Word: owings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this era of corporate restructuring and downsizing, what do you think employers owe to their employees...
...think that companies should show a sense of caring toward the employees, but what do they owe them? Besides pay for completed work, not much. Too many people that I have hired and fired don't work and don't deserve anything. If a job can be done with considerably fewer people, then corporate downsizing proves there are too many folks collecting paychecks they don't deserve. DALE BOOTH Tucson, Arizona...
...monetary sense, neither employers nor their employees owe each other anything. If one wants to change the face of society, one cannot do so by mandating employer loyalty by fiat any more than mandating against employee theft and espionage have actually abolished these actions. What employers "owe'' is a matter of a person's perspective of what individuals owe one another: care and concern, or animalistic rivalry? TOM NADEAU Alhambra, California...
...suspect to whom (evidently) I owe the distinction, I will pass over in silence the fact that he is a Harvard man, and otherwise he doesn't interest me. The tendency among some intellectuals and journalists to dignify with analysis the thinking of violent criminals has always struck me as low and contemptible. I couldn't care less what the man's views on technology are or what message he intended to deliver; the message I got was that in any society, no matter how rich, just and free, you can rely on there being a certain number of evil...
...accuses me of reducing this to "a matter of white individuals merely apologizing to black individuals." In fact, I denied both individual and "collective responsibility" (my words) for slavery, of whites living in the 1990s. One might argue that financially wealthy Americans (mostly whites, some African-Americans and others) owe poor Americans (mostly African-Americans, Latinos and native Americans, some whites and others) a better "opportunity to compete equally in society," but this is not the argument Daniels makes...