Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 7 Nov 2024 19:57:43 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <1190130485.752353610.782141.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <38b4c4eb-2ab5-df94-0baa-c2d7fcdda60d@example.net> <7c5edef0-d4ec-a8fc-3f70-8ffa2a2b1df0@example.net> <2132040480.752628420.877076.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pxQStCVQmFpiz7wO4fjGHgaSOzNhDp8Dt2wZR7E/I05BRI6zW7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:31pnXLsKsiKfx76hX8wzuZIAYQ0= sha256:GH4THKtBZRKly1SXVnnz0QQT3Xz4/I8vqNZbPntbVUc= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228715 comp.os.linux.misc:60752 On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 11:48:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > It comes as a surprise to us educated middle class twonks, conditioned > from birth to strive, to realises that there are huge numbers of people > in the world who want no more than to be told what to do, get paid for > doing it, spend it on renting a house, having a family, drinking beer > and shagging the wife. At one company I worked for my lead tech asked if we would support a women's softball team. No problem. We'd spring for the uniforms, equipment, field fees, and so forth. The rub was they also wanted us to run the team. We had the same problem with lead positions. The girls (okay, shoot me) were competent and hardworking but very few wanted to assume any sort of authority even for more bucks in their pay envelope.