At 12:36 27-1-01 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>>Actually, many corporations are kept up and running by those >unskilled,
>>minimum wage people. If it weren't for low-ranking >employees like
>>receptionists, cleaning staff and cafeteria staff, >not much would be done
>>anymore.
>
>Well, I'm independent now, but when I worked for a corporation, that
>number was way down. For 1000 employees, there were about 3-4 full time
>receptionists. Cleaning was done at night, so I can't really speak to
>that. But, there weren't that many people cleaning a big office
>building. As for cafeteria workers, we had some, but only about 20% of
>the folks ate there. Most went out or brown bagged it like I did.
It's not the number of people that matters, it's the impact their work has.
It doesn't matter if you have 4 or 40 people on the cleaning crew -- if
they don't work for a week, you end up with a rather dirty office. Would
you want to work in such an office? I certainly wouldn't.
>>or your office building doesn't get cleaned for a week,
>
>you'd outsource to another cleaning company. There are scores of those
>companies waiting for business. Or, if push came to shove, you'd get your
>kids to come in after school for an hour to clean up.
You can do that when you have your office at home, or perhaps when you own
some small store. But in general, businesses can't "get their kids to come
in after school" -- you know, laws against child labor and things like that...
>>or there is nobody around to make coffee for a week?
>
>Huh? Y'all don't make your own coffee at work? The typical rule in the
>US is whoever took the last cup makes the next pot.
Actually, most companies here have coffee vending machines these days; the
"coffee lady" is, sadly, almost completely a thing of the past now. It
rarely ever happens that employees make coffee themselves, especially if
they're skilled, well-paid workers. This, of course, because they are too
expensive to let them spend time on such unskilled tasks like making coffee.
Jeroen
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