Originally Posted by BearX220

She works a ten-hour day, 30 weeks a year? How terrible for her. Perhaps she would prefer to work a twelve-hour day 49 weeks a year, like a lot of the rest of us.

Does she have to go out and drum up her own students / customers? Does her pay go down if her students do poorly on tests? Does she face any performance reviews at all that could affect her career? Does she have to work Christmas morning or the Fourth of July? Does she have to make strategic decisions, hire and fire personnel, meet quotas, or face having her job outsourced to India?

No?

Comparatively sweet deal. I wonder if she'd like to be put on commission: $200 a week, plus $100 every time a student aces the SAT. If the kids don't learn, she doesn't eat. I doubt she'd take that bet because her current arrangement insulates her from risk almost completely.

That cozy situation is one FAs and teachers alike are loath to give up. I will always remember the ill-fated employee buyout of United Airlines, years ago. Of all the worker groups, only the FAs wanted no part of it, even though the upside of the deal would have been dramatic. They wanted minimum risk and responsibility, even though it meant lower compensation. And they never stopped complaining.

With stratospheric unemployment, though, complaining ought to be going out of style. As this country goes over the falls, we ought to learn to start counting our blessings.