Klarinet Archive - Posting 000798.txt from 2001/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] hard work (was Band Geeks)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:24:04 -0400

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From: "Ann H Satterfield" <annhsatt@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] hard work (was Band Geeks)

> Thank you for making this point, Dee!
>
> The prejudice can start from any direction, it is too darn easy to not
> make the translation from seeing part of a job and experiencing all of a
> job.
>
> To continue with your example, engineers can get the attitude that the
> factory line workers don't work hard because there is little long term
> thought and planning and decision-making.

Exactly so. As an engineer I do see this happening. Then the factory line
workers quite cooperating with the engineers. I have always had and
continue to have a great deal of success dealing with people on the line
because I do respect the fact that their jobs are demanding. I also help
them to understand my job's demands by taking time to chit-chat their breaks
with them. For example, they might ask me if I'm going to the basketball
game tonight. I'll tell them that I'm not because I've got to miss it
because I have to catch a flight to the customer's or a supplier's. Not in
a complaining sense of course but that my job requires me to miss some
family and community activities.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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