[ttoks]

just to add, is not that the person is stealing money. The person is working for it, the bare minimum, but the employer still happy to pay that salary or else they would have the person fired.

now imagine being paid the same for busting your ass 14 hours a day, and someone doing the bare minimum being paid the same? People should stop overworking. People's salary represents the minimum amount of money that their boss is willing to pay for the work, so to the minimum amount of work required.

Questions like "what are your expectations?", usually can be read as "how low can you go?".

You put a very nice argument there.

[varjag]

Could it happen that someone has to bust their ass 14 hours a day because someone else works 4 hours?

[raydev]

If so, it shouldn't happen for long since the person working 14 hours a day would inform their manager/boss to

1. Readjust estimates/expectations because a team member has stopped contributing (happens all the time if someone gets sick/hospitalized, there should be processes for this)

2. Address the problematic employee to confirm they will contribute, or fire them

If the actual-worker is still overburdened, then it's a management/company problem and the overburdened should be looking around for new employment.

[hnzix]

If someone is slacking off then they need to be performance managed or fired. That's management's problem.