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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,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: Employment ethics (was: Your english sucks, ....) Date: 1997/12/02 Message-ID: <348483EA.6E43@mWilden.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294643755 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> <65iks2$o6t@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <34847825.60FF@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Organization: The Mark Wilden Company Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau 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. > > THIS employee (speaking) wants the satisfaction of creating or adding > something of quality to the world without losing contact with his wife > and children or seeing them hungry. And I'm sure I'm not the only one! > And I also believe (or I'd be working somewhere else) that my employer > wants the former (for profit's sake) and the latter (to keep a good > employee from leaving). True. However, you didn't address my message. Given a certain level of (continued) performance from an employee, the employer wants to get that for the lowest price. Given a certain level of (continued) performance, the employee wants to receive the highest price. It's those goals that are not common between employer and employed.