Curt Fischer wrote:
> George wrote:
>>
>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ben9fc$79he3$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>> Jason Cormier wrote:
>>>> On 7/10/03 20:52, in article
>>>> bel1pq$6erpl$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de, "Kevin Gowen"
>>>> <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I hasten to add that grading papers can be done during work hours.
>>>>
>>>> A teacher's job is not only teaching classes and grading papers.
>>>> There are other things that must also be done during work hours, or
>>>> outside of them.
>>
>> Sorry to lump multiple thoughts in one post. I am an engineer and I
>> have family members who are teachers.
>>
>> As far as work hours there is no comparison. If you work as an
>> engineer 10 hour minimun days are common and it is not unusual to
>> work on Saturdays.
>
> That's funny.  When I worked at as a microelectronics process
> engineer,
> ten hour minimum days were uncommon and it was unusual to work on
> Saturdays.

Maybe you are a more efficient engineer than George and his coworkers were.
Of course, an efficient economy isn't very popular.

>> And
>> it is very usual to take work home.
>
> Where I worked it was against company policy to take most kinds of
> work
> home.

Did you work for a defense contractor such as Lockheed Martin?

>> Teaching can not be beat for a job guarantee. It is almost
>> impossible to fire a teacher and certainly not because of bad
>> performance. In the private sector it is not unusual to be out of a
>> job because of commercial considerations.
>
> This part I agree more with.  When I was in high school we had one
> teacher who wound up in a torid affair with a very beautiful, and very
> 17, student of his.  She was named Kreis.  Shortly after it became
> common to walk past this guy in the hallway and say "Hey, Mr. X, do
> you
> need an iron?  'Cause you got a Kreis in your pants...", he got fired.
>
> Later in the local papers it became apparent that the police and the
> school had known about his affair for some months.  But it was not
> until
> it became common knowledge among the student body that they had to
> fire
> him.

Ooh! Perfect example of the purpose of unions.

P.S. Do you have a jpeg of Kreis? How torrid was the affair? Tell us some of
the stories!

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"The constant loss of U.S. soldiers in Iraq--after the war is "won"--is
a tragedy. However, if this is what it takes to retire the Bush
administration at the next election, the sacrifice is justified."
- Arie L. Bleicher of Mill Valley, California, expressing leftist
respect for human life