[Wikimedia-l] fundraising status?

cyrano cyrano.fawkes at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 01:01:39 UTC 2012


Le 27/12/2012 21:34, Thomas Dalton a écrit :
> On Dec 27, 2012 10:50 PM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> this is the most current iteration of a type of thread
>>> that I find contributes a great deal of stress to my work here. There
> are a
>>> number of assumptions that strike me as bad faith and many of them are
>>> targeted at people I work with (some of them I consider friends), so it
> is
>>> very difficult for me to read this
>> I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone could think my
>> proposal that the salaries of Foundation employees be increased so
>> that none of them are less than 50% of the top executive salary is
>> made in bad faith or "targeted" towards anyone.
> I suspect the assumption of bad faith is because he doesn't believe anyone
> could genuinely propose such a ridiculously bad idea. When limits on such
> ratios are discussed the usual figure I hear is a limit of 10%. 50% is
> completely unrealistic. Either you would have to massively overpay your
> junior staff (wasting donor's money) or you wouldn't be any to attract any
> experienced senior staff.

Hello Thomas,

are you saying that NOBODY can and will do a good job for five times 
less money? There are extremely talented people in the third world, and 
extremely passionated people in the first world, that may accept such a 
pay. I'm dubious about your statement.

Cheers.



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