Another reason: "You're primarily interested with salary."
Sounds like this company prides itself on overworking their employees and paying them less than what they're worth.
(Which is what a lot of companies do, but they aren't proud of it.)
Sounds like this company prides itself on overworking their employees and paying them less than what they're worth.
(Which is what a lot of companies do, but they aren't proud of it.)
But that's the clincher: It's only one day (on a weekend so it doesn't compete with your dayjob interests), it's completely volunteer, and it's fun.
A soul-draining corporate job without a salary? I shudder.
I spend a lot of time working on open source. (I never do so at my dayjob.)
The second an open source project demands my time, I shut my computer down and go for a walk. Out of spite, to be truthful. Whatever is wrong, it can wait.
I've rarely ever accepted a request from an employer to stay late to work on something. And when I did, I regretted it later.
I'm passionate by most peoples' standards, and even I wouldn't subject myself to that treatment.
I can't even call people willing to do this masochistic.
If an employee is dissatisfied with their pay, they have the option to either negotiate a higher salary or find another job with higher pay.
(/s)
There are issues when we take the "Market is always right" approach to defining our morals btw. I prefer if our morals came from another power.
That makes no sense to me. When I hire someone, it's in the expectation that the extra money they bring in is more than what they're being paid. They're worth what they bring in, and because I want to make a profit, I pay them a bit less than that.
As an approximation, employees are paid what they're worth. It's an approximation, not definitional.
Being more specific - there may be transition periods where you may become more valuable (through training or whatever) at which point you have the opportunity to seek higher compensation. If one does not seek higher compensation, then one is trading their higher potential salary for other wants/needs (maybe they trade the enjoyment of their current work at a lower pay over the higher salary at another job).
In equilibrium and in an efficient market, the value of the labor provided is equal to the cost of the labor provided.
Of course, in the real world, there are inefficiencies and irrational behaviors, but to a first order - it's approximately correct.