The employer gives you a choice of which method to use in computing your pay. Now the question is what choice will you make and why. Now let us say that you chose choice number two. He also offers to pay you what you are owned and let you go with no hard feelings. On the following graph are some linear equations which I've plotted.
Many people think that knowledge developed in a straight line.
With one invention leading smoothly to the next. Unfortunately or possibly fortunately, depending upon your point of view, this simply isn't true especially when talking about human knowledge or enterprises. In fact few things in nature follow a straight line. Sometimes due to circumstances an object will have straight lines or flat surfaces. Usually, however, this is only happenstance as nature transitions from one curved line or plane to another.