From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Mark Wilden Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/27 Message-ID: <347DEB34.1A90@mWilden.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293243865 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> <65iks2$o6t@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> Organization: The Mark Wilden Company Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Craig Franck wrote: > > Mark Wilden wrote: > > > >The employer and employed are not working toward common goals. The > >employer wants to get the best work out of the employee at the lowest > >price. The employee wants to get the most money and benefits from the > >employer, preferably without working too many 80 hour weeks. > > > >These goals are opposed. The wonder of capitalism is that by each party > >working as selfishly as possible, progress is achieved. It's not always > >a pretty sight, though... > > That's a pretty bleak picture! I really don't think it's the general > case at all. I think it is to the degree that the employer and the > employee manage to establish common goals and priorities that things > can be said to be working out well. Yes, they do have common goals: for one thing, to keep the company in business. But people are employees and employers for one main reason: to make money. I think it's a rare employee who truly thinks he's paid what he's worth, and a rare employer who doesn't think the opposite.