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- From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Message-ID: <64360@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:14:51 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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- The whole "union problem" in a nutshell seems, to me, to come from the fact
- that too damn many people today seem to regard coffee breaks, etc., as some
- kind of a RIGHT, rather than a PRIVILEGE. I deem it an A/V (or any other)
- employee's DUTY to stay and stand by his equipment no matter HOW long or HOW
- "breakless" a stretch that amounts to, taking NO coffee break at all if that's
- what it comes to.
-
- I have no sympathy at all for some lazy butt who gets all irate or feels
- he's been "done wrong" if someone asks him to do what he's being PAID for!
- The whole idea is that when you go to work in the morning you're supposed to
- put in a full day's WORK, NOT a half-day's work plus a half-day's coffee-
- drinking! Sure, if a lull occurs and you can afford to take a coffee break
- without shirking your responsibilities, fine, do it -- but remember that this
- is a LUXURY, not a RIGHT. My personal objection to union intervention in the
- workplace is that all too often the unions encourage and inflate this idea
- of "entitlement to coffee breaks," a la the "45 minute rest breaks for
- every 15 minutes of driving" someone here mentioned in connection with
- Siggraph buses, when exactly the OPPOSITE is appropriate.
-
- Lest you think I'm Management, know ye that I am a worker myself and that
- I practice what I preach. I spend my eight- (usually MORE than eight) hour
- workday either at my desk or solving crises not far from it, NOT in the cafe-
- teria swilling coffee and scarfing doughnuts. (I also don't listen to a
- radio or tape player, and strongly disapprove both of those who DO, and of
- the deliberate encouragement of such distraction by radio stations which run
- promotions specifically targeted to those "listening to (us) at work." I
- wouldn't want my car worked on by a mechanic who had a radio blasting away
- while he was working on my car -- I can't believe he'd actually be paying
- full attention to his work on the car!) I would vote down any proposal to
- bring unions into MY workplace, specifically because I feel they would greatly
- interfere with productivity -- mine and others'!
-
- That's my two cents' worth; forgive me for posting it in an only very mar-
- ginally relevant place...
-
- ObGraphics: I've written a Mandelbrot Set display program for the Casio
- 7000 hand-held, graphics-display-capable calculator. Requests to the
- e-mail address below!
-
- Chris Chiesa
- Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
-