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To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/9/1998 6:51:00 AM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 116791

Right on Alex....

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/9/1998 8:13:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 116791

Alex - along the same lines we have seen chain stores copping out from all responsibility for their employees by the practice of hiring temporary labour at near minimum wages all presumably to avoid paying fringe benefits - Zellers in Canada is a good example. I don't know where Wallmart stands in this spectrum. In the city in particular young professionals are expected to work impossibly long hours - impossible because of the effect on family life. All for the mantra of money and 'getting ahead', becoming a partner, etc. I read an article about married female lawyers across the country who wanted part time work to balance their family life. In practice, a part time job for a female lawyer still means at least 40 hours a week! Full time can mean 90 hours. So we hear all of this crap about 'quality time' with kids, a sort of justification for the mad mad mad world which they can't get off. E.

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/9/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116791

Alex, RE: Al Dunlaps taking care of themselves Very good post. rh

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/9/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Karen E Hoof	Respond to of 116791

Amen Alex! Karen

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/9/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Respond to of 116791

I disagree Alex. People in this country have a lot. I once travelled off the beaten path high into the mountains of Western Guatemala. As the guest of some local campesinos, I was presented a fried egg. As I was eating, I noticed how the children were losing hair due insufficient protein in their diet. The glass here is half full, not half empty.

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/10/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

Never ending downward spiral? The working man never had it better. When you have things good, that's when the grief you went through to get there is forgotten. You have plenty so you feel ok to go out on strike for more . Strike against the capitalist pigs. Tear it all down. The only thing that gets torn down is that which the working man has constructed. Now the foreigners will do it. Strike against the foreigners. How dare they work for less. How dare they out compete us. They are by nature inferior so they shouldn't be doing that. Strike for fairness. Strike down the foreign infidels. Sorry. it won't work, but the working man will try to work it, so that the downside will be visited yet again. No wonder that the "ins" take advantage of such stupidity.

To: Alex who wrote (12745)	6/10/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: paul ross	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116791

Chainsaw is one of my heroes. He had the courage to trim the fat off the companies that were about to go down, saving the stock price for all the shareholders. Are people owed a job for life? Show me the contract these people signed that says they have a job for life. This is the real world, be own your toes or it will eat you up. Forty $$$/ hour to put a fender on a Ford? Give me a break. The fat needed trimming and people like Chainsaw had the courage to do it. And he got paid handsomely for it. Was it illegal, immoral? He provides a much needed service to society by getting rid of the dead wood, serving to allow each of us to see we must rely only on what's deep within all of us.