It's a result of a 30+ year employers rampage started by the Tories and
shamefully endorsed and continued by Labour then handing the baton to the
Con-Dems.
When John McDonnell -one of the pitifully few Labour MPs who would recognise a
principle if it hit them over the head - was interviewed on "Today" yesterday
morning pointing out that we need decent trade unions, untrammelled by the
tightest labour laws in Europe, a return to council house building and a public
policy based on the need of the many rather than the greed of the few, as
opposed to Milliband's shameful and demagogic scapegoating of foreign labour
and his sucking up to the bigots ( for once Gordon Brown was right!) you could
hear the interviewer's brain cells creaking as he tried to get his head round
this novel notion...
On a personal note anyone wanting great work done on websites, blogs etc should
ask James. He dug us out of deep shit with DVblog a few months back and did it
quickly, effectively, cheerfully (well , almost cheerfully) and didn't bankrupt
us either...
cheers
michael
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From: Rob Myers <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] "Where do I go from here?" Text talking about
employment...
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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