Comment Re:Database? (Score 1) 371
An intelligent person would recognise this
You conflate "intelligence" with being coldly logical and rational in purely monetary terms.
In my experience, human psychology is not purely logical. For example, people will often respect someone- or something- more if they are paying more for them; and, conversely, less if they are getting something on the cheap or free.
An employer that is paying top dollar for his workforce can afford to treat his sophisticated tools with as much contempt as the law allows.
An employer that does that is probably paying through the nose for the minor privilege of being able to treat some people with such "contempt".
It would smack of someone who was more interested in indulging his bullying than running a business competently and thus raise two sets of alarms for any potential employee(!)
But even assuming the company's long-term survival was assured... Some people *will* undoubtedly accept this if they're being paid enough, but in *some* cases (which will vary depending upon the psychology of the persons involved and their motivation), it's unlikely that you'll ever get their best work, regardless of how much you pay, if you treat them with contempt.
Which, of course, makes them worth less.
A person less intelligent would complain that in his role as a sophisticated screw driver he is not getting respect he believes he deserves.
Again, you are imposing your own pseudo-logical values on the concept of "intelligence". I say "pseudo-logical" because since human beings *don't* always behave as the purely rational, logical, self-interest-maximising idealised entities you assume, anything that relies on this being the case is ultimately flawed. Which, ironically, makes it illogical.
If you are treated with more than simple master/tool interaction, you are exchanging top dollar for 'warmer' treatment
Once again, this assumes that all human behaviour is purely logical and can be traded off and gamed in such terms.
I worked as a permanent employee, as a contractor
I would guess that you are probably more suited to the "in and out", supposedly demonstrable-value contractor style of doing things, as it's probably closer to the situation you describe above. If that's what suits you, then fair enough, but your chosen way of working isn't how everything works.
and I run my company now, I know all of this very intimately
Remind me never, *ever* to work for you.