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Subject:RE: Respect (was Motivation For Overtime?) From:barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:40:29 -0700
9 to 5 with a full hour for lunch? You got it great! Ain't Canada great,
eh?
Here in the US I get to work from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and I work through
lunch.
My employer supplies all the free warm tap water I can drink.
Coffee is $1.50 (US) for a small cup; and with a salary of a
buck-three-eighty an hour, I try to cut back on coffee so I can pay the rent
and buy batteries for my mother's pace maker.
As far as respect: My boss comes into my cube, kicks the back of my unpadded
wooden chair and yells: "fifty pages a day, or you're out on the street!"
Jane, you have it great. You don't know how bad us "yanks" have it.
Sad Regards,
Barry (over-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated) Kieffer
Jane wrote:
...my employer will respect me as a worker (I don't
> like working for a company that assumes that if you're not at your desk
> from
> 9 to 5 with exactly one hour for lunch between 12:30 and 1:30, you're not
> working),
>
> If my employer respects me, the results may be that my employer will
> supply
> free cider and pizza if I have to work late,
