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: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: billy@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless) Subject: Jobs (was: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/28 Message-ID: <65mrlo$fmu$2@NNTP.MsState.Edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293428879 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> <65iks2$o6t@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <347DEB34.1A90@mWilden.com> Organization: MSU - Center for Air/Sea Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <347DEB34.1A90@mWilden.com>, Mark Wilden writes: |> 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. Money is certainly *a* major reason that people are employess, but not always *the* major reason. I've turned down job offers that would have nearly doubled my salary, because my current jobs offer other satisfiers that are more important to me. |> 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. I think in general this is true, but there are exceptions. There's at least one guy who works for me who is worth a lot more than he's paid. (Well, duh, this is a university!) Luckily for me, he likes working here as much as I do!