Comments on: Why Employees don’t deserve the same pay and benefits as Business Owners and Investors https://robbieagustin.com/why-employees-dont-deserve-the-same-pay-and-benefits-as-business-owners-and-investors/ Business Optimization Expert Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:14:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Ovando https://robbieagustin.com/why-employees-dont-deserve-the-same-pay-and-benefits-as-business-owners-and-investors/#comment-131 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:14:40 +0000 https://robbieagustin.com/?p=752#comment-131 As someone who employs people in my own business I can say that often employees do start to think they deserve more. Partly because they don’t actually understand how much I work and what I actually do. They only see me when they are working… so to them they think that they work just as hard as me or more. But They don’t see what I am doing when they are not around. I honestly think I do 90% of the work and they basically are there to keep things running smoothly. That means I do the work to get people in the door (marketing), pay all the bills, developing the program and system such that it is financially viable, dealing with other organisations that the company needs to survive, speaking to lawyers, and much much more. They only turn up and do one specific role for a short time, and they also get a guaranteed payment for their time. I however do not have a guaranteed income, my income is based on how well the business is doing. If the business is making a loss for what ever reason, they still get paid what I agreed with them and I don’t get paid at all.

For me, the issue is, you may get an employee that is gaining new skills, but none of those skills add value to the job you are actually paying them to do. That is to say, they are gaining skills in areas you never asked them to. Which is fine, but then they expect that I see that there value has increased and thus I should pay them more… The question is, has your value increased for MY BUSINESS. If the answer is no then why would I pay you more when you are not helping me to solve my problems.

The other side to the coin is, when you tell them what they should be doing they don’t like it and don’t want to do what you ask them to do. Even though you are telling them how to do their job… They want to do the job their way… they don’t want to do what they are being paid to do…

I think a lot more people should start their own companies so that they can actually understand their employers more. Even to understand how hard what they are doing is, so they don’t take their employers for granted.

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