Reply #74: So why do you get higher pay?

[LeahMira]

I'm 5'2 and have an IQ of 150; you are 6'4, built like a wrestler, and don't have the sense to get out of the rain.

It makes sense that at noon we switch jobs and I begin laying pipe while you begin drawing schematics.


That's not quite how it works, but I'm surprised that with all your intelligence you don't have the confidence to think you could lay pipe.

Maybe the guys who actually do lay the pipe could tell you how to make your schematics work better in real life. It seems worth a listen anyhow, don't you think?

It might surprise you to know that a few of those pipe layers think you "college boys" don't have the sense to come in out of the rain either.

The point is to get rid of the hierarchy and start cooperating. People really do work better together when everyone feels they have a stake in the outcome... and that their talents are valued equally.