On 06/23/2012 12:08 PM, marc wrote:
>
> This is a classic 'absolutist' mannerism regarding full-time employment.
> But as you mention further down in your journal, due to you being
> involved in the arts and being a critical individual, this makes you a
> non-candidate for the 'happy clappy' role of pure submission of your
> soul to any job. An issue that many are likely to share&  appreciate on
> this list. Do we really have to be banal robots to accepted into the
> labour market?

If we extended this managerial sense of entitlement to other 
professions, chefs would starve, electricians would have to sit in the 
dark, and accountants would be unable to go shopping.

The final nail in the coffin at my last but one job was them refusing to 
sign a copyright waiver for my work on FSF/GNU projects. They had no 
claim to that work anyway.

In my current job, my contract starts with some bullshit about devoting 
all my efforts to the company or something. I have a family, so I assume 
I am breaking the terms of my contract.

Alan Liu's "The Laws of Cool" is good reading for this. As is Scott 
Adams's "Dilbert Gives You the Business". And "Private Eye".

- Rob.
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