Getting a good job

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Eric J. Korpela wrote: [someone unquoted elsewhere write:] That borders on foolishness. People have lives and committments outside of the paid workplace, and to expect people to work more than somewhere between 32 to 40 hours per week, not counting the time it takes to drive to and from the workplace, is greed and inconsideration on the employers' behalf. When sleep is reduced, then it can have a negative impact on one's health - talke a look, there's plenty of evidence out there in the psychophysiological damage that this can cause. Caffeine should never be relied on as a substitute for needed sleep. Gastric ulcers, auto accidents, immune system impairment leading to increased incidences of cancer, etc. are amongst the results of not getting enough sleep. I've worked with people who continuously drank coffee, bragging about their levels of consumtion of it, making a big deal over how little sleep they were getting, as if it made them look important. Do such people realize that they're boasting about destroying their health? That's not a luxury, it's called protecting one's life, and if enough people did it, companiues would be forced to like it or else; that is, if there was a way to not allow them to keep hiring cheap foreign labor to displace employees who are citizens of the country where they're working (e.g. the droves of H/J visa employees being hired by U.S. employers to replace U.S. citizens who won't work long hours for peanuts). Perhaps we need to tar and feather a few politicians; can't think of a much better solution at the moment. -- R. D. Davis rdd(a)perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900