I'm so glad I'm (reasonably comfortably - thanks to husband's foresight, not my own) retired and don't have to deal in today's nasty, brutish labor market. It seems society is ever more polarized into the well-off (what's YOUR problem) and the exploited poor (can't afford to take a day off...gotta work two jobs...)
Even PhDs I know working at universities aren't actual employees, but contract workers - worked very hard for as little $ as the employer can give them. (And they like teaching, and have futile dreams of eventual tenure, and no other job prospects in their fields, and so accommodate the employer.) I used to work for a temp agency because I didn't much care for my field of endeavour (secretarial) and at least I wasn't stuck in the same place forever. At one place they liked me, it was pretty bearable, and they hired me - but didn't chisel me down. As mentioned, the company pays a lot more to the agency than the temp ever sees, so the company is still getting a deal if they give the temp more money as an employee than she was getting from the agency. Not to gloat, but I've heard American friends taking jobs they weren't keen on, after temping, just for the health plans... We in Canada don't have to worry about that. (We all pay for health thru our taxes, and, while grumbling, manage quite well. Here in what is officially the poorest county in the country [tho I would have thought that someplace in the Maritimes would have claimed that honour] there seems to be no shortage of boats and all-terrain vehicles and such.) (And despite the propaganda about, shudder, socialized medicine, and our own headlines about long waits and what-not, I and mine have always got prompt, excellent service, from cat scratches to palliative care...) _________________________________________________________________ Dont waste time standing in linetry shopping online. Visit Sympatico / MSN Shopping today! http://shopping.sympatico.msn.ca Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
