you've just done another piece for the book - just assemble what you've sent out. I don't know how much material there is, but it adds up. Include the material on linux/programming. Why not? A book might just come to you; I don't think you have to know how.
- Alan On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, James Morris wrote: > On 28 April 2011 16:30, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> write a book about this. about your experience; you're being torn apart. >> you write amazingly well. i'm serious. alan > > writing a book doesn't really appeal. for a start i don't know how. > and then i don't think there's enough material. most days are average. > it's not every day i dread going to work. normally i just get on with > it. listening to music at work helps. i don't think i'm being torn > apart, at least not by any external factors. i might tear myself > apart, but sometimes i think it's just for entertainment, just for > something to be happening. i tore myself apart today at work. i didn't > have music to listen to. yesterday someone was caught smoking outside > of their break time, during production time. an email was circulated > and printed out. the person from the previous shift i took over the > machine of said the person caught had 'spoiled it for the rest of us'. > i told him it was management who spoiled things for us. but thought > the spoiling probably starts higher than that. near 9pm i was cheered > thinking about the royal wedding tomorrow. sure i don't really care, > but, hell, i'm going to celebrate it even if only celebrating the > extra time away from work. Making this week a three day working week, > giving the second four day weekend. i pretend to be dumb, i pretend to > work slow. i pretend to shutdown everything unnecessary to perform the > job. movements are laboured, i imagine i'm hard work to watch. i want > to be hard work to watch. i pretend to zone out. pretend to dream. > pretend to be depressed. pretend to not care. movements lack > exactitude. slack motion. optimized for least effort. minimum wage > minimum effort. once management have left somewhere around 6pm and > i've had my break, i am more relaxed. i speed up again. only to walk > away from the machine and let the buckets pile up. grab a coffee. then > work fast to catch up again. walk off to go to toilet. work fast to > catch up again. sit down watch the buckets pile up. work fast to catch > up again. i'm fed up of this. the same thing, over and over and over > and over and over and over and over. plastic things i pulled out the > machine yesterday, one every minute or so, sell for ?16.99. i don't > know exactly how many i made yesterday. Say 300. That's ?5000 sale > price. What a con. > > >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, James Morris wrote: >> >>> ten years ago i graduated from university with an art degree. >>> i was earning a good ?1 or more above the uk national minimum wage. >>> now i am earning 7 pence above the uk national minimum wage. >>> the jobs have got worse: >>> i used to be able to sit, now i must stand. >>> i used to get one half hour break and two 10 minute breaks. >>> now i get one half hour break. >>> last year i got 2 five minute breaks and 2 twenty minute breaks. >>> now i get one half hour break. >>> last year i was paid for breaks. >>> this year i am not. >>> last year i was paid shift allowance. >>> this year i am not. >>> similar job similar company similar industry but different. i thought >>> it was bad last year. >>> down down down down. >>> at least i can look forward to october and the national minimum wage >>> increase. increases above what i'm earning. i suspect i won't be >>> earning more than the minimum wage then. >>> filling the world with plastic crap, that's something to be proud of. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> == >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qz.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qz.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
