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- From: spl@ivem.uucp (Steve Lamont)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.flame
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:47:12 GMT
- References: <BsyK9q.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Aug14.154616.7014@engage.pko.dec.com> <64360@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <64360@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
- +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.
- + ...
- +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 presume you go to the lavatory on your own time. Or do you wear
- "Depends" and dump them when you get home?
-
- I'll bet you're fun at the annual office picnic.
-
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