> Is that extremely petty and spoiled?When I interview, I put a price on every chore, inconvenience and petty indignity a given workplace will expose me to.
Then I subtract that from the salary and see if the offer is still competitive.
They want me to do a bunch of business travel by plane? I hate airports, so travelling once per year is equivalent to a 3% pay cut. They want me to browse the web without an ad blocker? That's about a 20% pay cut. I can't have local admin on my work machine? That's 8%. Join an on call rota that gets between 1 and 3 calls per week? 7%. I gotta take a company-issued phone? 5%.
You don't like Teams - but would you pay $10,000 a year to avoid using it? Because you were offered a job that paid $10,000 more and you rejected it because of Teams, that's what you're doing.
That way, I'm never turning down a job because I'm petty and spoiled. I'm turning down a job because unfortunately, the price wasn't right.
When I interview, I put a price on every chore, inconvenience and petty indignity a given workplace will expose me to.
Then I subtract that from the salary and see if the offer is still competitive.
They want me to do a bunch of business travel by plane? I hate airports, so travelling once per year is equivalent to a 3% pay cut. They want me to browse the web without an ad blocker? That's about a 20% pay cut. I can't have local admin on my work machine? That's 8%. Join an on call rota that gets between 1 and 3 calls per week? 7%. I gotta take a company-issued phone? 5%.
You don't like Teams - but would you pay $10,000 a year to avoid using it? Because you were offered a job that paid $10,000 more and you rejected it because of Teams, that's what you're doing.
That way, I'm never turning down a job because I'm petty and spoiled. I'm turning down a job because unfortunately, the price wasn't right.