Panchitta Marra wrote:cpwigan wrote:Panchitta Marra wrote:
Whatever CP.
The value of a contract is relevant to a true professional and not just the money irrespective of your line of work.
No that is a view personal to you PM and not universal even in normal working life and certainly not so in the sporting world.
This is by far a personal view to me, but maybe in your eyes it is.
True, I maybe cannot argue against the sporting world as I was no better than an average athlete and amateur Rugby League player.
I have however worked allongside thousands of like for like colleagues who value their contract as it is their licence to continuity of a reasonable living.
Whatever money you are on if you ditch on the deal you dont go back and are often overlooked for other positions elsewhere. Its as simple as that.
I guess in the teaching profession it may be a bit different.
Right let's get it clear PM,
Whomever, anybody, everybody
If you have a job, your employees extract the maximum from you for as little as they can get away. Many would say and so they should.
If you hit hard times and go to your boss and say boss struggling financially at the moment, can I have some overtime to earn some more money. If I do not get money ASAP I will lose my house, my children will be homeless. No employer gives you the time of day when you ask them for help, two fingers to you life is tough. However, your employers receive a big order and need workers to do overtime then they jolly well expect it when it suits them and guess what, there will be money grabbing fellow workers who will stab you in the back to protect their right to overtime, men/women obsessed with their bank balance who will screw you rather than give a young worker with kids an even break.
So employers shaft workers and workers shaft workers. Anybody want to argue different. Guess what you are talking bollocks. I am not talking just from personal experience here (far from it) but also from generations of workers; miners, mill workers, production workers. It has never been any different and it never will. Why, human nature is to be a bastard to your fellow human beings. So any of you want to pretend otherwise. I again say bollocks. Even when people give money for charity they frequently do so disingenously.
I do not care if you work to a contract and see your contract outs. Whopee doo. I have worked to permanent and to temporary contracts. I have worked at a very high level with the most selfish, evil, bone idle high earners who would screw you without the blink of an eye.
That is the real world, dog eat dog. It is unpleasant, mean and nasty. Human beings are predisposed IMO to being mean and nasty before being kind and charitable.
Romantic bullshit about sport. I will tell you why I played sport. Yes, I enjoyed it but the enjoyment came from knowing that on a sports field it was man v man no hiding/abusing a system to shaft people behind closed doors. You could look in the eyes of another man and impose yourself on him, man to man in a truly fair contest. Hardly anywhere in life do we ever see a fair contest, a truly fair life. Sport can and should be the one place you can because you will never get it in every day life, certainly not in the work place.
So anybody wants to take a holier than thou stance I say bullshit, because that is what it is bullshit.
