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: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: billy@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless) Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/27 Message-ID: <65k6jg$e6b$2@NNTP.MsState.Edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293174682 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> Organization: MSU - Center for Air/Sea Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com>, Mark Wilden writes: |> billg@jk.pst.com wrote: |> > |> > The moment you |> > "check up" on someone, you have broken a potential trusting relationship. |> > Expect less than working toward common goals. |> 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... The goals don't have to be all that opposed. Enlightened managers realise that happy, fulfilled employees are much more productive. Enlightened employees realise that success for the company *can* mean success for them. (of course, the more enlightened management is, the more "success for the company" equates to "success for the employee".) Enlightened selfishness often can lead to behaviour that seems altruistic. [ yuk. I have an urge to set followups to alt.philosophy.objectivism..]