"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<bevp52$9dms1$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> John W. wrote:
> > "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:<bev9ct$9icrg$3@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> >> John W. wrote:
> >>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:<beqbpj$7u1i9$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> >>>> John W. wrote:
> >>>>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:<ben9js$711lm$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> >>>>>> Jason Cormier wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 7/11/03 12:40, in article 3f0ee816.9877923@news.cogeco.ca,
> >>>>>>> "Greg
> >>>>>>> Macdonald" <mr_mac_daddy45@SPAMSUCKShotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't know about him, but I do. Stating that only time spent
> >>>>>>>> in
> >>>>>>>> front of a student should count as 'work' is as dumb as saying
> >>>>>>>> firefighters are only working when they are actually fighting
> >>>>>>>> fires.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ...or that a lawyer is only working when he/she is in court.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> That's why they tend to have billable hours. You know, that
> >>>>>> linking
> >>>>>> of pay
> >>>>>> to productivity that teacher unions make quite sure never comes
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>> be.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> How many people do you know that have billable hours? I've never
> >>>>> had
> >>>>> them, and none of my coworkers did either.
> >>>>
> >>>> I did not realize that you and your coworkers were lawyers.
> >>>
> >>> Ah. I figured that since you indicated teachers should have billable
> >>> hours
> >>
> >> I indicated nothing of the kind.
> >>
> > Please explain exactly what you meant when you said the following
> > because my poor public school education has obviously let me down:
> > "That's why [lawyers] tend to have billable hours. You know, that
> > linking of pay to productivity that teacher unions make quite sure
> > never comes to be."
> 
> I thought that the meaning would be obvious even to someone who received
> their primary and secondary education in a government school. However, it
> seems that I must repeat myself:
> Lawyers tend to have billable hours. Teachers unions are consistently
> against the linking of pay to productivity. I never indicated what form this
> linking should take.

Obviously your arrogance is blinding you again, this time to your own
sentence. Perhaps you should review some basic English. Or do you need
to be walked through why you're wrong?

John W.