Re: If you want a job... (was Re: [Nolug] Fwd: We need a Cisco Wi-Fi ...)

On 04/10/2011 12:56 PM, Clint Billedeaux wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Charles Paul<charles.paul@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>> You work when the person offering the job wants you to work. Or start
>> your
>>> own company and work for yourself. Or go on welfare and complain about
>>> having to look for a job.
>>
>> Please don't bring your politics into this list.
>>
>
> I was about to go off about being called a welfare recipient, but yeah.
> politics is useless.

I did *not* call you a welfare recipient.

>
> I'm asking questions to see if anyone has insight that might lead to a
> solution to those questions, and I get called lazy by someone who didn't
> even bother to understand that I HAVE AN 8-5, M-F job and these 1099 jobs
> tend to want you drop what you're doing and go fix their problem as if you
> have NOTHING else to do in the world but they don't want to pay someone to
> be on standby.
>

Supply and demand.

If the supply of people who could *sufficiently* perform the task were
limited, then you could demand higher pay and better work rules.

But there isn't a limited supply of such workers, so they have you over
a barrel.

-- 
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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