Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:31:15 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: The Dirty Jobs...




On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Sandi & Scott Spaeth wrote:

> OK, before I can personally follow this thread any longer, I need examples
> of good and bad jobs that will continue to exist in our theoretical
> anarchic society.  Because, the vast majority of good and bad jobs that I'm
> currently aquainted with would by definition be radically altered in that
> case (I simply can't see the current division-of-labor and
> inequitable-pay-scale fetishes continuing to exist).

My young--16-years of age--son Levi has been wirking at Indiana's largest
Kroger super-sized supermarket for about 3 months now.  He's in the union,
which seems to be non-existent except he gets a break every 2 hours
instead of every 4.  The management has completely ignored his
"availability sheet" which is what lists the hours he can wirk (WIRK?) on
and they've had the kid wirking 30 hours a week at a "part-time" job, so
he's been questioning the whole concept of wirk (WIRK?) lately.  

It was his observation they paid him because he was sacrificing part of
his teenaged life to wirk (WIRK?) there--a part he can never recover. 
It was my observation that ALL jobs are rotten, so rotten that everyone
requires payment just to perform them.

My guess is if those two observations are on-target, the difference
between "good" and "bad" jobs is mostly a matter of nit-picking.



carp