    Since you have a job now, you can afford to be selective.
    
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