From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Newsgroups: soc.men
Subject: Re: Companies can afford it, right?
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:52:21 GMT
Reply-To: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <34028@unix.SRI.COM> maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
>splash. But at what cost? The reaon our society is rapiing the
>resources of the whole world is that all we think of is progress and

	I submit that you can be focused yet remain aware of the world around
you.

>If you don't get home until midnight on Christmas eve, who helps the kids 
>trim the tree?

	I'm a Buddhist. ( :-) ) Seriously, what happens is on those kinds
of days I go in very early so that I can leave earlier, or <gasp> :-)
take a half day off and work Sunday.

>your singlemindedness implies that a whole big part of life is worthless. 

	Focus is all important in life: "The hunter that chases two
rabbits catches none".  Now, which rabbit is more valuable?  The
one that the hunter catches, or the one that runs away?  (To the hunter,
I mean... )

	
> Sheesh. Your stock options. Pardon me if I say that I've seen a lot
>of lives wrecked or at least of lot of lives warped because of stock
>options. I've seen people sacrifice honor, friendship, honesty,
>and more for stock options....

	:-) I'm not worried.  It's possible to plan (or hope?) for the 
future and still be friendly and honest.  Really, now.  What does it avail
a man, to gain a fortune but lose his soul?  (Well, according to some twerp
on Usenet mine's already gone... :-)  Why do you think a few years of
dedicated hard work will destroy me and mine?  We can't all be famous 
rock musicians who play a few dozen gigs a year and spend the rest of the
time diving in Hawaii... (Right , Jerry ? :-)

>You know what's ironic? You're just a peg in hole, wharfie.

	Yeah, but it's *my* hole. :-)   And I'll bet that's what they told
all those guys with low badge numbers over at Microsoft too:  "Hey, why bust
your ass for some faceless corporation that'll probably lay you off in a year?"

>Like I said, I've been there. I've tried it. 

	Sorry it didn't work for you.  You're still welcome to come visit
us in a few years:  Watch for Morning Dew Farms organic products, coming
soon to better stores everywhere!  (Well, ok, in a _few_ _years_ .. :-)

>that life is what is happening to everyone else while you
>spend all your time at work.

	Listen, since y'all are so worried about me, I'll tell you about
this weekend:

	Fri 7AM: arrive at work.
	Fri 6:30 PM leave work, drive to Beaumont (5 hrs).  
	Sat.8AM Drive to Kountze, get out and walk around in
	swamps all day, searching for whorled pogonia and southern
	twayblade.  (we didn't find any, but we saw 5 kinds of violets,
	clematis picherii, and a whole bunch of pitcher plants.  Also
	hoary azalea)
	Sat 6PM go back to Beaumont.  Get room at Rodeway Inn, go to bed
	and screw like bunnies.
	Sun 9AM (actually 10, 'cuz o' the time change) Get up, eat bad
	waffles at motel diner, climb in car and hope that rain eases up
	as we get west.
	Sun 3PM Stop at Alabama Indian reservation to look at stuffed
	bobcats and fake beads.  
	Sun 6PM Give up on hiking and start to drive home.  Stop to get
	speeding ticket on Rt 79.
	Sun 8PM Realize that speeding ticket flustered navigator, and that
	we're in goddam Waco...
	Sun 10PM Get back to Round Rock.  Make pina coladas (ick, sweet
	drinks... Anita likes 'em tho...) drink, listen to weather to see
	if flash flood watch/tornado watch is canceled yet, go to bed.
	Mon 6AM go back to work

	Sounds like fun, no? :-) :-)

>thinking that YOU and you alone will make this a success. I also know

	WE and WE alone if EVERYONE does their part will make this a 
success.  

>I'd let the company fold and play with the kids more.

	Yow!  Glad ya don't work here...  I wanna get rich so I can buy
a farm, ya see...
				"like the Doo-Dah man once told	 me,
			         'Gotta play your hand. Sometimes your
				 cards ain't worth a dime, if ya dont lay
				 em down' "