Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Tchiowa on 21 Jul 2006 02:51 Go Fig wrote: > Is waiting up to NINE months to see an allergist in the public interest? > > From today's news- > > NHS 'lets down allergy patients' > > > People with allergies often feel let down by the NHS, and can wait > months to see a specialist, a government review of services has found. <snip> > Story from BBC NEWS: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/5199862.stm Apparently the dental care side is working equally well. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/07/news/teeth.php "But the problem is serious. Kelly's predicament is not just the result of cigarettes and possibly indifferent oral hygiene, though he said he is careful to brush once a day. Instead, it is due in large part to the deficiencies in Britain's state-financed dental service, which, stretched beyond its limit, no longer serves everyone and no longer even pretends to try". Did someone say something about "guaranteed medical care"? Or say that Socialized Medicine wasn't failing? French citizens dying because it's too hot? Where is the medical care for them? And what else in France? http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1992/ad920170.html "The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that between 1983 and 1985, French government health officials knowingly gave AIDS-contaminated blood transfusions to patients because national blood bank officials determined it would be too expensive to replace the tainted blood." Got to keep that price of medical care down. Quality of life and all.
From: Mxsmanic on 21 Jul 2006 04:40 Tchiowa writes: > Of course it does. If you pay someone 12 months pay for 11 months work > then your productivity suffers. You mistake mere presence for productivity. In most skilled jobs, productivity is largely uncorrelated with presence. What matters is how much you get for the money you pay, not the number of hours your employees spend sitting in an office. > So you're lucky if you get 10 months of > productivity from him in 12 months. Exactly what is a "month of productivity"? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 21 Jul 2006 04:42 Tchiowa writes: > French citizens dying because it's too hot? Where is the medical care > for them? Dying from the heat doesn't require medical care; it requires air conditioning. There is no effective treatment or prophylaxis for hyperthermia other than refrigeration. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: The Reid on 21 Jul 2006 04:48 Following up to Tchiowa >Global warming has been going on for thousands of years. Species loss >is no greater than any other time in history and is offset by species >gain. Oil reserves will last at least another century by which time we >can easily have alternate energy sources (if the environmental nuts >will allow it, that is). > >So where is your warning? stop belieng fairy tales? -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: The Reid on 21 Jul 2006 04:48
Following up to Tchiowa >Standard practice in the US is a year vacation after a year's work, 2 >weeks after 2 years, 3 weeks after 5 years, 4 weeks after 10 years. > >> IIRC a month is now legal *minimum* in the EU. > >And think about that for a minute. That much vacation for a new >employee? That's a high cost. so you accept now that Europe has more holiday time? Or are you still saying we don't? Meanwhile you have of course brainwashed yourselves into thinking its a terrible thing, but only where it diverges from US practice, (if all you care about is productivity why don't you stop all vacation?). -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |