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...course, the growing demand for professionals tends to mask the fact that millions of service workers remain stuck in jobs like waiter or sales clerk that pay little more than the $4.25-an-hour minimum wage. "All you have to do is hire two Goldman Sachs partners and you probably distort the average wage scale throughout the service sector," quips Bruce Greenwald, a management professor at the Columbia Business School...
...work-rule changes we're seeking are clear and straightforward. Employees will continue to work in their areas of assignment, but we need to be able, for example, to assign a waiter to an extra table when a colleague is out sick, and to have bus boys sort the silverware from the china. Unfortunately, the union's own work rules and practices simply don't permit such efficient and effective use of employees' time...
Edward F. Truettner, who has worked in the club as a waiter for about 10 years, said he could not afford to visit his aged mother, who is on dialysis, this summer...
...school in Pretoria in 1976, Carter studied pharmacy before dropping out with bad grades a year later. Without a student deferment, he was conscripted into the South African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after...
...runs some key humanitarian operations in Rwanda.WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY? Honesty, apparently. More and more Americans are willing to sell their ethics for cold cash, according to a recent MONEY magazine poll of 1,000 people. Almost a quarter of those polled said they wouldn't correct a waiter who undercharged them, a rise from 1987, when only 15 percent said they wouldn't speak up. As the stakes grow higher, the lying seems to get worse. A third admitted they would cheat on their taxes, while 23 percent would be willing to steal $10 million, if they would...