http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2006/11/like-asking-a-blind-person-to-describe-a-rose-2/ Two lawyers on law, legislation and liberty. And other stuff. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2006/11/like-asking-a-blind-person-to-describe-a-rose-2/#comment-9948 iain Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:16:29 +0000 http://legalsoapbox.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/like-asking-a-blind-person-to-describe-a-rose-2/#comment-9948 At one point in my life I had a job for one of the family restaurant chains I was employed as an assistant manager and I was repeatedly told that I could be manager of a restaurant within a year, if I worked hard ect. <br />Well at first I did that some nights was there until the wee small hours doing the accounting(not my strong point) I was giving the company about 20 hours a week unpaid overtime but one day I did the sums the company had employed a dozen other assistant managers at the same time as me and they had all been fed the same "manager in twelve months" there were nine restraints in our area. It was a no brainier that unless there was a mass resignation of managers I would not be in the race. I suppose this ramble is saying it gets back to working to live and not living to work. The latter state of being is the tool that is used to enslave so many on the lower rungs of any organization and frankly I think that there are more important things than clawing your way up the corporate ladder. At one point in my life I had a job for one of the family restaurant chains I was employed as an assistant manager and I was repeatedly told that I could be manager of a restaurant within a year, if I worked hard ect.
Well at first I did that some nights was there until the wee small hours doing the accounting(not my strong point) I was giving the company about 20 hours a week unpaid overtime but one day I did the sums the company had employed a dozen other assistant managers at the same time as me and they had all been fed the same “manager in twelve months” there were nine restraints in our area. It was a no brainier that unless there was a mass resignation of managers I would not be in the race. I suppose this ramble is saying it gets back to working to live and not living to work. The latter state of being is the tool that is used to enslave so many on the lower rungs of any organization and frankly I think that there are more important things than clawing your way up the corporate ladder.

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