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Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay
Subject:Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay From:Suzette Leeming <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> Date:Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:30:40 -0500
The decline in respect for bank tellers began during WW2, when men went off
to war, and women took on these positions to help support their families.
This was long before computerization, ATMs, etc.
I don't dispute that computerization in recent years was a major factor,
but it all started with the fact that they could pay women less.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Porrello, Leonard
<lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Milan DavidoviÄ
> Cc: TECHWR-L mailinglist
> 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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