May 20, 2006
Joan prepares for a lifetime of destitution
My salary review is coming up and I’ve just completed a postgraduate law workshop in negotiation. Guess what that means?
Nah, it’s hopeless. Dilbert’s Salary Law tells me so. Here, I’ll reproduce it for you.
Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as business executives.
Now we have mathmatical proof that explains why this is true:Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.As every engineer knows,
Work
————– = Power
Time
Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money, we have: Work
————– = Knowledge
Money
Solving for Money we get: Work
————– = Money
Knowledge Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity regardless of the Work done.
Conclusion: The less you Know, the More you Make.
Damn. I’d better start saving now.
serendipity said,
May 21, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
what a waste. i should have studied less in the first place.
vera said,
May 21, 2006 @ 10:08 pm
Don’t worry Joan, I have little enough knowledge to buy you all the workshops you want.
Thara said,
May 21, 2006 @ 11:48 pm
Counter example: Professor at Yale. They are pretty rich (you are looking at high end of 6 figures here), and they are quite clever( or else they wouldn’t get a job there ).
I guess another counter to counter example is Paris Hilton. She is pretty rich and not doing very much and I am doubtful if she has that brain capacity.