It wasn't meant to be fun for us. The aim was to make us work hard at school so we could go to Oxford, get drunk and jump off bridges for a few years, get a 3rd, then go out and administer a colony somewhere, take up with a native mistress, until we got so bored we blew our brains out.
-- Cheers, Bob (read too much Somerset Maugham as a teenager) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 05 November 2006 20:10 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: AW: Another Pentax Story > > Yes, they were very good at turning what should have been fun > into work > as I recall. And I do not think the work ethic was lost so > much as the > MBA's just decided that they were unwilling to pay for it. > Why bust your > ass for an employer when they are going to lay you off a > quick as they > will a ne'er-do-well? > > --graywolf > > > Bob W wrote: > > In my day, if you were at school you were a pupil. You became a > > student when you went to university. However, nowadays kids > at school > > seem to be called students too. Being at school was always > considered > > work. We were given course work, school work, home work, woodwork, > > metalwork, you name it. It was all work. Work, work, work. > We even had > > an ethic for it. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
