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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:56:33 -0500, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: ...Or "Dell Serf"? Both of which are *voluntary*. ....Until 1998, when two upper-level idiots posing as managers conned a drunken Michael Dell into completely reorganizing the R&D side of things from Line-Of-Business orientation to Commodity-Specific orientation, being a "Dell Serf" was not only voluntary, but an honor because you might not be getting paid top dollar, but the side benefits *and* getting the jump on everyone else with the latest tech made up for it. Nowadays, thanks to all the ****ups caused by ex-IBM managers thinking what they did that got them fired from IBM in the first place *must* work anywhere else, most people don't renew their contracts and move on when they're done. ....This is why I'm convinced that employers should be required by law to provide a *fun* workplace, and if they can't provide said don't get into business. From my own experience, a fun workplace keeps the medical costs down because nobody's stressing out unless it's absolutely necessary, and even then not for long. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:59:21 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Scott
Hedrick" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: "Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... I still think this is an odd way to fish, but using thermite to boil a pond full of ducks is a little odd also, but at least does not lack in imagination. Depends on how hungry you are. I don't really care about fishing, so if I was hungry, and had one available, I'd consider dropping a grenade. Sure, there's not much sport in it, but the goal isn't to enjoy sport, it's to eat. Reminds me of the old joke about the two guys in a boat. One of them tosses a stick of dynamite into the pond, and reaps the results by skimming the stunned fish off the top. His companion starts to complain, and the first one says, "Hey, you wanna talk, or you wanna fish?" |
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OM wrote: ...Gibson's we had, and from 1968 thru 1971, it was the only place in town to get kits at knockdown prices that had been out of stock at the local hobby shops for months, if not years. It was where I picked up my first-press edition of the Glenn commemorative reworking of the Atlas booster & launch pad. " 'Everything Is Go.' I bought mine at my uncle's clothing store...who had the monopoly on all the Cub Scout/Boy Scout uniforms sales in town. And, Mr. Robert Mosley- you have my thanks for bringing tears of nostalgic remembrance to an old Irishman's eyes on St. Patrick's Day. Thanks again... I owe you one. Pat |
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:43:28 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: And, Mr. Robert Mosley- you have my thanks for bringing tears of nostalgic remembrance to an old Irishman's eyes on St. Patrick's Day. ....Aw, it was the least I could do for my favorite Mick :-) OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: Seriously, in 11th grade I developed severe dandruff (I tried a brand new shampoo, Pert, and within hours, the flakes started falling and haven't stopped), and after 16 years of random treatments, I found scraping my skull once or twice a week stopped it. I started going gray at age 12; the Jr. highschool girls were always wondering where I got that magnificently even "frost job". :-) Pat |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: imagination. Depends on how hungry you are. I don't really care about fishing, so if I was hungry, and had one available, I'd consider dropping a grenade. Works fine on fish; the way to down ducks is to emplace a six foot long piece of 8" cast iron plumbing pipe in the ground near a slough, stick around a quarter pound of gunpowder in the base of it, and pile in some rags for tamping- and around 3 pounds of screws, bolts, and small scrap metal on top of the wadding... scare the ducks airborne from the far side of the slough, so that they fly at low altitude overhead, and set the ******* off. With luck, you can down 25 to 50 ducks at a time- what this lacks in sportsmanship it more than makes up for in efficiency. Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... * This morphed into Gibson's, then Pamida, then moved, then died when K-Mart arrived. My wife and I honeymooned in Albuquerque. On the way back to Florida, we found a Gibson's in Texas. Presaging what I do now for a living, there was a rack of do-it-yourself legal kits, which I naturally stocked up on. I'm tempted to blow off my pending meeting with OM and see if the store's still open. |
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"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message . .. "Andrew Gray" wrote in message . .. The leverage to *get* an acceptable contract is what I suspect Ami is referring to The error is in assuming leverage on an individual basis- the *market* has leverage. If a business can fill a position for less than what you are willing to accept, then clearly what you want is more than what the market is willing to pay. If *nobody* was willing to work for what was offered, then the employer would have to either raise the ante or live without the labor. If there is someone more desperate or willing than you, then *you* need to reconsider your position. However that assumes an elastic market (I think that is the correct term). If, on the other hand, you have a small town where a high percentage of the jobs are with the same employer, you have a situation where the employer can pay less in wages because the cost to the potential employees of finding work elsewhere is higher (relocation, movement away from family), especially if the employee is dependent on either income from other family members or additional jobs. There is a reason why, back in the 19th century, company towns were able to exploit (by an reasonable term) their workers. |
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message ... From my own experience, a fun workplace keeps the medical costs down because nobody's stressing out unless it's absolutely necessary, and even then not for long. It didn't work for Tom Hanks in "Joe vs the Volcano". |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... With luck, you can down 25 to 50 ducks at a time- what this lacks in sportsmanship it more than makes up for in efficiency. *Then*, one can wait to see what that many duck carcasses will attract, and have at it. Sportsmanship, hell- I'm hungry! |
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