Hmm, No guesses how to answer that lol. You get what you pay for holds true.
Derek Walton On 4/13/2010 6:01 PM, Brian O'Connell wrote: > Employers in the U.S. seldom tolerate "lost" hours unless it has an immediate benefit to the bottom line. This attitude is very strong towards 'ancillary' engineering activities such as regulatory. The time lost is yours. > > Quote from the boss of a former colleague: > "xxx, you need to do a presentation at the yyy. Tight schedule. Probably can write it in a weekend or two. Let me see your first cut Monday." > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org]On Behalf Of Doug > > Smith > > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:44 PM > > To: Ken Wyatt > > Cc: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > > Subject: Re: [PSES] IEEE PSES 2010 Call For Papers > > > > Hi Ken and the group, > > > > The $10,000 is an estimate of the time to write the final > > version of a > > paper in terms of considerable lost work time. Employees get > > paid their > > salary to write the paper, no loss of income. > > > > Doug > > > > On 4/13/10 12:53 PM, Ken Wyatt wrote: > > > Oh really? I believe just the opposite... > > > > > > If the speaker mumbles, has lousy slides or poorly thought out and > > > executed progression of thoughts...THAT'S off-putting to me. > > > > > > Doug, where did you get the $10,000 figure? I briefly > > looked at the > > > two links, but didn't see anything. Are you saying > > presenters need to > > > give $10,000 up front just to have their abstracts > > considered? Or, is > > > this the estimated time& effort to produce a paper that > > hasn't yet > > > been published? > > > > > > Cheers, Ken > > > ___________________ > > > Kenneth Wyatt > > > Wyatt Technical Services LLC > > > Woodland Park, CO > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to<emc-p...@ieee.org> > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. > > Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html > List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Scott Douglas<emcp...@socal.rr.com> > Mike Cantwell<mcantw...@ieee.org> > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Jim Bacher:<j.bac...@ieee.org> > David Heald:<dhe...@gmail.com> > > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
