RE: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay

["Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>]

I wonder if there arenât contributing factors, such as computerization, like we see at the checkout counter at the grocery store. I remember when checkers entered everything by hand and had the prices of a great deal of product memorized. I wonder if banking has undergone a similar transformation and this, rather than gender politics, is what has driven down wages. If this is the case, then the analogy would pertain only if a methodology comes along that makes tech writing as easy as running a bar code across a scanner and counting change. I'm thinking that Wikihelp is a step in that direction.

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From: techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Suzette Leeming
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay

Bank tellers.

This profession used to be a professional one, and people used to be able to support their families in this line of work.  Bank tellers now earn a lot less (usually $10-$15/hr), are often part time jobs with few benefits or job security, and may or may not be related to the fact that this once primarily male-dominated profession is now predominately a female profession (since WW2).

Suzette Leeming

2012/1/31 Milan DavidoviÄ <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:01 PM, William Sherman 
> <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > This may seem like it is only about one place offering a $10 per 
> > hour
> job,
> > but it only takes one crack in the dam left ignored for the whole 
> > dam to eventually fail.
>
> Assuming that the dam metaphor is applicable, that is. I'm not so 
> sure, but I might start to be convinced if you could point to an 
> analogous case in another line of work of "ignoring the dam".

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