zben@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/28/83)
these items comes along, worker A immediately runs to ter boss and asks what to do, interrupting the ostensibly more important work te is doing. Worker B, on the other hand, shows some creative initiative and puts ter a** on the line by handling it terself. Now, to an outside observer (read scientist) it might seem that worker A and worker B are doing the same job (at least their job descriptions are identical). But, come promotion time, guess which one is going to be promoted to that supervisor slot? I didn't introduce that snake statistic to this net. Don't you realize that by exalting the group-statistic you demean the individual? Any of us could name many fine responsible intelligent wopersons (utcsstat!laura and umcp-cs!liz spring immediately to mind) but when you talk about national averages quantity overrides quality. And I'm afraid its my sad experience that in the long statistical average worker A is likely to be female and worker B is likely to be male. My girlfriend is terribly underpaid. Her job description is a data entry clerk, but she's the one who has memorized the PDR and who walks the truly horrid claims through the computer for her whole unit. And yet the simpering airhead who works next to her and passes the buck on all the hard claims is paid exactly the same. That just ain't fair. OK, so women just aren't psychologically built to put their a** on the line. I think that is a survival trait and that its us men who are crazy! Why do we insist on playing such asinine macho games and taking the holy crusade to a new company every two years? For the money I guess. God help us. Ben Cranston (zben) Appendix: te ==> ( he | she ) ter ==> ( his | her )
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (10/03/83)
Ben, I put my ass on the line. What is the use of believing in *ANYTHING* if you are not willing to do this? What sort of satisfaction can you derrive from an existance where nothing is that valuable? Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura