Re: More Blathering

From: CyberDroog (CyberDroog_at_starfleet.gov)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:46:23 GMT

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:02:08 GMT, "J. Random User"
<nospam@nospamnosiree.com> wrote:

>"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@starfleet.gov> wrote in message
>news:2h94nv4kr2k75avvooqorbks4iamfh0jmr@4ax.com...
>> Perfect! That leaves you free to start your own business where nothing
>> gets done since the employees are free to spend their day surfing the web
>> and chatting.
>
>Nope, but they'd definitely be allowed to do whatever they like as regards
>dress, hours, and surfing, *so long as they get their work done well and
>on time*. I never said I spent my days surfing the web and chatting.

Then you are doomed from the start. Paying people who aren't productive is
a losing proposition.

Yeah, yeah, you're going to say you get your work done and done well...
Fine, then you can go home and not be paid for the remainder of the day.
It's not your time, it belongs to your employer.

>>
>> You are a victim... of policies that don't match your ethics... Isn't
>> every criminal?
>
>Except that my ethics aren't hurting anyone. Even some criminals' aren't --
>for
>example, people that smoke pot, or take even harder drugs, on occasion and
>limit their usage and it's effects on their lives.

Apparently Nike thought your ethics are harmful to their business. Most
businesses do in similar circumstances.

>> And you take full responsibility for your posting and all that followed...
>> but you're a victim... hmmm.
>
>Life is full of interesting paradoxes, my boy.

It even more full of whiners. 

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MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the 
quality of general expediency. 
  - Ambrose Bierce

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