At 05:19 PM 11/15/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
When I was a resident, we calculated our hourly rate and found it was something between $2-5/hr, depending on how many hours we worked that week, so we *were* paid less than the janitors!
I dunno how much the custodial personnel at school get paid, but those of us who teach get a flat rate per semester hour taught, or simply so much for teaching a 4-semester-hour course, which may not sound too bad if you divide the number of classroom hours into the salary, but when you take into account preparation time, grading of papers, and all that other stuff, the effective hourly rate goes down rapidly . . .
(And whatever they got paid, they deserved more - hospital waste is _not_ fun to deal with, and can be deadly besides.)
Like when an amputated arm reaches out of the trash and grabs you . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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