begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:29:32PM -0700: > On 10/22/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Wanting _a_ job doesn't mean you have to accept a crap job. > > This is a statement that is simply often untrue. Not everyone, > especially, elsewhere (in space or time) on this planet, has > the luxury of not accepting a crap job. Of course you might > say that they can let their family go homeless or hungry.
Indeed. Mortgages make prostitutes of us all. > Do you really think that most people who take "crap jobs" > do so because they have the alternative to take a much > better job? No, I don't. But the best people for a job that I'm offering would presumably be good enough so that they wouldn't have to put up with a job where they're treated like crap. When I say "crap job", I'm not referring to the task one's being asked to perform, but rather, how one is treated when performing said task. (Contrast with 'unpleasant job', which can actually be quite rewarding, and perhaps even fun, if approached with the right mindset.) When things get bad enough to where people *can* be forced to take a crap job, there's little to no incentive to give value in return. > Opportunity is not that widely distributed. This is me, not disagreeing. -- Rebellion is bred from dissatisfaction. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
