Anybody remember a 44 hour work week?
After I got out of high school in the late 1960's, I worked at a car dealership in the service department. For many years, it was the practice of local dealers to work five and a half days a week,...
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My father owned a printshop/office supply business for 30+ years in a town of less than 5,000. He also concentrated on doing mail order business cards before the days of printing your own with a...
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Yes, small businessmen typically spend more time on the job than a strict eight hour day. I was thinking more along the lines of hourly rate, grunt-level workers. Farmers, of course, would laugh at...
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Gary: I was just thinking about my youth in farming. I began, at age 8 working for my favorite uncle and aunt on their wheat and cattle farm from spring through late autumn - planting through harvest....
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i remember wanting more hours when i was hourly then becoming salery - never knew how many hours i would work in my lifetime but its never been a 40 hour week since and seldom a 5 day week , been...
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We had those long duty days where I was in Vietnam, as Ed describes. IIRC, we had a very loose morning work formation at 0700, then off to our battalion HQ until noon. We then broke for lunch for an...
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I STILL work longer than 40hrs....on salary and in the healthcare field~ been doing it for years!And most CNA's work 40+ hrs a week, I found out the hard way!!!!!!!the spoilt young people these days...
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Amen to the cell-phone issue, Kaintuck. During my final couple of years in the clinic people, usually adult women would answer their cell phones while I was examining them or their child(ren); if the...
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Telephone rudeness isn't new but it has certainly become magnified with the advent of cell phones. Before cell phones, it used to bug me that when I'd be in a retail business when the phone rang, I...
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Heard a BBC program many days ago about "tweet seats" in a live-production theater performance; an area where people who just, must tweet all about their special lives sit and tweet during the...
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Why do they bother to go to the performance? If all they wanted to do was sit and tweet, they could do that at home. Twits tweet.
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something about being seen tweeting i think , in todays annonimous society of tweets and texts i beleive there is a void of humanity missing from letter writing , face to face discussions and even...
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I remember that during the campaigning of 2008, Obumma tweeted and the crowd went wild. The liberal left press just could not say enough wonderful things about that. Obumma was right there in front of...
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