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To: Solon who wrote (12603)	5/10/2002 12:18:48 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Still defending the public layabouts? Well, I suppose that's a step up from death-row murderers... :-)

To: Solon who wrote (12603)	5/10/2002 12:27:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I can tell you that the private sector is by and large a wasteland of mismanagement, inefficiency, and outright stupidity. While that may be true on your side of the pond, it certainly is not on this side. Many times the employees are drunk before the noon hour... And your credibility just took a bullet through the head. That has been true of no company I have ever worked at or any I am familiar with. In fact, at all of them, drunkeness oon company property is grounds for immediate dismissal. I would suggest that you learn the facts and then hew to them rather than post such drivel.

To: Solon who wrote (12603)	5/10/2002 12:59:27 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

My experience, and my wife's, would contradict your characterization of private companies. Perhaps you were merely unlucky.......

To: Solon who wrote (12603)	5/10/2002 7:40:19 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

a wasteland of mismanagement, inefficiency, and outright stupidity. The vast majority of them stumble along cutting a million corners to make up for useless ideas or uncompetitive initiatives. It is not necessary that they ultimately fall by the wayside. Many of them never do. But they deliver an ugly or fraudulent product and they move along to the next street. Many times the employees are drunk before the noon hour... Are you positive that you are not projecting the English class system on to US companies. This doesn't sound like any US companies I've worked for. Even our county (public) employees are better then that. We don't have any Dukes and Earls to provide the same kind of mismanagement you speak of. Drunk before noon, maybe if you are the owner or have a hereditary position as son of owner otherwise that's not likely here. Even government employees and union workers would have a difficult time getting away with that. Tom