Would You Forfeit a Raise to Work From Home?

harryk asks: "There seems to have been a fair amount of talk about new jobs, telecommuting, and fair pay recently, so I pose this question: Would you forfeit some or all of a potential raise to work from home? My company is notoroisly bad about giving decent raises so I have been contemplating offering an alternative to receiving a raise, or a reduced raise with an expense reimbursement for telecommuting? What are your thoughts?"

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Re:No way.

[renehollan]

My family contributes absolutely nothing toward their welfare (food, shelter, clothing, etc.).

My employer does.

In fact my family causes a great deal of wear and tear on their shelter (clothing too, but that's to be expected). I could've retired three years ago if I never got married. Single slashdotters, take note of that: marriage is unbelievably expensive, kids more so.

When my wife gets bitchy about my hours, I ask her if she likes to eat, sleep out of the rain, cold and other weather, and if she wants to return to that communist hell hole known as Canada (my opinion on Canada is well documented, and she shares it.) She shuts up.