[PEN-L:227] Re: Re: more on work and family values

[Mike Yates <mikey+@xxxxxxxx>]

Friends,

I agree completely with Tom.  I have been working for 30 years and the
employer expects more work now than when I began.  I get so pissed off
at all of the deals being made, the hypocrisy, the lack of respect for
good work that i literally drive myself crazy, into such a depressed
state that it is hard to function.  So I take a day off.  It's a grand
idea and the more days you can take off the better.

I figure screw the bosses.  They take your life and expect you to smile.

michael yates

Tom Walker wrote:
>
> michael perelman wrote,
>
> >A couple of days ago NPR had a story about Native Americans being poor
> >employees because their family obligations are too strong.  They are too
> >prone to take time off to help a friend or family member in need.
>
> Yesterday, I went to a memorial service for a good friend who died in
> August. Today, my brother called to tell me that our cousin had taken her life.
>
> Those of us (the majority) who didn't die before we got old are getting old.
> Dying. Getting sick. Sick and tired.
>
> The last great hope is that the assholes who managed to avoid acquiring a
> tragic view through sheer inattentiveness will now have no choice as
> attrition wears down their Howdy-Doody masks.
>
> A couple of months ago, I was fiddling around with population pyramids,
> mortality rates and labour force participation rates. I stared at the screen
> and a grinning skull stared back at me -- the face of a generation.
>
> Remember the fabulous baby boom? It shot it's demographically unprecedented
> retirement savings wad into the financial firmament. What comes next is not
> quite as much. Not quite as much is never quite enough to call growth.
>
> The byrds took their words from Ecclesiastes. Turn, turn, turn. Nothing new
> under the sun. A time for everything. A time for love, a time for hate, a
> time for war, a time for peace, I swear its not too late.
>
> But not on company time. If you're going to die be sure to do it on your own
> time and come in the next day to make up for the time you've lost. This is
> where the Marx hits the pavement. Read the message from Michael and ask
> "what the fuck else is there?" money? trends? tenure?
>
> >A couple of days ago NPR had a story about Native Americans being poor
> >employees because their family obligations are too strong.  They are too
> >prone to take time off to help a friend or family member in need.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Walker
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