marla@Sun.COM (Marla Parker) (09/20/88)
In article <5345@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> att!mhuxu!mls@ee.ecn.purdue.edu writes: > >Just a further note supplementing this mention of Philip Kraft....... >...exercised in the Germanic engineering model -- pay a lot for someone fresh >out of a technical school (fawn on them, even; make them see themselves as >superior to anyone else -- it keeps them from noticing what's going on) and >then after a few years, plateau them in a position where they are essentially >stuck for 40 years until retirement. The realization that they are being >exploited dawns so slowly that they never manage to think about opposing it How is some one who is paid alot fresh out of school being exploited? Or do you mean they are exploited after being plateaued? If so, then is that what is hidden from the freshmen? "keeps them from noticing what's going on", that after a few years they're going to get stuck? (in a plateau :-) I feel like I'm missing the point here. Marla Parker (415)336-2538 {major backbone}!sun!marla marla@sun.com