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You're absolutely right, Rosa. Those kind of hours have become a management fetish. I'm old enough to remember when folk were rushing around predicting everyone would work only a two-day week, or millions would be unemployed, due to the impact of computers and automation. Whatever happened to that, I wonder?
What's at the root here are screwed-up values. Valuing hard work is an integral part of the American mind-set, perhaps due to the country's puritan history and origins. Nothing wrong with that in itself, until people start looking at how hard the work is and thinking it might be worth even more if it was harder. Now it's no longer about working to get what you want, it's about working hard to show what a worthy person you are, whether it's needed or not.
How crazy is that?
Posted by: Adrian Savage | July 25, 2005 at 07:10 AM
Maybe we need to do something radical Adrian, like abolishing salaries altogether and paying everyone by the hour ... then again, there are all the self-employed who work these crazy schedules and don't pay themselves anything at all!
So you are right, it comes right back to our values driving our behavior.
Posted by: Rosa | July 25, 2005 at 09:45 PM