When jerseykrs made his thread about having posted 20.000 times, I gave him this as a response:

retina said:

Now if we want to take it a bit further, I think it's fair to assume that we spend at least four times as long reading on the org than we do writing, which would then add around four and half months of full-time "work" on the org.

Okay, so 4.5 months of reading plus 1.5 months of writing = 6 months.
Say that your monthly salary is $3000 (I don't think that's unrasonable considering most people's age and experience). 6 x $3000 = $18.000

That's what your employer is paying you, which in actual reality usually means that you're costing them around twice as much (because of employer's fees, insurance, consumption of electricity, rent etc etc etc), so that takes us up to a whopping $36.000.

$36.000 / 20.000 posts = one dollar and eighty cents!

That's how much each post is costing your employer if you do all your orging from work, as many of us do. But I guess you could flip it around and say that you're actually earning around 90 cents per post since you're getting paid for your time. That's not too shabby for posting a or a , wouldn't you say?

Then again, you could flip it around again and realize that:
20.000 posts means 6 months full-time spent on the org
10.000 posts means 3 months full-time spent on the org
5.000 posts (even I have reached that) means 1.5 months full-time spent on the org




PS: The numbers are obviously just very rough estimates, so don't get your knickers in a twist.

PS2: I don't even know where I'm going with this thread, I guess it's just a reality check.

PS3: I'm unemployed so I'm not actually costing or getting payed anything, I'm just wasting precious time.

PS4: Okay, this PS was incredibly unnecessary.

I hate this thread but I love the shit out of retina so I'm going lend my support!


holla!

CarrieMpls said:

$1.80! Krrching!

emm said:

Those $1.80 were very well spent, emm.

retina said:

Probably only $0.90. Only about half of my orging is at work. I'm at home now.

Imago said:

Thanks, I'm counting on you to keep this from hitting page 2 within 10 min.

CarrieMpls said:

You're always on the org.
If I'm ever on here and you're not I feel this eerie coldness closing in on me, as if there's a disturbance in the force.

retina said:

I think that means I need to log off a bit more. No one's supposed to notice how often I'm online.



No, I've notcied I"ve been on a LOT more over the last few months. I think it's the winter. Since it's been cold I've been nesting and barely leaving the house. And my job has been getting boring. It'll kick up at work in a couple of weeks and I'll be way too busy.

Wow Tina, you're really bored

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and for me, a recovering lurker, it's probably closer to ten times more reading than posting.

further proof that I have no life.

evenstar3 said:

I noticed that. You read the compliments I gave you on your appreciation thread, but you didn't post anything about them. You're supposed to acknowledge your fans.

retina said:

this is why i lurk! attention makes me nervous!

retina said:

it was some very wry comment about all my time being worthless
then the org ate it. what about that? all the time multiplied by all those orgers hitting the refresh button.










at least

emm said:

Together we're single-handedly going to start a worldwide recession, especially with the org bug doing its part.

retina said:

This is funny! So much time wasted

Have you considered a career in accounting?

retina said:

but expensive.

Phew! I misread the title as $180 per post which I thought a bit steep

retina said:

Fuck.

littlemissG said:

No. I'd depress the hell out of everybody.

Stax said:

Indeed.

Fauxie said:

You're in Thailand so that post probably just cost society 20 cents or so.

ZombieKitten said:

You don't think $1.80 for every single post is pretty darned steep too? Rich aussies...

novabrkr said:

Is that:
Fuck = I wish I was paid that much per month!
or
Fuck = That adds up to a shitload of money!
or
Fuck = Man, your calculations are screwed up!
?

retina said:

retina said:

All of the above. And I would elaborate the first option with the additional line, "shit, I'm such a fucking loser, ain't I?".