Re: Shy teenager

You know, in general, I agree with you. If you were to say Dell, Nike,
Reebok, Ford or many other companies that have employees overseas or
outsource overseas, I would agree with you.

Although people in India and other countries where Microsoft has offices
get paid less, the buying power of the money the recieve and the standard
of living is probably similar to life here in the US.

I don't know about people who work for Microsoft in India, I suspect they do
ok, it's the Indians and other nationals that work for Microsoft in the US
that have the problems.

Bill Gates actually earns thousands less than any of his employees. In
fact, I think he is the lowest paid employee in the entire company. His
annual wage is $1. Of course, he makes up for it on company stock. Of
course, Bill Gates no longer runs the company. There has been a new CEO
for a few years. Bill Gates spends a lot of time on his charity.

true, but then the employees do not get particularly great stock options and
there is little benefit to having options if you don't have any spare money
to actually purchase them. He ends up doing a surprising amount of day to
day running, though he is supposed to be completely stepping down from that
in 2008.

Employees who are janitors and such may make a marginal living. However, I
think the vast majority of employees, here in the US and abroad, make a
living that is above the mean and median income for their area. If any of
the employees have trouble making ends meet, I think it is rarely because
the means are not adequate. I am not saying that employees can expect a
life of luxury, however.

I'm talking about educated employees, to get a visa to come from another
country, you have to have education and experience. They may make above the
mean and median for the area (but the area around Microsoft is affluent, so
possibly not), what is unfair is that they make less than a US national
doing the same job. The vasy majority of US nationals who work at microsoft
would be able to own there own home, within 10 miles of campus. Most non US
nationals live in rented apartments, when you dig deeper, they are either
being employed at a lower level than would have been attached to the job had
a US national been doing it, or being paid at the lowest amount possible
within the level.

In this particular case, I don't see why Microsoft shouldn't employ people
who aren't in the US. Microsoft sells software to just about every
country. I think it is only fair that he employees people in every
country. In addition, Microsoft probably has nice offices overseas. And
certainly Microsoft lifts the economies of the places where they employ
people, whether it is in Washington or Hyderabad or Ireland.

I agree, but I wasn't talking about those people and even in the developing
world, Microsoft employees out of the US probably do very well out of it.
I'm talking about those people that are flown into the US, given very little
information about life in the US, how much it costs to live in the US and so
on, then get here to find the simply because the cost of living is fairly
high in the area around Microsoft that they may well be worse off than
before and certainly worse off than if they had worked for Microsoft in
there home country.

I also rather suspect Bill Gates has no idea that this is even going on, it
seems to be at a middle management level that decisions about pay of new
employees are made.

Anne


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