Jed, you have not been in the workforce lately. The forty hour week is a joke. 50 hours per week is the norm and take some work home too. It adds up to 60 + hours. Do you time sheet at home. We made it much more complex with a lot of codes to help you squander away your personal time. Do your travel report at home. Add justifications for travel, get competitive pricing on air fare, on your own time. Stay and do company related things, that can't be directly charged to the costumer after hours. Carry a dangle and be on call 24/7. Come in when an where we need you. Oh travel time, are you kidding you want compensated, don't you want to work, it was only a 60 mile drive. They man in the next state got sick, cover for him. The boss man needs way more than 25 times what you make. You are worth less than that machine. We are looking for new ways to squeeze you. Maybe we can use your computer, your car, and your cell phone. Can we get you wife to pitch in? That's the new reality for the workers in this global environment; for this others it is section 8 housing. Its always your turn, fair went out the window long time ago.
Frank I disagree. I think unemployment is a function of automation. In the 20th century work hours were reduced from 60 or 80 hours per week to 40, with Saturdays off. If that had not happened unemployment would be unimaginably high. Unless we cut back more hours now, to 30 hours per week, unemployment will remain high. There are more unemployed people in China than the entire U.S. workforce. Sooner or later machines will do just about everything people do, unemployment will be ~90%, and the whole basis of economic theory and practice will go out the window. We will have to find a way to give everyone goods and services for free. - Jed -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:28 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Doh ! (slaps forehead) ! Jones Beene wrote: >Our continuing high unemployment rate is a symptom of energy >dependence more >than anything else. I disagree. I think unemployment is a function of automation. In the 20th century work hours were reduced from 60 or 80 hours per week to 40, with Saturdays off. If that had not happened unemployment would be unimaginably high. Unless we cut back more hours now, to 30 hours per week, unemployment will remain high. There are more unemployed people in China than the entire U.S. workforce. Sooner or later machines will do just about everything people do, unemployment will be ~90%, and the whole basis of economic theory and practice will go out the window. We will have to find a way to give everyone goods and services for free. - Jed
