You have to take into consideration that a lot of
Posted By: SM on 2005-09-08
In Reply to: Restructioning cannot happen over night. - don't get it
people did not have a way to leave. If the evacuation were so manditory, how come they did not evacuate the hospitals? There are just way too many sides to all this. I think the blame is in everyone's court.
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For me, a major consideration is, would you be
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Another consideration with children....
I mostly agree with you. I think one has to also consider one's own working habits along with the child's personality. Some kids just require more attention than others and I think they suffer if they don't get it, and one can't work and actively mother at the same time. In my case, I get focused and react irritably when drawn off task; it's okay now when I can post a sign up that I'm busy and on deadline, but it wasn't fair to them when they were small, and so they were in daycare at least part of the time as second shift was not an option for me. Also, my youngest was much more independent than my oldest and needed less one-on-one interaction (so long as he had those tinkertoys around!).
It's such an individual choice; I don't think anyone can say daycare is always better or at home is always better. I think as long as people take everyone's needs into consideration (including mommy's needs, which too often get shortchanged!) and act on that, then everyone will benefit.
taking all into consideration, they both suck.
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Do you give your employees that same consideration?
If they log onto your system in the morning during their scheduled hours and there is no work or the system is down, do you pay them anyways? Do you require them to check in every 15 minutes without pay to see if the work is there? Or do you expect them to take less pay or work extra hours to make up the difference?
Good points, another consideration is (sm)
whether or not a service does correspondence work. I worked for a small MTSO that began doing a 65-char line before most of the others, and she chose to do it because we had clients who were requesting certain fonts and type sizes. Going to a 65-char and adjusting rates meant that she could offer different fonts and styles and the pay would be fair across the board.
It was funny, though, we always had certain clients who wanted tiny little type fonts no matter how many times we explained to them that it wasn't saving them any money. Didn't matter to us typing it; we were in WP51 and so it looked the same, the only difference being it "ran off" the right side of the page and made proofing harder!
One consideration is health insurance and lack thereof because
1 major illness and the money would be yesterday. It seems like a huge amount but really not in this age and time, good but still not what I call huge. I am older and I think wiser when it comes to money issues because I first would want to ensure the most important things covered- you could retire, I wouldn’t on this amount- if retiring you would have to pay out of pocket for really big expenses such as health care. I saw a program 1 day on winners of huge amounts, millions to be exact, and only 1 could account for any money and their spending it wisely - all the others squandered and had really nothing to show. Take your time and think it through clearly before quitting, retiring, spending it all, blowing it, investing, etc.
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