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by teddyh 1189 days ago
I was once asked, during the original dot-com crash many moons ago, to take a pay cut. I replied, essentially, that this was fine by me, as long as I could cut my weekly hours proportionally (I was working full time). I never heard anything more about it, and my pay was not cut, nor was I asked to reduce my hours. This was a small company, and at the same time, other people at the company were being let go.
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Hmm. Where did that end up? Did the pay cuts alleviate over time or did those people get laid off when the company did worse?
The company was entirely focused at what turned out to be a technological dead end, so the business did not improve much in the short term. I don’t know what happened much later, though, as I later quit that job for unrelated reasons, but the company seems to still exist, and they seem to have pivoted to other products.
This is the way to go.