• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    $50 sounds like a ridiculous commission under any circumstances. There are more numbers that we need before we can really judge the situation though. It’s not like $50 went to your friend and $14,950 went to their boss’s pocket. Surely there’s a cost to manufacture whatever it is being sold. Still, there’s no way that 0.3% is a reasonable sales commission.

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      4 hours ago

      They don’t get paid commission. Since people continue to work for companies like this and are OK being paid so little, nothing will change.

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        Yeah, I was gonna say, that sounds more being paid an hourly rate (at sub-livable wage, BTW) and $0 commission.